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apart

[uh-pahrt]

adverb

into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.

separately in place, time, motion, etc.: New York and Tokyo are thousands of miles apart. Our birthdays are three days 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.

separately or individually in consideration: each factor viewed apart from the others.

aside (used with a gerund or noun): Joking apart, what do you think?

adjective

having independent or unique qualities, features, or characteristics (usually used following the noun it modifies): a class apart.

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Apart is always a great word to know.

So is gobo. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Verb phrase

take apart,

to disassemble: to take a clock apart.

Informal. to criticize; attack: She was taken apart for her controversial stand.

to subject to intense examination: He will take your feeble excuses apart.

Idiom

apart from, aside from; in addition to; besides: Apart from other considerations, time is a factor.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French a part to one side. See a-⁵, part

Related forms

a·part·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

It will immediately set your statement apart from those-and they are legion-that begin with a standard expository paragraph.

The euro zone either has to get deeper, or it will fall apart.

So perfect, in fact, that it's impossible to tell individuals apart from their calls.

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It will immediately set your statement apart from those-and they are legion-that begin with a standard expository paragraph.

The euro zone either has to get deeper, or it will fall apart.

So perfect, in fact, that it's impossible to tell individuals apart from their calls.

Taking apart a nuclear power plant that has reached the end of its life is a complicated task.

California's coast road offers a beautiful drive-but it keeps falling apart.

But to build what he wanted would have meant tearing the wall apart.

In the weird world of quantum physics, two linked particles can share a single fate, even when they're miles apart.

Many things during this period set life apart from.

Apart from that, it is hard to find fault with the city.

For example, old clothing from your closets can be taken apart and transformed into craft projects.

Africa is splitting apart at the seam, making way for a new ocean.

Not at the same time-they arrived a few months apart from each other.

Pull the quarters apart and further divide them with your hands or a knife.

Unfortunately, this way you don't get a good sense of how far apart these things are.

But that claim, along with a number of others, falls apart on.

It is a brilliant careers office that sets the best schools apart.

Then, the plates can suddenly come apart and slam into a new position.

So problem solved: simultaneous information meters apart without traveling at all.

The few-days-old cluster of cells that are taken apart to obtain stem cells are potential precursors of human beings.

Pull body sections apart and dig out pockets of meat.

My introduction to the nuances of culinary geekery were definitely attained apart from my parents.

But apart from loosing rivers of blood and bile about this online.

Both sides in principle favour the use of triggers, but are far apart on how they would work.

At a park, you can see a place where the plates pull apart.

The two winter respiratory illnesses may look alike, but pay attention to tell them apart.

My madame alexander dolls have all come apart as the rubber bands have disintegrated.

The chiles fall apart as the dish cooks, giving the meat a mellow, earthy.

The easiest route for genuine hands-on learning: take apart some old stuff.

Hopeful applicants labor over every word, straining to set themselves apart through.

But he picks apart some crude versions of post-Enlightenment secularism.

Moments later the chilling sounds of a submarine breaking apart and imploding were heard.

Apart from a brief moment, when the text appeared in the sky and looked miraculous, the fog killed the projections for awhile.

Sometimes he takes things apart and can't put them back together.

But the two sides aren't far apart when it comes to student aid:.

Things began to fall apart last year when a disorganised opposition disputed the results of a general election.

The limestone bedrock that is the foundation of this ecoregion sets it apart from other areas.

In fact, it was when the droplets started to pull apart from each other that they suddenly mixed.

Elephants may look alike to you and me, but the shapes of their ear flaps and their tusks set them apart.

He loves tearing things apart with his kids to repair them, and in general to learn how things.

And a new paper illuminates what sets them apart from those disadvantaged students who do not.

They use these to capture and tear apart their crustacean prey.

What really sets mummies apart is how they are preserved.

The quickening expansion will eventually pull galaxies apart faster than light, causing them to drop out of view.

Female elephants live much of their lives apart from males, in family groups led by a matriarch.

He said he likes to take machines apart and look for new ways to customize them.

No one, apart from the few people who plotted and carried out those events, could have anticipated that they were going to happen.

