aparta‧part /əˈpɑːt $ -ɑːrt/ ●●● S2 W1 adverb, adjective 
Place the two posts 6 metres apart. They have offices in countries as far apart as India and Peru. The police try to keep rival supporters apart at all matches. A couple of men started fighting and we had to pull them apart. Joel stood apart from the group, frowning.2in different pieces if something comes apart, or you take it apart, it is separated into different pieces: The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. They took the engine apart to see what was wrong.3separate if you keep things apart, you keep them separate from each other: I try to keep my work and private life as far apart as possible.4not at same time if things are a particular time apart, they do not happen at the same time but have that much time between themtwo days/three weeks/five years etc apart Our birthdays are exactly a month apart.5people if people are apart, they are not together in the same place, or not having a relationship with each other: The children have never been apart before. My wife and I are living apart at the moment.apart from He’s never been apart from his mother.6fall apart a)if something falls apart, it breaks into different pieces: It just fell apart in my hands! b)if something is falling apart, it is in very bad condition: He drives around in an old car that’s falling apart. c)if something falls apart, it fails completely: He lost his job and his marriage fell apart. The country’s economy is in danger of falling apart.7be torn apart if a marriage, family etc is torn apart, it can no longer continue because of serious difficulties: The play portrays a good marriage torn apart by external forces.8be worlds/poles apart if people, beliefs, or ideas are worlds or poles apart, they are completely different from each other: I realized we were still worlds apart.9grow/drift apart if people drift or grow apart, their relationship slowly becomes less close: Lewis and his father drifted apart after he moved to New York.10joking apart used to say that you want to say something seriously: Joking apart, they did do quite a good job for us.11somebody/something apart except for someone or something: The car industry apart, most industries are now seeing an improvement in their economic performance.12set somebody/something apart to make someone or something different from other people or things: Her unusual lifestyle set her apart as a child.
WORD ORIGINapart
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1300-1400 Old French a part ‘to the side’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Helen noticed one little boy standing apart from the rest of the group.
- I hate it when we're apart.
- Jo and Sam decided to try living apart for a while.
- Since the universe began, the galaxies have gradually moved further apart.
- Stand on the skis with your feet well apart.
- The National Weather Service is forecasting snow in cities as far apart as Atlanta, Boston, and Cleveland.
- The seeds should be planted a few inches apart.
- The two cities are less than 30 km apart.
- The two sets of rival fans had to be kept apart by the police.
- The two towns are fifteen miles apart.
- We were standing a few feet apart from each other.
Longman Language Activatorto break into a lot of pieces
· One of the mugs rolled off the table and broke into bits on the stone floor.· Investigators are not sure what caused the plane to break into pieces and plunge into the ocean.
if a large object breaks up , it breaks into a lot of pieces especially as a result of natural forces, or serious damage: · The ice breaks up quicker near the shore.· Two of the missiles apparently broke up in flight.· The comet was formed when a planet broke up at some time in the distant past.
British go to pieces American to break into a lot of small pieces, especially because of being weak, old, or badly made: · The book had been read again and again, until it finally fell to pieces.· I picked the bag up, and it went to pieces in my hands.· The trunk was full of old dresses, some of which were falling to pieces.
to break easily into pieces, especially because of being badly made or very old: · I only bought these shoes last week, and they're falling apart already.· His jacket started coming apart at the seams.
if something disintegrates , it breaks into a lot of small pieces so that it is completely destroyed or so that it completely changes its form: · A 50-foot section of the roadway began to disintegrate after only a few cars had passed over it.· The plane disintegrated in midair.· The mummified man's clothes had disintegrated almost completely, but appeared to be mainly of leather and fur.
if something, especially glass, shatters , it breaks suddenly into a lot of very small pieces because it has been dropped or hit: · The glass had shattered, but the photograph itself was undamaged.· Storefront windows shattered and roofs blew off during the hurricane.· Don't try to drive nails into the bricks, they may shatter.
to noisily break into pieces as a result of being dropped or hit: · I heard something smash. What broke?smash to pieces/bits: · The bottle rolled off the table and smashed to pieces on the floor.
if something such as wood splinters , it breaks into thin, sharp pieces: · These types of wood splinter more easily than redwood or cedar.· The coating helps prevent the glass from splintering if it is hit by a rock while you are driving.
