| 单词 | disconnect |
| 释义 | disconnect (once / 2137 pages) vn When you disconnect something, you detach or separate it from something else. If you work plowing driveways during the winter, you need to disconnect the plow from your truck in the spring. You can disconnect toy train cars, and you can also disconnect your laptop from its charger. In fact, unplugging electrical appliances is another way to disconnect something. Disconnect also means a lack of understanding or connection. So there might be a disconnect between you and your brother, or between what a politician promises to do and what she actually does. Disconnect combines dis-, "the opposite of" with connect, from the Latin conectere, "join together." WORD FAMILYdisconnect: disconnected, disconnecting, disconnection, disconnects+/connect: connected, connecter, connecting, connection, connective, connector, connects, connexion, disconnect, interconnect/connected: connectedly, connectedness, unconnected/connection: connections/connective: connectively, connectives, connectivity/connector: connectors/connexion: connexions/disconnected: disconnectedly, disconnectedness/disconnectedness: disconnectednesses/disconnection: disconnections/interconnect: interconnected, interconnecting, interconnection, interconnects/interconnected: interconnectedness/interconnection: interconnections/unconnected: unconnectedly, unconnectedness USAGE EXAMPLESCultural connection or disconnect: On our way to some volcanic tourist sites, we drove past several farms with small bullfighting arenas. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Phone numbers listed for those individuals were disconnected or not working. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) For food trucks, winter is the season of their disconnect. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1v make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten Ant|Hypo|Hyper connect, link, link up, tie connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces decouple, uncouple disconnect or separate detachcause to become detached or separated; take off break, break off, snap offbreak a piece from a whole unbinduntie or unfasten unhooktake off a hook disunite, divide, part, separate force, take, or pull apart 2v pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable Syn|Ant|Hyper unplug connect, plug in, plug into plug into an outlet undo cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect 3n an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy Syn|Hyper disconnection, gulf disparity inequality or difference in some respect |
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