Meaning of EGRESS
| Pronunciation: | | [n]'eegres, [v]i'gres, 'eegres
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | come forth, come out, egression, emerge, emergence, emergence, emersion, go forth, issue, issue |
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| | Antonyms: | | immersion, ingress | | |
| | See Also: | | all out, beginning, debouch, deed, dissilience, eclipse, effort, emanation, emission, eruption, escape, exploit, fall, feat, leak, occultation, pop out, radiate, reappearance, surfacing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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