to break easily into a powder or into small pieces, especially as a result of being old or dry: · The autumn leaves crumbled in my fingers.· Some of the tiles are crumbling around the edges.
if something such as a tyre or a pipe bursts , the force of the air, water etc inside makes it break into many pieces: · The Concorde disaster was caused by a tyre bursting.· Thousands of gallons of oil flowed into the river when an oil pipeline burst.
especially American if a tyre blows , it breaks open suddenly and all the air comes out of it: · One of the tires blew and they skidded into the center divider.
furniture, cars, or machines that are in bad condition also in a bad state especially British · When I bought the chairs they were in very bad condition.· The car's in pretty bad shape, but I'll give you $300 for it.be in terrible/dreadful etc condition/shape · It's a nice piece of furniture, but in such terrible condition you won't get much money for it.
furniture and other structures that are rickety are in such bad condition that they look as if they would break if you tried to use them: · The staircase was old and rickety.· They sat around the card table on rickety old chairs.· a rickety bamboo fence
something that is battered is old and in bad condition because it has been used a lot and treated roughly: · There was nothing in his office except for a few battered chairs.· Alex and Lisa used to drive around town in a battered old Fiat Uno.
especially spoken if something is falling apart , it is gradually breaking into pieces, because it is old or badly made: · I need some new shoes. These are falling apart.· San Diego's public buildings are falling apart, but the city refuses to do anything about it.
if something is on its last legs , it has been used so much and is in such bad condition that you will soon not be able to use it any more: · The old car was on its last legs, and Renee knew she wouldn't be able to afford a new one.
if something has seen better days it is not in the good condition it once was in, because it is old or has been used a lot: · The carpets, curtains, and cushions had all seen better days but still looked quite pretty.· She lived in a rambling Victorian house that had certainly seen better days.
British informal /beat-up American informal use this about a vehicle or machine that is so old that it does not work properly: · Of course the carpet's a mess - all we've got is a clapped-out old vacuum cleaner.· She drives an old beat-up Ford.
to be the thing that makes someone or something different to be the thing that makes someone or something different from other people or things: · What really distinguishes the proposal?distinguish from: · There's not a lot that distinguishes her from the other candidates.· What distinguishes this approach from previous attempts to deal with HIV?
if a quality sets someone or something apart , it makes you notice them because they are so different or unusual: · Such seriousness and ambition in a very young man set him apart.set sb/sth apart from: · The new software was a unique tool that set the Microsoft Network apart from other commercial online services.
very different from something or someone else if two or more people or things have nothing in common , they do not have the same qualities, opinions, or interests: · Apart from the fact that we went to the same school, we have absolutely nothing in common.have nothing in common with: · Batavia was a completely new modern city, having very little in common with other Indonesian towns.
to be completely different from and not connected in any way with another person or thing: · Everyone complains that the national tests bear no relation to what children have learnt in class.· I was astonished when I read the press release, which bore no relation to what I had told them.
people, beliefs, or ideas that are worlds or poles apart are so completely different that there is almost nothing about them that is similar: · I don't know why Max took an interest in me. We were always worlds apart.worlds apart/poles apart from: · The children were on holiday, enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they had to put up with at home.
if a situation is a far cry from another situation or place, it is so different that it is almost the opposite: · We had dinner at the Ritz, a far cry from our usual hamburger and fries.· The first Olympic Games in 1896 were a far cry from the slick spectacle of today.
if you say there is a world of difference between two activities or situations, you mean that they are completely different from each other and people should not expect them to be the same: · There is a world of difference between home-made bread and the tasteless substance that many people buy today.
especially American, informal to be very different from what you have done or experienced before: · Being married is one thing, but having children is a whole new ball game.
British informal if two people who are related or good friends are like chalk and cheese , they are completely different in a way that surprises you: · It's hard to believe that they're brothers -- they're like chalk and cheese!
to notice that two things or people are different to be able to notice that two things or people are different, even though they seem to be similar: · It looked just like a real diamond - I couldn't tell the difference.can tell the difference between: · Can you tell the difference between a really good wine and the sort that you might drink every day?
to be able to see that two very similar people or things are different - use this especially in questions and negative statements: · The twins are identical - even their parents can't always tell them apart.
to be able to recognize and understand the difference between two or more similar people or things: · Several thousand minerals can be distinguished, each defined by its own set of properties.distinguish between: · Even a expert would find it hard to distinguish between the original painting and the copy.distinguish from: · A tiny baby soon learns to distinguish its mother's face from other adults' faces.
