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TO TAKE A DEPARTURE

Definition: TO TAKE A DEPARTURE

TO TAKE A DEPARTURE

1. (Nav. & Surv.), 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. Syn: Death; demise; release. See Death .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Alternative Orthography: TO TAKE A DEPARTURE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      54 41 4B 45      41      44 45 50 41 52 54 55 52 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001011 01000101 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000100 01000101 01010000 01000001 01010010 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#80 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#85 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0054 0041 004B 0045      0041      0044 0045 0050 0041 0052 0054 0055 0052 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492543545392352383950355254555239

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