Apart
[ə'pɑːt] or [ə'pɑrt]
Definition
(adj.) remote and separate physically or socially; 'existed over the centuries as a world apart'; 'preserved because they inhabited a place apart'- W.H.Hudson; 'tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization'; 'an obscure village' .
(adj.) having characteristics not shared by others; 'scientists felt they were a group apart'- Vannever Bush .
(adv.) not taken into account or excluded from consideration; 'these problems apart, the country is doing well'; 'all joking aside, I think you're crazy'.
(adv.) into parts or pieces; 'he took his father's watch apart'; 'split apart'; 'torn asunder'.
(adv.) separated or at a distance in place or position or time; 'These towns are many miles apart'; 'stood with his legs apart'; 'born two years apart'.
(adv.) one from the other; 'people can't tell the twins apart'.
(adv.) away from another or others; 'they grew apart over the years'; 'kept apart from the group out of shyness'; 'decided to live apart'.
Editor: Theresa--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.
(adv.) In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.
(adv.) Aside; away.
(adv.) In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.
Edited by Bryan
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Separately, aloof, aside, by one's self, by itself.[2]. Asunder, into two parts.
Editor: Marilyn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aloof, away, separately, secret, asunder, privately, aside, secretly, separate
ANT:Close, together, united, along_with, hand_ill_hand
Checker: Thomas
Definition
adv. separately: aside: asunder parted: separate: away from all employment: out of consideration not considered for the moment (with from).—n. Apart′ness.—To set apart to separate consecrate.
Edited by Gillian
Examples
- I have my sort of life apart from yours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Small holes a few inches apart are cut along a certain length of rock, into which steel wedges are inserted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was always to her a being apart, doing what she objected to. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Jaelthe stern woman; sat apart, relenting somewhat over her captive; but more prone to dwell on the faithful expectation of Heber coming home. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We were apart as when some one comes into a room and people are self-conscious. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Although we live only two miles apart I have never been inside her aunt's house in my life. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am grieved to have to say it, but for the present, you and Rachel are better apart. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Soon the two would have to go apart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And apart from such steps and the consequent modification of the situation, there is no completion of the act of thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We each are young, we each have a heart, Oh, why should we stand thus coldly apart? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But, according to the success with which you put this and that together, you get a woman and a fish apart, or a Mermaid in combination. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Conscience, and honour, and the most despotic necessity dragged me apart from her, and kept me sundered with ponderous fetters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These are at the same distance apart that the thickness of the strip is required to be. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was careful to cut the sticks of the proper width, so that the letters would not be too far apart when they should be used for printing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This gives a much increased field, and also an increased stereoscopic effect, or conception of relative distance, by having the object glasses wider apart than the eyes of the observer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We were so absorbed in one another we were of no mortal use apart, and that charming arrangement would make everything easy all round, so we did it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is time lost, muttered Cedric apart and impatiently, to speak to him of aught else but that which concerns his appetite! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This evening was set apart for dancing, and Fanny and Julia being the very best dancers in the room were in their glory. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His name was familiar to me, for many years ago my parents were acquainted with him, but they drifted apart. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Most of the sands which we find on the beaches and in other places are the ruins of rocks which have come apart, usually as the result of the action of water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And will continue friends apart, said Estella. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The poles were two hundred feet apart and could barely hold up a wash-line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She would sit apart from us and watch him; she would weep for joy to think that he was hers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Apart from his friendship for me, it would be against his own interests to play false, as he would then never be able to marry Eunice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I took the next opportunity; which was when she was waiting for Mrs. Blandley to take her home, and was sitting apart among some flowers, ready to go. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- By this means the marks may be impressed on the paper at distances of 400 miles or more apart. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Apart from work they were isolated, free to do as they liked. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Gillian