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What is different between going away and going out?



 
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What is different between going away and going out? #1 (permalink) Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:31 am   What is different between going away and going out?
 

What is different between going away and going out?
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What is different between going away and going out? #2 (permalink) Sun Nov 16, 2008 14:51 pm   What is different between going away and going out?
 

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'Going away' is a linear distance, becoming farther and farther from the starting point.
'Going out' is moving from inside to outside an enclosure.

Both probably appear in other idiomatic or metaphoric uses.
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