'Egress' definitions:
Definition of 'egress'
From: WordNet
noun
(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: egress, emersion] [ant: immersion, ingress]
noun
The becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn: emergence, egress, issue]
noun
verb
Come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress]
Definition of 'Egress'
From: GCIDE
- Egress \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. [1913 Webster]
- Embarred from all egress and regress. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Egress'
From: GCIDE
- Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'egress'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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