单词 | detach |
释义 | detachv. 1. transitive. To unfasten and separate; to disconnect, disengage, disunite. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] undoc1275 unwork1548 ungluea1617 unhinge1655 disattach1658 disengage1662 untacka1677 unglutinate1683 detach1686 unshackle1694 unship1793 unhitch1876 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 155 He distached or ripte it of.] 1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 75 Coglione detach'd himself out, for the viewing him the better. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 219 We must now Detache and disingage our Hearts from the Creatures. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 240 The Testimony of St. Paul is to be considered, as detached from That of the rest of the Apostles. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 6 The flints..I can readily conceive to have been detached from mountains very distant from them. 1797 Mann in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 446 The French have long sought to detach Austria from England. 1798 C. Lamb Rosamund Gray xi [It] only tends to soften and tranquillise my mind, to detach me from the restlessness of human pursuits. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 335 The caloric endeavours to detach carbonic acid from the lime. 1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia 258 Nor could Kara George venture to detach himself from the Russians. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 575 Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire were afterwards again detached from Northumberland. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 314/1 A failure to detach both hooks simultaneously may lead to the swamping of the boat. 2. Military and Navy. To separate and send off (a part from a main body) for a special purpose; to draw off (a regiment, a ship, or the like) for some special mission. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > detach for special purpose to draw out1587 detach1684 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 145 A Body of Foot and Dragoons was Detached to Attacque their Cannon. 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xxvi. 169 The Chivalry shall be detacht out of the most Puissant and wealthy Athenians. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To detach (Fr. in the Art of War), to make a Detachment, to send away a Party of Soldiers upon a particular Expedition. 1727 H. Bland Treat. Mil. Discipline xix. 287 When Battalions are Detach'd for the covering of the General's Quarters, it only goes for a Tour of Fatigue. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 212 She was immediately detached to look out for a convenient place. 1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 274 During this the front line detaches skirmishers. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 678 Several regiments..detached from the army which had lately besieged Limerick. 3. intransitive (for reflexive). To disengage and separate oneself, to become disconnected. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] skilla1200 unjoinc1390 to come away1575 uncleave1578 to come off1580 separate1638 shrink1688 detach1842 unship1867 1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 215 Detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights, and, slowly drawing near. Derivatives deˈtaching n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > detaching on special service detachment1678 detaching1864 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. xi. 171 Stronger than they, by their detachings. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Boat-detaching Hook, one adapted to be suddenly cast loose when a boat lowered from the davits touches the water. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 July 11/1 The detaching shaft springs back. 1890 Athenæum 21 June 795/3 That detaching and absorbing interest which from time to time is necessary to physical and mental well-being. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1684 |
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