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the moment the gangplank turns from metaphor into a one-way verb
means The act of boarding a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle to begin a journey, especially the formal process of loading passengers or troops.
from From the French 'embarquer,' to put aboard a ship — built from 'en-' (into) and 'barque,' a small boat, which sails back through Latin 'barca' to the wider family of vessels. The 'barque' here is the same little ship that gives us 'barge' and 'embargo,' so embarkation is literally the moment you step 'into the boat,' a sense English borrowed in the 17th century and never let off.
- word root
- from Latin barca, meaning small boat
- war scale
- D-Day embarked 156,000 troops in one day
- opposite
- disembarkation is the only word people enjoy
- point of no return
- named the embarkation point on military maps
d-day normandy landings — 156,000 allied troops landed on june 6, 1944 across five beaches in occupied france
titanic passenger boarding — 2,224 passengers and crew embarked at southampton on april 10, 1912 before the sinking
operation barbarossa — 3.8 million german troops embarked across soviet borders on june 22, 1941, largest invasion ever