Disconnect

Examples

• Couplings in these pipes serve to quickly disconnect the engine when the run to the fire is to be made. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may prove to be little relation between the different incidents of which I speak. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• To test this we disconnected the wire between the frog and battery, and placed, instead of a vibrating sounder, a simple Morse key and a sounder taking the 'etheric' from armature. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On this, the disconnected words, and fragments of sentences, which had dropped from Mr. Candy in his delirium, appeared as follows: . Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We are dealing, the reader must bear in mind, with little disconnected patches of material, a few score all together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It depends upon a unity of purpose to which details are subordinated, not upon presenting a multitude of disconnected details. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• By electric or mechanical means it is also provided that one or more loop branches may be connected with or disconnected from the main circuit. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then he throws in the transmitting apparatus, which automatically disconnects the receiving end. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After that the dipper stayed in its place under penalty of a wrenched arm for moving it without first disconnecting the battery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Throwing off the belt and disconnecting the wires, he spun the armature around by hand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Inputed by Leslie