to know, see, or show the difference between a group of people or things: differentiate between: · As journalists, we have to differentiate between facts and opinions.differentiate from: · Part of the management course was teaching us how to differentiate essential tasks from less important ones.
to say what the difference is between two or more similar people or things: draw/make a distinction between: · The law draws a distinction between different types of killing, according to whether it was intended or not.· In the government's education proposals there is a clear distinction made between academic and practical training.
to be able to find differences between similar people or things in order to make a choice: discriminate between: · The monkeys were easily able to discriminate between the different objects, according to their visual appearance.discriminate from: · A test is useful for discriminating those students who have reached a higher level from those at a lower level.
the distance between one place or point and another how far it is from one place to another: distance from something to something: · What is the distance from New York to Miami?the distance between something and something: · Measure the distance between the window and the door.· the distance between the earth and the sun
use this to ask what the distance is between where you are and another place: · "How far is Newark?" "It's about 200 miles."how far is it to...?: · How far is it to the nearest gas station?
if one place is 10 kilometres/30 miles/20 minutes etc from another place, that is the distance between the two places, or the time it takes to get from one to the other: · Seattle is about 100 miles from the Canadian border.· The junior high school is five minutes from our house.· She was standing just a couple of metres from the edge of the cliff.
if a place or person is 10 kilometres/30 miles/20 minutes etc away , they are that distance from where you are, or it takes that amount of time to travel there: · The nearest village was about 20 miles away.· Toronto's only about an hour and a half away by car.away from: · The station is about two miles away from the city centre.· He was standing three metres away from the bomb when it exploded.
if something is 10 kilometres/30 metres etc off , that is how far it is from you or from the place you are talking about: · The nearest town is fifteen kilometres off.· The robbers must be a long way off by now.· We were still several miles off, but you could already see a glow in the sky from the lights of the city.
if two places, objects, or people are three miles, two centimetres etc apart , that is the distance between them: · The seeds should be planted a few inches apart.· The two towns are fifteen miles apart.· We were standing a few feet apart from each other.well apart (=wide apart): · Stand on the skis with your feet well apart.far apart (=a long way apart): · The National Weather Service is forecasting snow in cities as far apart as Atlanta, Boston, and Cleveland.
use this to say how far one place is from another or from where you are: a long/short way from: · California is a long way from Georgia.· Only a short way from the buildings is the impressive entrance to Bruntscar Cave.a long/short way away: · Oxford is just a short way away. You can make the drive in under an hour.
exactly like someone or something · They were both wearing the same shoes.· We've opened up stores in the UK and we hope to do the same in the rest of Europe.· "We always get up late on Saturdays." "It's the same in our house."look/sound/taste etc the same · The houses on the street all look the same.just the same/exactly the same (=not different in any way) · I tried three different types of wine, but they all tasted exactly the same to me.all the same · Take whichever you like - they're all the same.the same ... as · They were doing the same jobs as the men, but being paid less.
if someone or something is just like or exactly like someone or something else, there is very little difference between them: · You're just like my teacher.· There are insects that look exactly like green leaves.· This song sounds exactly like that one by The Beatles.be just/exactly like doing something: · We had often talked about emigrating to Australia. Suzie came from Melbourne, so it would be just like going home for her.
identical things are exactly the same in every way: · To me the two patterns looked identical.identical to: · The picture is identical to the one in the museum of Modern Art in New York.identical in size/colour/shape etc: · The tablets were identical in size, shape, and colour.
if you can't tell the difference between two people or things, or if you can't tell them apart , they look, sound, or seem exactly the same to you: · Emma and Louise sound so alike on the phone, I can't tell the difference.· They are identical twins and it's impossible to tell them apart.· These rap bands all sound the same to me -- I can't tell them apart.can't tell the difference between: · Don't let her help you with the gardening -- she can't tell the difference between a weed and a strawberry plant!
two people or things that are indistinguishable are so similar that it is impossible to know which is which or to see any differences between them: · In the storm the sky and sea were indistinguishable.· It was claimed that Russian and American defence policies were indistinguishable.indistinguishable from: · He tasted the cheaper wine and found it indistinguishable from a superior one.
use this especially when you expect something or someone to be different from another thing or person, but in fact they are the same: · People often think that movie stars are special in some way, but really they're no different from anybody else.· Life on the island is no different from life on the mainland.
