Definition of apart in English English dictionary
- Aside; away
Let Pleasure go, put Care apart.
- In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently
Consider the two propositions apart.
- apart from
A handful of examples apart, an English preposition precedes its complement.
- In two or more parts; asunder; to piece
to take a piece of machinery apart.
- Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside
The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.
- {a} Separately, distinctly, at a distance, aside
- away from another or others; "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart"
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- having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing"
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- 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"
- 1 Movement away from partner or one foot away from the other 2 Placement of feet apart from each other (2nd position)
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- not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"
- away from another or others; "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart
- into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder"
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy"
- {e} besides, but, excluding
- Aside; away. ``Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. --Jas. i. 21
- 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"
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy" into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder" 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" one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart" away from another or others; "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart
- In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart
- separately; aside; into pieces
- 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
- one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart"
- apart from
- except for; besides
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? - Life of Brian.
- apart 1
- If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things. What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes from northern Thailand
- apart 1
- When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other. He was standing a bit apart from the rest of us, watching us Ray and sister Renee lived just 25 miles apart from each other. regions that were too far apart to have any way of knowing about each other
- apart 1
- If you can't tell two people or things apart, they look exactly the same to you. I can still only tell Mark and Dave apart by the colour of their shoes!
- apart 1
- If two people are apart, they are no longer living together or spending time together, either permanently or just for a short time. It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days Mum and Dad live apart
- apart 1
- If you take something apart, you separate it into the pieces that it is made of. If it comes or falls apart, its parts separate from each other. When the clock stopped he took it apart to find out what was wrong Many school buildings are unsafe, and some are falling apart
- apart 1
- If people or groups are a long way apart on a particular topic or issue, they have completely different views and disagree about it. Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart
- apart 1
- If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other. John and Isabelle moved apart, back into the sun He tried in vain to keep the two dogs apart before the neighbour intervened
- apart 1
- If something such as an organization or relationship falls apart, or if something tears it apart, it can no longer continue because it has serious difficulties. Any manager knows that his company will start falling apart if his attention wanders
- apart 1
- apart POSITIONS AND STATES ; In addition to the uses shown below, apart is used in phrasal verbs such as `grow apart' and `take apart'
- apart 2
- You use apart from when you are making an exception to a general statement. She was the only British competitor apart from Richard Meade
- apart 2
- You use apart from to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect. Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who can't read or write is unlikely to get a job
- apart 2
- You use apart when you are making an exception to a general statement. This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown. = excepted
- apart from
- With the exception of; besides: Apart from a few scratches, the car was undamaged
- apart from
- besides, except for, in addition to
- apart(p)
- Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
- apart(p)
- having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated
- apart(p)
- Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated
- apart(p)
- remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W
- apartment
- A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom
By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
- fall apart
- To be emotionally in crisis
As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart.
- fall apart
- To break into pieces through being in a dilapidated state
My old briefcase is falling apart. I'll have to buy a new one.
- pick apart
- to defeat crushingly
- pick apart
- to criticise (especially small details)
- pick apart
- to review or analyse in great detail
- poles apart
- totally opposite
Two city living however has its own flipside, not the least the difficulty straddling the two different cultures of two cities that are poles apart.
- pull apart
- to open something by pulling on various parts of it
- set apart
- To select something or someone for a specific purpose
- set apart
- To separate or isolate
- take apart
- to dismantle something into it's component pieces
I carefully took the clock mechanism apart to clean it.
- take apart
- to soundly defeat someone, or a team
And besides, I was also enjoying the way you took them apart. You know, arguing with them like you did.
- take apart
- to move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private
then went close up to him, and took him apart into a dark corner. I say, he began, with a thoughtful brow, haven't I seen you before?.
- take apart
- to criticise someone
For nearly an hour, I took them apart for failing to understand, connect with, empathize with, and listen to the American people.
- tear apart
- to destroy
The bomb tore apart most of the town hall.
- tear apart
- to tear or rip something to cause it to come apart
She tore her ex-boyfriend’s clothes apart in fury.
- tear apart
- to cause to separate
Love, love will tear us apart again.
- tear apart
- to severely defeat
- tell apart
- To be able to know the difference between things; to distinguish
They are identical twins, and if they dress the same, everybody has trouble telling them apart.
- worlds apart
- Vastly different
In terms of technology, today's media and that of the 19th century are worlds apart, but they still serve the same purpose.
- apart from
- barring
- grow apart
- If people who have a close relationship grow apart, they gradually start to have different interests and opinions from each other, and their relationship starts to fail. He and his wife grew apart It sounds as if you have grown apart from Tom
- apartment
- {n} a part of a house, a distinct room
- fall apart
- Lose one's capacity to cope
- fall apart
- Become to not work properly. "The equipment fell apart about six months after I bought it."
- fall apart at the seams
- (deyim) Be in a very poor condition and near to collapse
- rip apart
- Rip to shreds, tear apart, pull to pieces
- rip apart
- Tear or pull something to pieces. "He was ripped apart by savage beasts in the forest."
