'Serving to separate.'에 대한 English 단어
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- Serving to separate.
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- serving or tending to divide or separate
- Tending to disjoin; separating.
- (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
- (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
- Not connected; separated.
- (logic) Of or related to a disjunction.
- (grammar, of a conjunction) Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.
- Able to be separated.
- (abstract algebra, of an algebra over a ring) Satisfying any of several technical conditions on the center of the algebra which generalize the situation of field extensions; see Separable algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (mathematics, of a differential equation) Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
- (of a polynomial) Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
- (mathematical analysis, of a topological space) Having a countable dense subset.
- (Galois theory, of an algebraic field extension E/F) Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
- capable of being divided or dissociated
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
- (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
- That divides something into parts.
- (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
- Disjoint, separate.
- Not, opposite.
- Furthest in position
- (biochemistry) An apoenzyme: an enzyme without its cofactor; associated apoproteins.
- Different, distinct.
- (organic chemisty) Derived from, or related to.
- Away from, outward, or apart in direction.
- Distant, far from, or apart in position.
- Exterior, outside of.
- To carry forth, to do.
- (astronomy) Apoapsis: the point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
- From, coming from.
- Removal, amputation.
- (biochemistry) Lacking a metallic unit.
- Lacking, without, scant.
- (transitive) To separate.
- (intransitive, politics) To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
- (transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
- separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
- divide from the main body or mass and collect
- separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
- (transitive) To set apart; separate.
- (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England, rare) To know; to understand.
- (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
- disconnect or separate
- regard as unconnected
- eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
- reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
- (transitive, military) To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.
- (ambitransitive) To unlink; to take apart or come apart.
- Independent, separate.
- (chemistry) Having an extra proportion of water.
- (crystallography) Orthorhombic crystal structure.
- Vertical or upright in movement.
- (physics) Of any molecule of the form X₂ in which the two nuclei have parallel spin.
- (organic chemistry) In isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in adjacent (1,2) positions (compare meta- and para-).
- Original, primary.
- Normal, ordinary.
- Right angle, perpendicular.
- Proper, righteous, pure.
- (medicine) Orthopaedics.
- Same, from the same.
- Parallel lines or columns.
- To correct or fix.
- Straight in form.
- (geology) Igneous.
- cause to separate
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- make a break in
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- cause to separate
- cause to become widely known
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- distribute loosely
- strew or distribute over an area
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- disentangle
- tangle or complicate
- (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- disentangle
- become undone
- become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
- Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.
- (also reflexive) To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out.
- To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).
- To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.
- To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
- (figurative) Of a thing: to have its connected or united parts separated; to be thrown into disorder; to become confused or undone; to collapse.
- To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.
- (agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
- (informal, derogatory, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
- (derogatory, slang) A group of like-minded individuals who are not exposed to outside opinions or input.
- (computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
- (agriculture) From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
- (military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
- (informal, derogatory, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
- military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired
- a cylindrical tower used for storing silage
- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- Indicating removal or separation.
- Indicating exclusion.
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
- Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- Indicating differentiation.
- (MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- (mathematics, chiefly British, not in formal use) Denoting a subtraction operation.
- Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
- (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
- (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
- A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
- distinguish and separate out
- move as if through a sieve
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- check and sort carefully
- (transitive) To sieve or strain (something).
- (transitive) [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
- (transitive) To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- To become detached.
- (obsolete?) To come away (from a place); to leave.
- (intransitive) To stop playing (music).
- (transitive) To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something).
- To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.
- To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
- To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
- To have some success; to succeed.
- come to be detached
- happen in a particular manner
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- distinct or separate
- differing from all others; not ordinary
- distinctly separate from the first
- unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
- Unlike most others; unusual.
- Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
- Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
- Various, assorted, diverse.
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate into parts or portions
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
- (transitive) To disentangle.
- (transitive, figurative) To counteract fate.
- (transitive) To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven).
- To happen; to unfold; to develop.
- To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc.
- (ambitransitive) To untwist (something that is twisted or wound)
- To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting.