if one thing matches another or if two things match , they look the same or have the same qualities or characteristics: · You can't go out wearing socks that don't match.· Their performance in government didn't quite match their election promises.
if you repeat or copy something word for word , you do it using exactly the same words: · Janice repeated word for word what Harold had told her.· It appears that someone has copied your essay word for word.
not together not together: · All the children have separate bedrooms.· a university with three separate campuses· The cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles are completely separate.separate from: · The nursery was separate from the main school.keep something separate: · He likes to keep his work and his family life separate.· Keep your bank card and your PIN number separate.
if people or things are apart , they are in different places and there is a distance between them: · I hate it when we're apart.live apart: · Jo and Sam decided to try living apart for a while.move/drift apart: · Since the universe began, the galaxies have gradually moved further apart.apart from: · Helen noticed one little boy standing apart from the rest of the group.50 miles/100 kilometres etc apart: · The two cities are less than 30 km apart.keep somebody apart: · The two sets of rival fans had to be kept apart by the police.
not together, but at separate times or in separate places: · The couple arrived separately at London Airport yesterday.· Books for more advanced students are listed separately.· Each of the men talked to her separately after the meeting.
when two or more people stop having a relationship, friendship etc to start to live apart from a sexual partner you used to live with or are married to: · They separated several years ago, but they're not divorced.· Kids are put under a tremendous emotional strain when their parents separate.
if two people split up , they stop having a relationship with each other, especially a sexual relationship: · They're always arguing, but I don't think they'll ever split up.split up with: · He started drinking heavily after he split up with Debbie.
to separate from someone so that your relationship ends - used especially in literature: · They parted in a fairly amicable way.· She hoped that she and Jonathan would never part.
if two people break up , or if their relationship breaks up , they stop having a relationship with each other : · Tom and I broke up last year.· Newspaper stories often have a lot to do with showbusiness marriages breaking up.break up with: · I can't imagine ever breaking up with my wife.
if people drift apart , they gradually become less friendly and see each other less, until their relationship finally ends: · Over the years my schoolfriends and I have drifted apart.· Teddy and Maria never really argued -- they just drifted apart.
if a group of friends go their separate ways , they each go to different places and start doing different things: · After we left college we all went our separate ways and I never saw those friends again.
separated from a relation, especially a close one such as a husband or mother, so that you almost never see them, for example because you have had a serious argument: somebody's estranged wife/husband/father etc: · He is hoping for a reconciliation with his estranged wife Hillary.· In 1975, he wrote a formal letter to his estranged father.be estranged from somebody: · We provide support to people who are estranged from their families.
a situation in which a husband and wife agree to live apart from each other even though they are still married: · In the case of separation or divorce, the children's needs should come first.· Since the separation they've each been seeing different people.trial separation (=to see if it is better or worse being separated): · He said he understood her doubts and perhaps a trial separation might be the answer.
to separate things or people so that they are no longer close or touching · If you two don't stop talking during class, I'll have to separate you.· Some of the pages had got stuck together and I couldn't separate them.separate something from something · Break an egg into a bowl and separate the white from the yolk.· Farmers separate calves from their mothers when they are only a few days old.
to separate two things or parts that are together, making a space in the middle of them: · Joe parted the curtains and the sunlight came flooding in.· She parted the branches with her hands as she moved further into the forest.
to stop things from touching each other or coming together, especially in order to prevent something from happening: · The plastic casing keeps the wires apart.· After mating, male and female sheep are usually kept apart.
to separate people from each other, the rest of society etc to keep two or more people apart, especially so that they cannot cause any trouble together: · Teachers thought it best to separate Paul and Fred and put them in different classes.separate somebody from somebody: · Separating prisoners from each other is sometimes the only way of preventing riots.
to separate two or more people so that they cannot talk to or harm each other: · At the party it seemed only sensible to keep her ex-husband and her new boyfriend apart.keep sb apart from: · Sex offenders are often kept apart from other prisoners for their own safety.
to keep someone away from other people, especially because they are suffering from an infectious disease: · We used to routinely isolate people who had measles.isolate somebody from: · The six other patients were immediately isolated from the infected four.
to separate someone from the people they are usually with: · She realized that he was trying to cut her off from her friends.· It's easy to get cut off from your family when you first go overseas.
