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detached

[dih-tacht]

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adjective

not attached; separated: a detached ticket stub.

having no wall in common with another building (opposed to attached): a detached house.

impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased: a detached judgment.

not involved or concerned; aloof.

Origin:
1700–10; detach + -ed²

Related forms

de·tached·ly

[dih-tach-id-lee, -tacht-lee] , adverb

de·tach·ed·ness, noun

un·de·tached, adjective

Synonyms
3. uninvolved, neutral, evenhanded, dispassionate, unprejudiced.

Antonyms
1, 2. attached.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Retinal detachment repair is eye surgery to place a detached retina back into its normal position.

Even instructors can feel a little detached sometimes.

Long-term unemployment is harder to cure, as people's skills atrophy and they become detached from the workforce.

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Retinal detachment repair is eye surgery to place a detached retina back into its normal position.

Even instructors can feel a little detached sometimes.

Long-term unemployment is harder to cure, as people's skills atrophy and they become detached from the workforce.

The two craft went into lunar orbit, and the module detached for landing on the moon.

Mike became increasingly angry, paranoid and detached.

Stylish looks will make it difficult to maintain your affectation of detached ennui.

Increasingly, they comprise the hard-to-employ, lacking in skills and long detached from the world of work.

The predator is distracted by the detached tail and the lizard can escape.

People with old spinal cord injuries have torn and detached tissues that have been encapsulated by scar tissue.

Cylindrical, easily detached joints are covered with vicious silvery yellow spines.

Components can be removed and detached from other components.

His detached management style-setting broad goals and letting underlings implement them-relies on putting good people in place.

The trail light can be worn as a headlamp or detached to be used as a lantern.

He has had strabismis repair, detached retinas, scalar an buckeles.

I'd think someone was paying them for detached body parts, but that's crazy talk.

Younger workers often have a similarly detached relationship with the city.

Also called a detached house smart growth: noun: method of development that serves the community and the environment.

It takes high-resolution images and comes with a flash that can be detached to make it even smaller.

Levittown was the original suburbia: a place of identical detached single-family houses with white picket fences.

The small profile plate accommodates all compact digital cameras and allows the camera to be attached and detached quickly.

Its champions often seem wild-eyed or romantic, or driven by old resentments, or detached from economic reality.

Yet tourism development is at best haphazard, chaotic, and detached from a policy for conservation.

Yet his slightly detached air has made a comeback, of sorts, fairly easy.

The violence comes up in conversation only glancingly, as a detached happenstance, thoroughly surreal.

Reportedly, its discoverers detached the head when they realized the metal statue was too heavy to carry away intact.

Creative ideas for backyard retreats, detached home offices, and.

There are an attached one-car garage and a detached three-car garage.

Jensen also rejects any suggestion that his department is detached from the real world.

In less esoteric words, this game rewards fluid movements and a detached awareness of the game's stimuli.

Chisco makes double and even triple keyrings connected by short straps and easily detached or reconnected.

Most of those homes will be single-family, detached units built beyond the edge of today's newest suburbs.

Produces numerous offsets, which may be detached for use in propagation.

If you think about this as a bike trailer which can be detached for short-hauls than it makes a lot more sense:.

Names detached from their owners, they ceased to have complexities and contradictions.

We have an apple falling a distance that is a set of increments below the branch it detached from.

The scientists posit that the compound was part of a shell, which became detached from the star by a shock wave.

Arguing a position you don't actually believe in allows you to be detached from the debate rather than emotionally involved.

Most of us are, or were ignorant and completely detached from our connectiveness and reliance on a healthier.

There is a lot of crime but it is always solved by cool detached cops with high tech devices.

Markets came detached from underlying fundamentals to varying degrees during the housing bubble.

Plus these are the same, boring interpretations detached from the realities of the day.

But one would expect medical research strategies to be more detached from the emotional trauma of.

Put another way, the paper flags how central bank interest-rate decisions have become detached from the nation's money stock.

It's because they are detached from events in the real world.

It makes you detached from your emotions because you're not face to face dealing with real people and real confrontation.

These policies seem to be entirely detached from all logic.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite.

Military. to send away (a regiment, ship, etc.) on a special mission.

Origin:
1470–80; < Middle French détacher, Old French destachier; see dis-¹, attach

Related forms

de·tach·a·ble, adjective

de·tach·a·bil·i·ty, noun

de·tach·a·bly, adverb

de·tach·er, noun

non·de·tach·a·bil·i·ty, noun

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non·de·tach·a·ble, adjective

pre·de·tach, verb (used with object)

self-de·tach·ing, adjective

un·de·tach·a·ble, adjective

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Collins

World English Dictionary

detached (dɪˈtætʃt)

—*adj*
1.	disconnected or standing apart; not attached: a detached house
2.	having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested
3.	social welfare Compare outreach working at the clients' normal location rather than from an office; not dependent on premises for providing a service: a detached youth worker
4.	ophthalmol (of the retina) separated from the choroid layer of the eyeball to which it is normally attached, resulting in loss of vision in the affected part

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Word Origin & History

detach

1680s, from Fr. détacher, from O.Fr. destachier, from des- "apart" + attachier "attach" (see attach).

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

detach de·tach (dĭ-tāch')
v. de·tached, de·tach·ing, de·tach·es

To separate or unfasten; disconnect.
To remove from association or union with something.

detached adj.

Separated; disconnected.
Standing apart from others; separate.

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