different between departure vs shelter

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

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Further reading

• departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• apertured

English

Etymology

From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English s?ildtruma, s?yldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from s?yld, s?ield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Noun

shelter (plural shelters)

1. A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
2. An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women etc.

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Translations

Verb

shelter (third-person singular simple present shelters, present participle sheltering, simple past and past participle sheltered)

1. (transitive) To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
   • 1663, John Dryden, Epistle to Dr. Charleton

     Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

     You have no convents […] in which such persons may be received and sheltered.

2. (intransitive) To take cover.

   During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ehlerts, Hertels, Shetler, helters, three Ls