to separate one group of people from others, especially because of their race, sex, religion etc: · Schools should not segregate children with disabilities.· Faith-based schools would only segregate society further.be segregated from: · Male prisoners were strictly segregated from the females.
the practice of keeping people of different races apart and making them live, work, or study separately, especially because one race believes that members of the other race are not as good as they are: · Racial segregation in schools still exists in some southern states.· Civil rights protestors called for an end to all segregation.
the former South African political and social system in which black and white races had to go to separate schools, live in separate areas etc as a way of keeping white people in their position of power: · Mandela was in prison for over 25 years for opposing apartheid in South Africa.· an anti-apartheid organization
separated from other people because you have or may have an infectious illness that they could catch if they were with you: · One of the crew caught smallpox, and soon they were all in quarantine.put somebody in quarantine: · All animals entering the UK used to have to be put in quarantine.
to separate something into two or more parts · This is a technique used to separate the components of a mixture.separate something into something · He sat at a desk, separating a pile of mail into "urgent' and "non-urgent'.
to separate something into a number of separate parts or things: divide something into something: · We divided the pizza into three and had a slice each.· Some of the big old houses have been divided into apartments.divide up something/divide something up: · He said that dividing up the company would make the units more profitable.
to separate something that used to be a single thing or a single group into two or more different parts: · Rutherford first split the atom on 3rd January 1919.split something in half/in two (=so that it makes two equal parts): · He split the company in half, and then sold both new companies to different buyers.split something into something (=into two, three etc parts): · For this exercise, I'm going to split the class into three groups.
to separate something into several smaller parts: break up something: · The police were attacked as they tried to break up the crowd.break something up: · If you have to give a long explanation, try to break it up.break something up into something: · You can break a subject up into sections and guide your learners through it one section at a time.
to separate something such as a report or a job into parts, especially in order to make it easier to understand or easier to do: break down something: · Try to break down the calculation and get the students to do it in stages.break something down: · If you find a piece of music hard to play, break it down into small sections and practise each one slowly.
to separate a machine, piece of equipment etc into parts: take something apart: · He'd shown her how to take a gun apart and clean it.take apart something: · He spends his time taking apart old clocks and watches.
to separate a large or complicated machine into parts, for example so that it can no longer be used or in order to make it easier to move, repair etc: · Jimmy was in the garage, dismantling his bike.· The first thing the soldiers did was to dismantle the enemy's surveillance equipment.
to separate something into pieces, especially in order to check for a fault or to clean it: · He took the toy to pieces to find out how it worked.· The parcel contained a gun that had been taken to pieces.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Place the two posts 6 metres apart. They have offices in countries as far apart as India and Peru. The police try to keep rival supporters apart at all matches. A couple of men started fighting and we had to pull them apart. The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. They took the engine apart to see what was wrong. Our birthdays are exactly a month apart.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Quite apart from the cost, we need to think about how much time the job will take. She felt as if her life was coming apart at the seams (=failing completely). The health service is falling apart at the seams. The boats were drifting farther and farther apart. a resort town farther up the coast She lived farthest away from school of all of us. They used three microphones spaced several yards apart.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
Place the two posts 6 metres apart. They have offices in countries as far apart as India and Peru. The police try to keep rival supporters apart at all matches. A couple of men started fighting and we had to pull them apart. The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. They took the engine apart to see what was wrong. Our birthdays are exactly a month apart. Quite apart from the cost, we need to think about how much time the job will take. She felt as if her life was coming apart at the seams (=failing completely). The health service is falling apart at the seams. The boats were drifting farther and farther apart. a resort town farther up the coast She lived farthest away from school of all of us. They used three microphones spaced several yards apart.· As three more shots rang out, the push-chair blew apart.· Others had been hit by pieces of trees or bomb fragments and blown apart.· To stop the people going back, their homes are shelled, shot up and blown apart.· Living away from each other, the extended family has been blown apart.· Everyone on the bridge of the Raubvogel ducked as a pane of glass was blown apart.· The old world has been blown apart.· It was in the film to be blown apart.· The ship had clearly been blown apart.
· She curled up in a tight ball as though to stop herself from breaking apart.· Picnickers sat on the stones and they fell over; they broke apart.· But as the temperature of the material rises thermal vibrations cause the pairs to break apart and superconducting ceases.· Either with an-other partner might be a happy person, yet, out of fear they can not break apart.· Quite large accretions of atoms can form, and they can crumble and break apart again.· They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.· His religious faith, which had always been a rationalistic, brittle thing, simply broke apart.
