The difference between Egress and Regress

When used as nouns, egress means an exit or way out, whereas regress means the act of passing back.

When used as verbs, egress means to exit or leave, whereas regress means to move backwards to an earlier stage.

check bellow for the other definitions of Egress and Regress

  1. Egress as a noun:

    An exit or way out.

    Examples:

    "The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency."

  2. Egress as a noun:

    The process of exiting or leaving.

  3. Egress as a noun (astronomy):

    The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.

  1. Egress as a verb (intransitive):

    To exit or leave; to go or come out.

  1. Regress as a noun:

    The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.

  2. Regress as a noun:

    The power or liberty of passing back.

  3. Regress as a noun:

    In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

  1. Regress as a verb (intransitive):

    To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.

  2. Regress as a verb (intransitive, astronomy):

    To move from east to west.

  3. Regress as a verb (transitive, statistics):

    To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

    Examples:

    "When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."

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