departing

English

Verb

departing

1. present participle and gerund of depart

Adjective

departing

1. That is leaving.

   a departing train

2. While leaving.

   departing words

Derived terms

• departing tone
• undeparting

Translations

that is leaving

• Finnish: lähtevä (fi)
• Spanish: partiente, zarpante

while leaving

Noun

departing (plural departings)

1. The act by which somebody or something departs.
   • 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168:

     But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

Anagrams

• pentagrid, petarding, pre-dating, predating