different between outgang vs egress

English

Etymology

From Middle English outgang, from Old English ?tgang (“an outgoing, exit”), from Proto-Germanic *?tgangaz, equivalent to out- +? gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?t?æ?/

Noun

outgang (plural outgangs)

1. An exit or egress.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:outgang.

2. The act of giving up occupancy of property.
3. An outgate; a cattle-gate.
   • 1841, The history and antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness:

     Sit William Saunders, priest, gave as follows:—for the repair of the church windows, bridges for a church road, bell ropes, &c., church balke, [...] dam, and dam bridge, and outgang, [...] outgang between White Hall Close and Mill Hill Close [...]

   • 1896, Thomas Blashill, Sutton-in-Holderness: The manor, the berewic, and the village community:

     An ordinary outgang was a place where the cattle of a village assembled, when they were to be driven out together to ... This outgang seems to have run between the old enclosed lands and the southern part of the West Carr or Marsh [...]

   • 1902, Doncaster (England), A calendar to the records of the borough of Doncaster:

     A "bounder" of certain land belonging to the corporation of Doncaster in the occupation of John Lambe, minister of Rossington viz. a laithe or barn in the outgang next the town street, the upper outgang and the nether outgang, and land in the Church field, the Ing field and the Park field.

Related terms

• ingang

Anagrams

• gnu goat

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ?tgang (“an outgoing, exit”), from Proto-Germanic *?tgangaz.

Noun

outgang (plural outgangs)

1. An exit

Related terms

• ingang
• misgang

Descendants

• English: outgang
• Scots: outgang

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English outgang, from Old English ?tgang (“an outgoing, exit”), from Proto-Germanic *?tgangaz.

Noun

outgang (plural outgangs)

1. A going out, departure
2. (commercial) a departure of goods by way of exportation; the duty applied to exported goods, export duty
3. An egress, exit; a means of escape
4. An outgate

References

• “outgang”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714

English

Etymology 1

From Latin ?gressus, from ex- + gressus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??gr?s, IPA^(key): /?i????s/

Noun

egress (countable and uncountable, plural egresses)

1. An exit or way out.
   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

2. The process of exiting or leaving.
3. (astronomy) The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.

Synonyms

• (exit): exit, way out, outgang
• (process of exiting): departure, exit, exiting, leaving

Antonyms

• (exit): entrance, ingress, way in
• (process of exiting): entering, entrance

Coordinate terms

• (permission): ingress, egress, regress

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin egressum, past participle egredi.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-gr?s?, IPA^(key): /?????s/

Verb

egress (third-person singular simple present egresses, present participle egressing, simple past and past participle egressed)

1. (intransitive) To exit or leave; to go or come out.

Synonyms

• (exit): come out, depart, exit, go out, leave

Antonyms

• (exit): come in, enter, go in

Anagrams

• Segers, serges