departure vs withdrawal

departure

noun
  • The act of departing or something that has departed. 

  • A deviation from a plan or procedure. 

  • There are several significant departures, however, from current practice. 

  • The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian. 

  • The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve. 

  • The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another 

  • A death. 

withdrawal

noun
  • An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn. 

  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation. 

  • The sum of money taken from a bank account. 

  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money. 

  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier. 

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