Porridge vs. Congee

A soft food made by boiling oatmeal or another meal in water or milk.

Variant of congé.

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

A traditional Asian rice porridge.

Oatmeal porridge.

Formal or authoritative permission to depart.

Rice porridge; congee.

An abrupt dismissal.

A prison sentence.

A leave-taking.

(rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

A formal bow.

A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

(Architecture) A concave molding.

Soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick

Leave, formal permission for some action, :

(obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.

(obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; originally & particularly humorously ironic abrupt dismissal without ceremony.

(obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.

A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.

(archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.

A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

(archaic) To give congee, particularly

To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.

To give formal permission to do something; to license.

(archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.

(archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.

See Congé, Conge.

Boiled rice; rice gruel.

A jail; a lockup.

A Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast

Depart after obtaining formal permission;

Perform a ceremonious bow