| depart | 1. To part; to divide; to separate. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. 2. A going away; departure; hence, death. To pass away; to perish 3. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; opposed to arrive; often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. 4. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. Origin: F. Depart, fr. Departir. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| department | 1. Act of departing; departure. "Sudden departments from one extreme to another." (Wotton) 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. "Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature." (Macaulay) 4. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics. 5. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire. 6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac. Origin: F. Departement, fr. Departir. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Department of Energy | Department within the executive branch of the U.S. Government (at the cabinet level) which has managed and overseen federally-sponsored energy research. It was formed in 1977 from the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Atomic Enegy Commission. Acronym: DOE (10 Nov 1998) |
| departmental | Pertaining to a department or division. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| departure | 1. Division; separation; putting away. "No other remedy . . . But absolute departure." (Milton) 2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. "Departure from this happy place." (Milton) 3. Removal from the present life; death; decease. "The time of my departure is at hand." (2 Tim. Iv. 6) "His timely departure . . . Barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries." (Sir P. Sidney) 4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. "Any departure from a national standard." (Prescott) 5. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. 6. <astronomy> The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course. <astronomy> To take a departure, to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook. Synonym: Death, demise, release. See Death. Origin: From Depart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| department |
a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury" the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"
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| Department of Health and Human Services |
the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979
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means the Department of Public Welfare.
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| Department of Health and Human Services |
The US government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. DHHS includes more than 300 programs, covering a wide spectrum of activities. The Department's programs are administered by 11 operating divisions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health (see the entries for these agencies). ...
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| department |
The Department of State of the Commonwealth.
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| depart | move away from a place into another direction |
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| depart | go away or leave |
| depart | leave |
| depart | wander from a direct or straight course |
| depart | remove oneself from an association with or participation in |
| depart | be at variance with |
| depart | someone who is no longer alive |
| depart | (euphemistic) "he is deceased" |
| depart | well in the past |
| depart | not present |
| depart | someone who leaves |
| depart | that is going out or leaving |
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