- (ambiintransitive) To stop (something) from spinning.
- (transitive) To unmake.
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- away from another or others
- one from the other
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- into parts or pieces
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- coming apart
- the distance between things
- sorting one thing from others
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- the social act of separating or parting company
- the state of lacking unity
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
- (law) An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
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- Separation for practical reasons, by necessity.
- the act of segregating or sequestering
- The separation of a subset of prisoners from the general prison population, possibly solitary confinement.
- (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions.
- (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
- (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
- (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
- (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
- The act of setting apart and organizing things based upon their characteristics.
- a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
- Serving to separate.
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- coming apart
- the distance between things
- sorting one thing from others
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- the social act of separating or parting company
- the state of lacking unity
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
- (law) An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
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- (transitive) To separate.
- (intransitive, politics) To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
- (transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
- separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
- divide from the main body or mass and collect
- separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
- (transitive) To set apart; separate.
- (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England, rare) To know; to understand.
- (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
- disconnect or separate
- regard as unconnected
- eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
- reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
- (transitive, military) To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.
- (ambitransitive) To unlink; to take apart or come apart.
- cause to separate
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- make a break in
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- cause to separate
- cause to become widely known
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to separate
- sow by scattering
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- distribute loosely
- strew or distribute over an area
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (slang, US) To leave.
- (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
- (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
- disentangle
- tangle or complicate
- (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- disentangle
- become undone
- become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
- Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.
- (also reflexive) To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out.
- To separate the threads of (something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric).
- To separate the connected or united parts of (something); to throw (something) into disorder; to confound, to confuse, to disintegrate.
- To become no longer ravelled or tangled.
- (figurative) Of a thing: to have its connected or united parts separated; to be thrown into disorder; to become confused or undone; to collapse.
- To cause (something) to no longer be ravelled or tangled; to disentangle, to untangle.
- (agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
- (informal, derogatory, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
- (derogatory, slang) A group of like-minded individuals who are not exposed to outside opinions or input.
- (computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
- (agriculture) From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
- (military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
- (informal, derogatory, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
- military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired
- a cylindrical tower used for storing silage
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
- (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
- (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
- A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
- distinguish and separate out
- move as if through a sieve
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
- check and sort carefully
- (transitive) To sieve or strain (something).
- (transitive) [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
- (transitive) To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- To become detached.
- (obsolete?) To come away (from a place); to leave.
- (intransitive) To stop playing (music).
- (transitive) To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something).
- To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.
- To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
- To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
- To have some success; to succeed.
- come to be detached
- happen in a particular manner
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- (transitive) To disentangle.
- (transitive, figurative) To counteract fate.
- (transitive) To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven).
- To happen; to unfold; to develop.
- To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc.
- (ambitransitive) To untwist (something that is twisted or wound)
- To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting.
- (ambiintransitive) To stop (something) from spinning.
- (transitive) To unmake.
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- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
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- Serving to separate.
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- serving or tending to divide or separate
- Tending to disjoin; separating.
- (music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
- (grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
- Not connected; separated.
- (logic) Of or related to a disjunction.
- (grammar, of a conjunction) Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.
- Able to be separated.
- (abstract algebra, of an algebra over a ring) Satisfying any of several technical conditions on the center of the algebra which generalize the situation of field extensions; see Separable algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (mathematics, of a differential equation) Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
- (of a polynomial) Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
- (mathematical analysis, of a topological space) Having a countable dense subset.
- (Galois theory, of an algebraic field extension E/F) Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
- capable of being divided or dissociated
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
- (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
- That divides something into parts.
- (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
- (transitive) To separate.
- (intransitive, politics) To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
- (transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
- separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
- divide from the main body or mass and collect
- separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
- distinct or separate
- differing from all others; not ordinary
- distinctly separate from the first
- unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
- Unlike most others; unusual.
- Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
- Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
- Various, assorted, diverse.
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate into parts or portions
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- away from another or others
- one from the other
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- into parts or pieces