But with time running short, the parties seem as far apart as ever.

As the plates moved, they slowly pulled the continents apart.

Now proteins have been discovered that set these people apart from those who are easily cured.

Only a tiny fraction were absorbed by the stellar gas, and they had so much energy they ripped apart the outer layers of the star.

But what sets them apart from previous lines is the ammunition.

After a while you'll want people apart from those who helped you at the dissertation stage obprof:.

But one feature-whether a language uses pitch as well as vowels and consonants to convey word meanings-stood apart.

The manner in which the fossil skeletons were broken apart is also telling, the study teams says.

Apart from our waking visions, our internal perceptions can trap us into not accepting reality.

Some textile items were so precious they would be taken apart and remade, or repurposed, for other uses.

The two sections snap together with magnets, letting them break apart when the cord gets tugged.

We dealt with him by systematically tearing his comments apart using logic and reasoning.

The article says you spend your evenings apart from the expedition.

Dark energy is pushing the universe apart at an ever faster rate.

Popham's rediscovery came about by two events a century apart.

The jerky handheld camera is great, too, somehow setting it apart from the superslick iPhone ads.

So the librarian explained that spiral bond books don't hold up, but fall apart readily.

The rings are far apart while the animal is young and growing quickly.

The triple disaster has also split apart once closeknit communities-some who stay consider those who leave to be traitors.

They can break apart cellulose's tough bonds in the lab, but the enzymes they use are wildly, prohibitively expensive.

The magnets, embedded in the wooden bricks, repel each other and push the blocks apart.

Fall apart and have multiple hospitalizations, suicide attempts, and hope a relative can handle having you around.

Most such comets are doomed to break apart or crash into a planet or the sun.

The chemical helps break apart the pectin in the fries, yielding a smoother mouthfeel.

There are many species of lionfish in the world's oceans, and they can be hard to tell apart.

The cool thing is that the image begins to break apart once the player starts moving in any direction.

What sets us apart as a research university is the uniquely entrepreneurial spirit of our faculty.

Just as on land where every country is set apart from another by its people and.

Stars within a typical galaxy are so far apart that the chances of two colliding are slim to none.

Reconciling such fantasies could take a while, and in times as tough as these, they all could fall apart.

Note the hollowed-out circle, which sets it apart from other companies' bricks.

If you distribute a paper syllabus, remember that the pages will come apart.

Engineers often load a structure with weight until it collapses or shake it until it flies apart.

Apart from its apricot filling, the recipe seems pretty simplechocolate on chocolate.

When finding the slope, it is best to use points off the line that you drew that are as far apart as possible.

She freaked out, hired a contractor, and began ripping apart the house.

Non degradable ones have become ugly nuisance, apart from being environmental unfriendly.

New bridges run across canyons and streams that were once boundaries for turf wars, linking neighborhoods once torn apart.

As you say, high- and low-energy impacts do different damage, so it is possible to tell them apart.

They even spaced us out four years apart so they'd have enough money to pay tuition for each of.

The voltage tears apart the air molecules and the gas begins to glow.

He took it apart and inside found his life's calling.

It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses.

These high blown conclusions are not empirically justified, so there's no point in picking them apart.

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World English Dictionary

apart (əˈpɑːt)

—*adj, —adv*
1.	to pieces or in pieces: he had the television apart on the floor
2.	placed or kept separately or to one side for a particular purpose, reason, etc; aside (esp in the phrases setorput apart)
3.	separate in time, place, or position; at a distance: he stood apart from the group; two points three feet apart
4.	not being taken into account; aside: these difficulties apart, the project ran smoothly
5.	individual; distinct; separate: a race apart
6.	separately or independently in use, thought, or function: considered apart, his reasoning was faulty
7.	(preposition) apart from besides; other than

[C14: from Old French a part at (the) side]

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Word Origin & History

apart

late 14c., from O.Fr. à part "to the side," from L. ad "to" + partem accusative of pars "a side" (see part).

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Idioms & Phrases

apart

In addition to the idiom beginning with apart, also see come apart; fall apart; pick apart; poles apart; set apart; take apart; tear apart; tell apart.