· It is, however, the point where the valley comes apart, dividing into a western and an eastern branch.· More often than not, the lashing simply came apart in my hands.· Judi was coming apart inside her waistcoat.· There is a general agreement of how it came apart.· She was an idiot, coming apart at the seams, and she hadn't written a word.· The pilot reported engine problems, and survivors said they could see the left engine begin to come apart.· In fact, the plastic or cloth covering can come apart, exposing the foam padding.· The glass came apart like water splashing, and the nurse threw her hands to her ears.
· Later in life, Lewis and his father drifted apart, never to be reconciled.· We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart.· Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.· If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart, it is a pair of brothers.· If you do nothing, there's a danger you could drift apart.· Amelia was still engaged to Sam Chapman, but in fact she had been drifting apart from him for some time.· Without the cement of regular meetings or contact, they gradually began to drift apart.· Where languages grow most unlike one another as they drift apart is in the shapes of their words.
· Mukhamedov's defection two years ago, just as Communism was falling apart, will not be forgiven in a hurry.· My grocery bag started to fall apart, so I held it under my coat.· Conversely, political integration will inevitably fall apart if there is no financial benefit.· I had lost her face and I felt my own features fall apart like an old brick hotel in a Frisco earthquake.· And every so often, of course, things fell apart.· I was able to talk with visitors offering condolences, to endure two memorial ceremonies without falling apart.· The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment.· Andy Hertzfeld recalls being so stunned at the defection that he felt the entire project might fall apart.
· Such barrenness is the inevitable outcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.· Instead, it was suggested the couple, who married in their early 20s, had simply grown up and grown apart.· Work-inhibited students have not grown apart from their parents and become independent.· Virgin and Coutts had long been growing apart.· You grow apart from certain kind of shows.· He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year.· Just grown apart, Sam supposed.
· Similarly the draw will attract as much interest for those it keeps apart as those it brings together.· It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart.· The Procedure Committee wanted these three categories to be kept apart.· It was decided that Albright herself be kept apart from those discussions, since she still had to work with Boutros-Ghali.· Until this weekend mother and children had only been kept apart by official engagements.· The arms were kept apart, in precious and beautifully crafted silver cases.· Keep apart from raw foods in the fridge.· Lovers, for example, are generally kept apart by wars or political circumstances rather than by simple misunderstandings.
· It's usually a trouble-free procedure, but occasionally there's a problem over whether you've really been living apart.· We have made a decision to live apart.· But the courts will only agree that they're living apart if the husband and wife run totally different lives.· Father and son lived apart and became estranged.· After a short time in Johannesburg, Grace and Herbert started living apart.· Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.· And, of course, not sleep together, which they mustn't do if they're living apart either.· Kathy and I have never lived apart.
· But I fear we are now being pulled apart - by commercial pressures and by the changes forced upon the broadcasting environment.· He said something, and they pulled apart and both started talking at once.· The kill is pulled apart in a way most people would find unedifying, despite assurances.· He succeeded in pulling apart my clenched arms and started on my legs.· Then comes anaphase I: the quartet of chromatids are pulled apart so as to form two sets of paired chromatids.· Does the crust separate or pull apart from itself just under the dome?· Concrete is extremely strong when compressed but has no strength at all when pulled apart.
· Most of the craft had been cannibalized and ripped apart.· The bomb which ripped apart bus No. 18 in the capital hurled bodies as far as 50 yards.· To produce a sail he had ripped apart his military uniform.· Before our eyes the land is literally being ripped apart.· Three foxes were saved from being savagely ripped apart.· To reward him for this good behavior, I ripped apart the cedar waxwing and handed it to him in little pieces.· The centres of our old cities have been ripped apart to make way for it.· For one, legal training is great for teaching lawyers how to rip apart facts and legal doctrines analytically.
· One road is set apart for the testing of the heating apparatus, etc., on vehicles.· Set apart from the rest of the town, the palaces were grouped near that of the Shogun.· Light is set apart From the reality we both restored To one another.· Three or four blackboards, two of them broken, made them seem a little bit set apart.· This balance was what set apart the New Testament view from its Greco-Roman surroundings.· But what sets apart Silvers' Grocery Store and others like it is the upstairs-downstairs, shopkeeper nature of the business.· Traditionally, these days were set apart for special prayer and fasting.· They are used in combination to set apart two main groups, the detrital and the chemical.
