EGRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does egress mean? 

• EGRESS (noun)
  The noun EGRESS has 3 senses:

1. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

2. the becoming visible

3. the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

  Familiarity information: EGRESS used as a noun is uncommon.

• EGRESS (verb)
  The verb EGRESS has 1 sense:

1. come out of

  Familiarity information: EGRESS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EGRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

egress; emersion

Hypernyms ("egress" is a kind of...):

reappearance (the event of something appearing again)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Holonyms ("egress" is a part of...):

eclipse; occultation (one celestial body obscures another)

Antonym:

ingress ((astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The becoming visible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

egress; emergence; issue

Context example:

not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins

Hypernyms ("egress" is a kind of...):

beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "egress"):

eruption (the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum)

dissilience (the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe)

Derivation:

egress (come out of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

egress; egression; emergence

Hypernyms ("egress" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "egress"):

surfacing (emerging to the surface and becoming apparent)

emanation; emission (the act of emitting; causing to flow forth)

Derivation:

egress (come out of)

• EGRESS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they egress    ... he / she / it egresses   
Past simple: egressed   
Past participle: egressed   
-ing form: egressing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come out of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue

Context example:

The words seemed to come out by themselves

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "egress"):

pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)

radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)

leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)

escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)

fall (come out; issue)

debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)

come out; fall out (come off)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

egress (the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent)

egress (the becoming visible)

egression (the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent)

 Context examples 

IL-5 travels to the bone marrow and regulates the differentiation and egress of eosinophils from the bone marrow into the blood.

(Asthma Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)