What's the difference between departure and exodus?

Departure


Definition:

  • (n.) Division; separation; putting away.
  • (n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
  • (n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
  • (n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
  • (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
  • (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
  • (2) The unidirectional Cl- fluxes may have significant contributions from both the transcellular and paracellular pathways, with the direction of departure from predicted values being consistent with the presence of Cl- exchange diffusion.
  • (3) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
  • (4) At higher concentrations of burimamide, inhibition curves showed distinct evidence of departure from competitive character for both guinea pig and rabbit atria.
  • (5) The main findings of the study in comparison with the control group were: Mean OCC residue levels in blood were slightly higher in group A and markedly so in group B; The variability and the extent of departure from normality of distributions of organochlorine insecticides (OCIs) decreased, whereas those of PCBs increased, in arteriosclerotic patients (more markedly in group B); The degree of correlation between blood serum levels of various OCCs was elevated in group A and low in group B.
  • (6) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
  • (7) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (8) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
  • (9) The departure of Emmerson – who said in a statement that no allegations had been put to him – is a huge blow.
  • (10) The model assumption that there are no second- or higher-order interactions was tested in the 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 table of twin by disease outcomes without revealing strong evidence of departure, even in this large data set.
  • (11) Four non-executive directors have now announced their departure.
  • (12) Yes, Shine, the company she set up after a controversial departure from Sky, was helped by an output deal with that branch of the family firm.
  • (13) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
  • (14) With Hilton's departure to the US, Coulson's role is likely to become even more important.
  • (15) The 24-year-old becomes Alan Pardew’s fifth signing of the summer and offers much-needed support up front after the departures of the loan signing Loic Rémy and the out-of-contract Shola Ameobi.
  • (16) The killings set the stage for the departure of former president Viktor Yanukovych, the installation of the new government, the Russian incursion in Crimea and Ukraine's current crisis.
  • (17) Taking the results of this first series as a point of departure, the next experiment focussed on the possible masking influence of friction noise on the perception of a preceding stop.
  • (18) However, the dihybrid cross with linkage group I marker maroon showed a highly significant departure from 39:13:9:3 ratio.
  • (19) He told me it was a difficult moment because of the departure of André, who is a friend of his, and that we had to look ahead.
  • (20) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.

Exodus


Definition:

  • (n.) A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.
  • (n.) The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The protests have sparked an exodus of Chinese nationals, many of whom have fled to neighbouring countries or further.
  • (2) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
  • (3) More than 50,000 civilians have joined a growing exodus from east Aleppo, a human rights monitor has said, as the UN security council prepares to hold emergency talks on fighting in the Syrian city.
  • (4) The addition of NH4+ or CH3NH3+ induced a rapid exodus of intracellular 86Rb+, an analog which was able to substitute for K+.
  • (5) Sunday's exodus further partitions the country, a process that has been under way since January, when a Muslim rebel government gave up power nearly a year after overthrowing the president of a decade.
  • (6) Brain drain, the exodus of highly trained professionals from developing countries to better paying jobs in the developed world, threatens the structure of community health care in those developing countries.
  • (7) This concept has huge implications, in particular the need to redress the balance of two generations' legacy of car-based planning: the devastating effect on our inner city areas - which have seen a mass exodus to the suburbs - cannot be ignored.
  • (8) White House faces exodus of foreign policy experts ahead of Trump's arrival Read more Obama also said he told Putin to “cut it out” – a month before the first release of hacked Democratic party emails by WikiLeaks.
  • (9) Unless we cut the red tape, the exodus will continue to the point of unsustainability.
  • (10) The exodus followed clashes in Assam in recent weeks between members of the indigenous Bodo tribe and Muslims that left more than 50 deaths and left 400,000 in displacement camps.
  • (11) Initial rates of AIB entry and exodus increased with increases in the pH of the incubation medium over the range 6.5-8.0.
  • (12) An exodus of glycogen granules into the hepatic spaces of Disse and sinusoids suggests that the viruses have injured the plasma membranes as well as the mitochondria of hepatocytes.
  • (13) The exodus is being led by young people, who are abandoning ageing towns and villages that were afflicted by economic decline and depopulation long before the disaster.
  • (14) Amnesty International has called it "ethnic cleansing" and warned of a " Muslim exodus of historic proportions ".
  • (15) People don’t understand trade policies,” said José Arroyo, who has been working with the United Steelworkers to stem the exodus of Democratic voters around Youngstown, an Ohio city surrounded by abandoned, crumbling factories.
  • (16) The exodus began as Isis fighters seized control of 60 Kurdish villages near the border in a two-day campaign as they approach the town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab.
  • (17) On Monday Netflix reported that 810,000 subscribers had left the business in the third quarter and said the customer exodus is set to continue until December.
  • (18) Its head, Angela Knight, today reiterated City fears over a banking exodus.
  • (19) Titled Exodus, Scott's film will feature Christian Bale as the Jewish seer who leads the children of Israel out of Egypt to freedom in the promised land of Canaan.
  • (20) The campaign to oust Isis from Mosul could trigger an exodus of up to a million civilians into Iraqi Kurdistan, and risks overwhelming a region already strained to “near breaking point” by multiple crises, internal government documents seen by the Observer reveal.