different between departure vs seclusion

English

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p??(?)tj?(?)/, /d??p??(?)t???(?)/

Noun

departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.
2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     any departure from a national standard

   There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.

3. (euphemistic) A death.
   • His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

4. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
5. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

6. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

7. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

Synonyms

• leaving

Antonyms

• arrival

Related terms

• depart
• departure lounge
• departure tax

Translations

Further reading

• departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• apertured

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, from Latin seclusio, from secludere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??klu???n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

seclusion (countable and uncountable, plural seclusions)

1. The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
2. The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
3. A secluded, isolated or private place.
4. (meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.

Related terms

• seclude
• secluse
• secluseness
• seclusionist
• seclusive

Translations

References

• seclusion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• leucosins