Egress
['iːgres] or ['iɡrɛs]
Definition
(noun.) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent.
(noun.) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse.
Checker: Mattie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
(n.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
(v. i.) To go out; to depart; to leave.
Checker: Melva
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Exit, departure, going out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exit, departure, sally, outlet
ANT:Adit, inlet, approach, avenue, entrance
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Definition
n. act of going out: departure: the way out: the power or right to depart.—n. Egres′sion the act of going out.
Checker: Roy
Examples
- The lodge-door was like a common garden-door; on one side of it were great closed gates for the ingress and egress of lorries and wagons. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Until Margaret had learnt the times of their ingress and egress, she was very unfortunate in constantly falling in with them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I was unwilling to disturb his labours, and waited, watching the ingress and egress of the petitioners. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The royal carriages again attempt egress--though for trial merely; they are again driven in by Lecointres patrols. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Massive gates gave egress upon a small plain, surrounded by the same gorgeous forests that I had seen at the foot of the Golden Cliffs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This tunnel and the western pass are the only modes of ingress and egress, as I have explained. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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