About The Word Egress
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Egress
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What's The Definition Of Egress?
[n] the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
[n] the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [n] (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [v] come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" Synonyms | Synonyms for Egress: come forth | come out | egression | emerge | emergence | emergence | emersion | go forth | issue | issue Related Terms | Find terms related to Egress: abandonment | adit | avenue | blowhole | bow out | channel | chute | cleaning out | clearance | clearing | conduit | course | debouch | decampment | defecation | depart | departure | depletion | discharging cargo | ditch | door | drainage | draining | duct | egression | elimination | emergence | emerging | emptying | emunctory | entrance | escape | estuary | evacuation | excretion | exhaust | exhausting | exhaustion | exit | exodus | flight | floodgate | flume | get out | getaway | go out | going | hegira | ingress | leaving | loophole | make an exit | march out | off-loading | opening | out | outcome | outfall | outgate | outgo | outlet | parting | pass out | passage | passageway | passing | pore | port | removal | retirement | retreat | run out | sally port | sluice | spiracle | spout | tap | trench | trough | troughing | troughway | tunnel | unloading | vent | ventage | venthole | venting | voidance | voiding | vomitory | walk out | walkout | way | way out | weir | withdrawal See Also | all out | beginning | debouch | deed | dissilience | eclipse | effort | emanation | emission | eruption | escape | exploit | fall | feat | leak | occultation | pop out | radiate | reappearance | surfacing Egress In Webster's Dictionary \E"gress\, n. [L. egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out +
gradi to go. See {Grade}.]
1. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave;
departure.
Embarred from all egress and regress. --Holland.
Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit
all egress. --Milton.
2. (Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an
inferior planet, in a transit.
\E*gress"\, v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave. |
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