Quit vs. Leave — What's the Difference?

To cease or discontinue

Go away from

To resign from or relinquish

Allow or cause to remain

To depart from; leave

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

To leave the company of

(of a plant) put out new leaves

(Computers) To exit (an application).

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

To rid oneself of by paying

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

To release from a burden or responsibility.

Permission

(Archaic) To conduct (oneself) in a specified way

To go out of or away from

To cease an action or cease working properly; stop

To go without taking or removing

To abandon an activity out of frustration or despair; give up

To omit or exclude

To resign from or leave a job.

To have as a result, consequence, or remainder

Absolved of a duty or an obligation; free.

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

(usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

To have remaining after death

To pay (a debt, fine etc.).

To bequeath

To repay (someone) for (something).

To give over to another to control or act on

To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

To abandon or forsake

To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).

To remove oneself from association with or participation in

To carry through; to go through to the end.

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

(transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

To cause or permit to be or remain

(transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

(Nonstandard) To allow or permit; let.

(transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).

To set out or depart; go

(transitive) To leave (a place).

To put forth foliage; leaf.

To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

Permission to do something.

To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).

An act of departing; a farewell

To close (an application).

See leave of absence.

Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

To have a consequence or remnant.

Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

(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.

Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.

To cause, to result in.

To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

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

To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.

To depart; to separate from.

To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.

To let be or do without interference.

To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; - used reflexively.

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

To carry through; to go through to the end.

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

To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.

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

To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

To transfer something.

Put an end to a state or an activity;

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

Give up or retire from a position;

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

Go away or leave

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

Turn away from; give up;

To remain (behind); to stay.

Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat;

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;