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em·bark    Audio Help   [em-bahrk] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used without object)
1.to board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, as for a journey.
2.to start an enterprise, business, etc.
–verb (used with object)
3.to put or receive on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
4.to involve (someone) in an enterprise.
5.to venture or invest (something) in an enterprise.

[Origin: 1540–50; < MF embarquer < Sp embarcar, equiv. to em- em-1 + -barcar, v. deriv. of barca bark3]
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em·bark    Audio Help   (ěm-bärk')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   em·barked, em·bark·ing, em·barks

v.   tr.
  1. To cause to board a vessel or aircraft: stopped to embark passengers.
  2. To enlist (a person or persons) or invest (capital) in an enterprise.

v.   intr.
  1. To go aboard a vessel or aircraft, as at the start of a journey.
  2. To set out on a venture; commence: embark on a world tour.


[French embarquer, from Late Old French, probably from Medieval Latin imbarcāre : Latin in-, in- + barca, boat.]

em'bar·ka'tion, em·bark'ment n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
embark 
1550, from M.Fr. embarquer, from barque "small ship" (see bark (n.)).

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embark

verb
1. go on board [ant: debark
2. set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career" 
3. proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; "We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer" [syn: venture

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embark [imˈbaːk] verb
to go, or put, on board ship
Example: Passengers should embark early.
Arabic: يَرْكَبُ سَفينَةُ
Chinese (Simplified): 上(船、飞机等)
Chinese (Traditional): 上(船、飛機等)
Czech: nalodit (se)
Danish: gå ombord
Dutch: aan boord gaan
Estonian: laevale minema, lastima
Finnish: astua laivaan, viedä laivaan
French: (s')embarquer
German: sich einschiffen
Greek: επιβιβάζομαι
Hungarian: behajóz
Icelandic: setja, *fara um borð
Indonesian: naik kapal
Italian: imbarcare, imbarcarsi
Japanese: 乗船する
Korean: 승선하다; 탑승시키다
Latvian: kraut kuģī; kāpt uz kuģa
Lithuanian: sėsti, *sodinti į laivą
Norwegian: gå om bord, ta om bord
Polish: wsiadać na statek
Portuguese (Brazil): embarcar
Portuguese (Portugal): embarcar
Romanian: a (se) îmbarca
Russian: садиться на корабль
Slovak: nalodiť (sa)
Slovenian: vkrcati (se)
Spanish: embarcar
Swedish: gå (ta) ombord
Turkish: binmek
See also: embark on

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Embark

Em*bark"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embarking.] [F. embarquer; pref. em- (L. in) + barque bark: cf. Sp. embarcar, It. imbarcare. See Bark. a vessel.]

1. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

2. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.

It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. --South.
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Embark

Em*bark"\, v. i. 1. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

2. To engage in any affair.

Slow to embark in such an undertaking. --Macaulay.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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