- tear apart
- Rip to shreds, rip apart, pull to pieces
- Apartment
- Means a part of any property, intended for any type of independent use, including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces located on one or more floors or any; part or parts thereof, in a multi-storeyed building to be used for residence or office or for the practice of any profession or for the carrying on of any occupation, trade or for business or such other type of independent use as may be prescribed, and with a direct exit to a public street, road or highway or to a common area leading to such street, road or highway, and includes any garage or room (whether or not adjacent to the multi-storeyed building in which such apartment is located) provided by the promoter for use by the owner of such an apartment for parking any vehicle or as the case may be for the residence of any domestic aide employed in such an apartment
- Apartment
- A flat or a similar dwelling
- Apartment
- A complete and separate rental living unit in a building containing other units [OTS]
- Apartment
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- Apartment
- This type of dwelling includes dwelling units in apartment blocks or apartment hotels; flats in duplexes or triplexes (i e , where the division between dwelling units is horizontal); suites in structurally converted houses; living quarters located above or in the rear of stores, restaurants, garages or other business premises; janitors quarters in schools, churches, warehouses, etc ; and private quarters for employees in hospitals or other types of institutions
- Apartment
- n apartemen
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- 2 to3 1 $1 200 $900
- Apartment
- A general term for an area within a machine where a guest program, with its own interests, can privately prepare to interact with other interests on the same machine Apartments come in a variety of forms with various security properties protecting both host and guest Mentioned here and here
- Apartment
- A suite of rooms, with or without cooking facilities used for living purposes Each such suite of rooms having cooking facilities shall constitute a dwelling unit
- Things Fall Apart
- a novel by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe about the problems experienced by traditional African societies as their way of life changes in the 20th century. It was one of the first African novels to become well known in Europe and the US (1958)
- a breed apart
- totally different (in actions, looks, way of thinking, etc.)
- apartment
- A compartment
- apartment
- A complete domicile occupying only part of a building
- apartment
- A set or suite of rooms
- apartment
- A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
- apartment
- A suite of rooms, within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons, and including a bedroom
- apartment
- A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions
- apartment
- An apartment is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building. bleak cities of concrete apartment blocks
- apartment
- {i} flat, living area within a building, flat in an apartment building; apartment building
- apartments
- plural of apartment
- apartments
- {i} (British) suite of adjacent rooms in a building or in an hotel; suite of rooms used as a residence by one family or one person
- break apart
- break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"
- broke apart
- were separated from one another, lost contact with each other
- came apart
- collapsed, fell down, broke down, break into pieces or fragments
- come apart
- collapse, fall down, break down
- come apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
- drift apart
- lose personal contact over time; "The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married
- fall apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
- fall apart
- break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"
- fall apart
- lose one's emotional or mental composure; "She fell apart when her only child died
- fall apart
- lose one's emotional or mental composure; "She fell apart when her only child died"
- fall apart
- If you say that someone is falling apart, you mean that they are becoming emotionally disturbed and are unable to think calmly or to deal with the difficult or unpleasant situation that they are in. I was falling apart. I wasn't getting any sleep. = crack up
- fall apart
- {f} lose one's emotional self-control; suffer an emotional crisis, have a break down; break down into pieces
- fall apart
- go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
- fall apart
- If an organization or system falls apart, it becomes disorganized or unable to work effectively, or breaks up into its different parts. Europe's monetary system is falling apart I've tried everything to stop our marriage falling apart. = break down
- his world fell apart
- his world was shattered
- joking apart
- seriously, really, without joking, joking aside
- keep apart
- segregate oneself, keep away, keep at a distance
- keep apart
- set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
- living apart together
- {i} situation when a couple that is not married lives in separate homes but has an intimate relationship
- pick apart
- find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"
- pick apart
- rip into pieces, tear apart; give harsh criticism
- pull apart
- separate into pieces; severely criticize
- rift apart
- crack, cleave, split open
- rip apart
- rip into pieces
- set apart
- If a characteristic sets you apart from other people, it makes you different from the others in a noticeable way. What sets it apart from hundreds of similar small French towns is the huge factory Li blends right into the crowd of teenagers. Only his accent sets him apart
- set apart
- set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
- set apart
- select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
- take apart
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
- take apart
- disassemble, dismantle
- take apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- take apart
- If you take apart something such as an argument or an idea, you show what its weaknesses are, usually by analyzing it carefully. They will take that problem apart and analyze it in great detail He proceeds to take apart every preconception anyone might have ever had about him
- taken apart
- stricken, hit, beat
- tear apart
- If something tears people apart, it causes them to quarrel or to leave each other. War and revolution have torn families apart
- tear apart
- express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance"
- tear apart
- If something tears you apart, it makes you feel very upset, worried, and unhappy. Don't think it hasn't torn me apart to be away from you
- tearing apart
- ripping, shredding, pulling into pieces
- tell apart
- {f} know the difference between, distinguish
- tell apart
- mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- tell them apart
- be able to know the difference between two people
- tore apart
- ripped to shreds, ripped apart, pulled to pieces