· The graduate's skull split apart into four pieces like a coconut.· A brother and sister are split apart, and his identity gets swallowed up in an institution.· There was a muffled explosion, and the air beside the sergeant seemed to split apart.· Single-issue, factional politics has split apart the parties' traditional coalitions.· After Beethoven, the two split apart.· He felt his chest chopped down and split apart.· In the post-war world the fireside has been split apart, indeed subsumed to the kitchen.· But for a time in 1990 it seemed likely to split apart.
· I recognized that what I liked in Dad and Charlie was their insistence on standing apart.· He was perfectly happy to stand apart from his colleagues.· We observe its regularities, its comings and goings through and in ourselves, yet we are unable to stand apart.· How then do I stand apart?· Philippa, standing apart, knew which man she herself was praying for.· Let them stand apart from the novel itself.· All the farmers stood apart in groups, looking around.· It also stands apart from leading a single initiative.
· We need to know how things are related, not just how they can be taken apart.· Beginning next month, more Crissy Field buildings will be taken apart, opening more Bay vistas to hikers and bike riders.· They were tested at speed, with weights and eventually taken apart.· He ended up buying this austere Cistercian monastery, which he had taken apart and shipped to San Francisco.· I had my soul, past and present, taken apart by a psychiatrist.· He started taking apart the engineering of the scene, keeping count of the timing in his head.· As we take apart the fight story, more and more men seem to be pushing in with their own excited commentaries.· Every time I went through an airport security system it was me they took apart.
· For those whose lives have been torn apart, Victim Support offers a lifeline.· More water has been destroyed by ultraviolet sunlight, torn apart into oxygen and hydrogen.· In practice instruments could not survive such a journey; they would be torn apart by the increasing gravitational field gradients.· He ripped up grass; tore apart moss; picked up pebbles, sticks, and twigs.· The play portrays a good marriage torn apart by external forces.· At age eight, Ryan tore apart a broken television set and tried to reassemble it.· They feed on large tough fruits and other vegetable matter, including bark which they can tear apart with their strong hands.· Perhaps you tore apart a car engine and reassembled it in moments flat.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► somebody/something apart► fall apartPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► pull something ↔ apart► pull somebody ↔ apart► pull something ↔ apart► pull somebody/something ↔ apart
1not close/touching if things are apart, they are not close to each other or touching each othertwo miles/six feet etc apart- But his method of filming and Huston's were worlds apart.
- Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
- Physically they were almost identical, but psychologically they were worlds apart.
- The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
- The two feelings were poles apart.
- Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
- Watching somebody and actually killing them are worlds apart.
- You all say that but the truth is, the theory and the practice are worlds apart.
- I think Dan and Tina just grew apart.
- If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart, it is a pair of brothers.
- Instead, it was suggested the couple, who married in their early 20s, had simply grown up and grown apart.
- Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
- Later in life, Lewis and his father drifted apart, never to be reconciled.
- Such barrenness is the inevitable outcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.
- We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart.
- Work-inhibited students have not grown apart from their parents and become independent.
- Joking apart, I do feel somebody should tell him what we think. It's for his own good.
- Peter joking apart have the tories done themselves any good this week?
- Such seriousness and ambition in a very young man set him apart.
- The new software was a unique tool that set the Microsoft Network apart from other commercial online services.
- A penchant for setting oneself apart and above mere mortals.
- BAs gloomy as this prospect might be, it also set us apart.
- I was the first, but beyond that I see nothing to set me apart from anyone else.
- Such seriousness, intensity, and power in a young man set him apart and left an impression on others.
- They seemed to bend at the knee, setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved.
- What set it apart was the way irrigation and power production were linked.
- What sets it apart is where it comes from.
- Before their lives were torn apart, they were a happy family.
- He was torn apart as health and social security secretary and suffered demotion before resigning.
- He would be torn apart by the difference between the gravitational force on his head and his feet.
- In practice instruments could not survive such a journey; they would be torn apart by the increasing gravitational field gradients.
- Parents who objected were torn apart as heretics.
- The political structures were torn apart until the very foundations were rocked.
- The spaceship would be torn apart by infinitely strong forces.
- We have players in the league whose families, let alone countries, are torn apart by war.
- I need some new shoes. These are falling apart.
- San Diego's public buildings are falling apart, but the city refuses to do anything about it.
