depart

«depart» in Mova's school dictionary: To leave, especially to start a journey — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (depart, departs, departed, departing)

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To leave, especially to start a journey. tree →

2) depart from: to do something different from what is usual or planned. tree →

3) (euphemism) the departed: people who have died. tree →

sense in the lessons

In travel and time problems: "the train departs at 9:40 and arrives at 11:05". Departure boards at stations and airports. Phrases: depart from, departure time, the dear departed (euphemism).

examples

• The train departs at 9:40. tree →
• The bus departed from the station late. tree →
• Flights depart from gate 12. tree →
• If the train departs at 2:15 and takes 50 minutes, when does it arrive? At 3:05. tree →
• We departed early to beat the traffic. tree →
• (euphemism) We remember our dear departed grandad. tree →
• I also love her, but tomorrow I depart. tree →

note

Noun: departure. Opposite: arrive (arrival). Formal; everyday word: "leave". Maths: journey time = arrival time − departure time. "Departed" about a person is a soft way of saying "dead".

In the corpora

• "Departed this life" means died; it is old-fashioned and found on old gravestones.
• "The departed" means the dead person or the dead people; it is polite.
• "The dearly departed" means the dead; it is polite and is sometimes used jokingly.
• And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
• And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «depart» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.