单词 | disconnection |
释义 | disconnectionn. 1. The state or fact of being disconnected; lack of connection; separation, detachment. Also: the action of disconnecting something; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > disjunction, disunion, or disconnection unknittingc1384 discretiona1398 disjunctionc1400 disjuncturec1400 discouplingc1425 unjoining?c1425 unjointing?c1425 disjoining1530 disunion1598 breach1625 disunity1632 disconnection1663 disjointure1757 disjointing1794 disarticulation1808 non-union1823 1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian 281 He still raises the derision of the auditory by his disconnections, and tautologies, and Nonplusses. 1667 J. Sergeant Faith Vindicated i. 15 A liableness to disconnexion of those Notions which it pretended. 1735 B. Franklin Of True Happiness in Pennsylvania Gaz. 13–20 Nov. 1/1 We shall soon see the disconnexion between that and true solid Happiness. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 88 A spirit of disconnection, of distrust, and of treachery, amongst public men. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxix. 409 The power was most truly his own, not indeed in disconnection [1858 (ed. 6) disconnexion] from the Father. 1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Harmony (ed. 2) iv. 61 An awkward harmonic disconnection between the 6th and 7th of the Scale. 1894 Times 23 July 6/6 [It] involves the complete disconnexion of one part of the machinery before the other can be brought into working order. 1912 J. H. B. Masterman Hist. Brit. Constit. xviii. 193 The Sovereign, as compared with her Ministers, has..the advantages of long experience..and entire disconnexion from the bias of party. 1949 Life 28 Feb. 52/1 The party were digging out a bomb, and their prize man had gone down the pit to perform the delicate act of disconnection. 1986 Network World 21 July 13/2 The device cannot detect a busy signal, which could lead to the disconnection of an ongoing telephone conversation during testing. 2008 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 June (ED section) 32 Neglected children experience disconnection. They are lonely even in the schoolyard crowded with other children. 2. Lack of cohesion or connection between component parts; disconnectedness. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] > disconnectedness inconnection1620 disjointedness1655 desultoriness1661 unconnection1766 disconnection1815 disconnectedness1823 snippetiness1878 1815 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 454 The Iliad has too much of the disconnection which offends in the Orlando. 1848 W. J. Birch Inq. into Philos. & Relig. Shakspere 529 We do not see any disconnection in this speech. 1917 W. MacHarg & E. Balmer Indian Drum xii. 203 He felt that in this list and in these clippings there must be, somehow, some one general meaning... But in their disconnection, their incoherence, he could discern no common thread. 1988 G. Graff in B. J. Craige Lit., Lang. & Polit. 101 The fundamentalists are right to locate the educational problem in the..disconnection of the university's parts. 2011 N. Mandel Brett Easton Ellis ii. 99 A political, literary, and cinematic arena informed by disconnection and fragmentation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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