- That car of yours is falling apart.
- But things were falling apart much earlier than expected.
- Everything was falling apart, and I didn't know how to stop it.
- How does a man even try to explain that he is falling apart because he doesn't kill people any more?
- Mukhamedov's defection two years ago, just as Communism was falling apart, will not be forgiven in a hurry.
- She liked her old apartment, but the neighborhood was falling apart.
- The 911 system is falling apart.
- The Underground seemed to be falling apart.
- When your world falls apart, do you get mad, get out or get even?
- Peter joking apart have the tories done themselves any good this week?
- Tokyo and Washington remain poles apart on the issue of free trade.
- I suppose that logicians and physicists normally consider themselves to be poles apart.
- Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
- The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
- The two feelings were poles apart.
- Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
- This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart.
- The country's whole economy is coming apart at the seams.
- Before that you have a genetic desire to inspect everything, to tear everything apart.
- I would never have believed then, that jealousy would tear us apart.
- It allows the vehicle to manoeuvre without tearing itself apart on the back axle.
- Little Charlie and the Nightcats tear things apart tomorrow night.
- Reg tore this apart and produced wonderful cool refreshing water which revived us all.
- The protest was tearing Holy Trinity apart.
- Tigers have attacked the dummies and torn them apart without any sign of being discouraged by the sharp jolt they have received.
- Why tear the church apart sO you can see the priest say Mass?
- Before that you have a genetic desire to inspect everything, to tear everything apart.
- I would never have believed then, that jealousy would tear us apart.
- It allows the vehicle to manoeuvre without tearing itself apart on the back axle.
- Little Charlie and the Nightcats tear things apart tomorrow night.
- Reg tore this apart and produced wonderful cool refreshing water which revived us all.
- The protest was tearing Holy Trinity apart.
- Tigers have attacked the dummies and torn them apart without any sign of being discouraged by the sharp jolt they have received.
- Why tear the church apart sO you can see the priest say Mass?
- He sat with his legs wide apart.
- It was 3 a.m., but I was wide awake.
- The door was wide open when we got here.
- After an hour, though still wide awake, I crimped the page and turned off the light.
- But from what I gathered at the arts fair, the field is pretty wide open.
- My big worry is that the Monster will come wide awake and ruin things with its gross demands.
- The doors of the Conch cafe were wide open with no sign of Huong or Anna; they had probably evacuated.
- The main door stood wide open making a through draught.
- These are still very early days and the options are wide open.
- They were certainly the first means of crossing wide open spaces that are still vast and untamed, even today.
- Turning the corner into Polly's road, Jack noticed suddenly that the door to her house was wide open.
Place the two posts 6 metres apart. They have offices in countries as far apart as India and Peru. The police try to keep rival supporters apart at all matches. A couple of men started fighting and we had to pull them apart. Joel stood apart from the group, frowning.2in different pieces if something comes apart, or you take it apart, it is separated into different pieces: The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. They took the engine apart to see what was wrong.3separate if you keep things apart, you keep them separate from each other: I try to keep my work and private life as far apart as possible.4not at same time if things are a particular time apart, they do not happen at the same time but have that much time between themtwo days/three weeks/five years etc apart Our birthdays are exactly a month apart.5people if people are apart, they are not together in the same place, or not having a relationship with each other: The children have never been apart before. My wife and I are living apart at the moment.apart from He’s never been apart from his mother.6fall apart a)if something falls apart, it breaks into different pieces: It just fell apart in my hands! b)if something is falling apart, it is in very bad condition: He drives around in an old car that’s falling apart. c)if something falls apart, it fails completely: He lost his job and his marriage fell apart. The country’s economy is in danger of falling apart.7be torn apart if a marriage, family etc is torn apart, it can no longer continue because of serious difficulties: The play portrays a good marriage torn apart by external forces.8be worlds/poles apart if people, beliefs, or ideas are worlds or poles apart, they are completely different from each other: I realized we were still worlds apart.9grow/drift apart if people drift or grow apart, their relationship slowly becomes less close: Lewis and his father drifted apart after he moved to New York.10joking apart used to say that you want to say something seriously: Joking apart, they did do quite a good job for us.11somebody/something apart except for someone or something: The car industry apart, most industries are now seeing an improvement in their economic performance.12set somebody/something apart to make someone or something different from other people or things: Her unusual lifestyle set her apart as a child.