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ALL meanings of apart

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  • adverb apart When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other. 3
  • adverb apart If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other. 3
  • adverb apart If two people are apart, they are no longer living together or spending time together, either permanently or just for a short time. 3
  • adverb apart 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. 3
  • adverb apart 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. 3
  • adverb apart If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things. 3
  • adjective apart If people or groups are a long way apart on a particular topic or issue, they have completely different views and disagree about it. 3
  • adverb apart You use apart when you are making an exception to a general statement. 3
  • phrase apart 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. 3
  • adverb apart You use apart to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect. 3
  • adjective apart to pieces or in pieces 3
  • adjective apart placed or kept separately or to one side for a particular purpose, reason, etc; aside (esp in the phrases set or put apart) 3
  • adjective apart separate in time, place, or position; at a distance 3
  • adjective apart not being taken into account; aside 3
  • adjective apart individual; distinct; separate 3
  • adjective apart separately or independently in use, thought, or function 3
  • adverb apart to one side; at a little distance; aside 3
  • adverb apart separately or away in place or time 3
  • adverb apart reserved for a particular purpose 3
  • adverb apart separately or independently in function, use, etc. 3
  • adverb apart in or to pieces 3
  • adverb apart aside; notwithstanding 3
  • adjective apart separated; not together 3
  • adverb apart into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay. 1
  • adverb apart separately in place, time, motion, etc.: New York and Tokyo are thousands of miles apart. Our birthdays are three days apart. 1
  • adverb apart to or at one side, with respect to place, purpose, or function: to put money apart for education; to keep apart from the group out of pride. 1
  • adverb apart separately or individually in consideration: each factor viewed apart from the others. 1
  • adverb apart aside (used with a gerund or noun): Joking apart, what do you think? 1
  • adjective apart having independent or unique qualities, features, or characteristics (usually used following the noun it modifies): a class apart. 1
  • idioms apart apart from, aside from; in addition to; besides: Apart from other considerations, time is a factor. 1
  • noun apart (of two or more people or things) Separated by a distance; at a specified distance from each other in time or space. 1
  • adjective apart separated 1
  • adjective apart sth: separated 1
  • adverb apart at a distance 1
  • adverb apart into pieces 1
  • adjective apart with special qualities 1
  • adverb apart not with the rest, separated 1
  • adverb apart Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. 0
  • adverb 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. 0
  • adverb apart Aside; away. 0
  • adverb apart In two or more parts; asunder; to piece. 0
  • preposition apart (following its objective complement) apart from. 0
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