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APART
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remote and separate physically or socially
Example:
an obscure village
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unconnected (not joined or linked together)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having characteristics not shared by others
Example:
scientists felt they were a group apart
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separate (independent; not united or joint)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not taken into account or excluded from consideration
Example:
all joking aside, I think you're crazy
Synonyms:
apart; aside
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Into parts or pieces
Example:
torn asunder
Synonyms:
apart; asunder
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Sense 3
Meaning:
Separated or at a distance in place or position or time
Example:
born two years apart
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Sense 4
Meaning:
One from the other
Example:
people can't tell the twins apart
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Sense 5
Meaning:
Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
Example:
a day set aside for relaxing
Synonyms:
apart; aside
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Sense 6
Meaning:
Away from another or others
Example:
decided to live apart
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Context examples:
As these first stars came to life, their light split neutral atoms apart, making the universe transparent.
(First Stars Formed Later Than We Thought, NASA)
Scientists think that dust-trapped water vapor may be riding them like an elevator to space, where solar radiation breaks apart their molecules.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
The fingers spread slightly, falling apart of their own weight, and the pencil rolled away.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Soul and body walked or crawled side by side, yet apart, so slender was the thread that bound them.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
‘Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never tell them apart.’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh no; we all felt that we were going to be only half a mile apart, and were sure of meeting every day.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
One potential explanation of the Cow is that a star has been ripped apart in what astronomers call a "tidal disruption event."
(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)
Although the newly found impact craters in northwest Greenland are only 114 miles apart, they do not appear to have been formed at the same time.
(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
EXAMPLE(S): BID = Two times per day, at unspecified times (does not necessarily imply that these are 12 hours apart)Q12H = Every twelve hours
(Planned Activity Repeat Frequency Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
