Leave vs. Desert — What's the Difference?

Go away from

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation.

Allow or cause to remain

Abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous

Cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state or position

A waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand

(of a plant) put out new leaves

A flock of lapwings

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

Like a desert

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces

A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.

Permission

A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.

To go out of or away from

An apparently lifeless area of water.

To go without taking or removing

An empty or forsaken place; a wasteland

To omit or exclude

(Archaic) A wild and uninhabited region.

To have as a result, consequence, or remainder

Often deserts Something that is deserved or merited, especially a punishment

To cause or allow to be or remain in a specified state

The state or fact of deserving reward or punishment.

To have remaining after death

Of, relating to, characteristic of, or inhabiting a desert

To bequeath

Wild and uninhabited

To give over to another to control or act on

To leave empty or alone; abandon.

To abandon or forsake

To withdraw from, especially in spite of a responsibility or duty; forsake

To remove oneself from association with or participation in

To abandon (a military post, for example) in violation of orders or an oath.

To give or deposit, as for use or information, upon one's departure or in one's absence

To forsake one's duty or post, especially to be absent without leave from the armed forces with no intention of returning.

To cause or permit to be or remain

That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.

(Nonstandard) To allow or permit; let.

A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.

To set out or depart; go

(figuratively) Any barren place or situation.

To put forth foliage; leaf.

Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.

Permission to do something.

To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.

An act of departing; a farewell

To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

See leave of absence.

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

To have a consequence or remnant.

A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa which are destitute of moisture and vegetation.

(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.

To cause, to result in.

Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; - implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.

To depart; to separate from.

To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.

To let be or do without interference.

To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

An arid region with little or no vegetation

(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;

(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army;

To transfer something.

Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

To remain (behind); to stay.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

To produce leaves or foliage.

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

Permission.

(dated) Farewell, departure.

To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.

To raise; to levy.

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit - with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

To cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.

To depart; to set out.

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; - used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty;

Permission to do something;

The act of departing politely;

Go away from a place;

Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness;

Act or be so as to become in a specified state;

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

Move out of or depart from;

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Result in;

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

Put into the care or protection of someone;

Leave or give by will after one's death;

Have left or have as a remainder;

Be survived by after one's death;

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Leave behind unintentionally;