adjective
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(Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct.
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a world apart
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Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.
adverb
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Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
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Separately, exclusively, not together
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Consider the two propositions apart.
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Aside; away.
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In or into two or more parts.
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We took the computer apart and put it back together.
Examples of apart in a Sentence
They tore apart the palace and your cabin.
We can't let this fall apart on us, Ben.
I blew apart the last thug that tried to get in here.
I feel like we're drifting apart here.
You were born two years apart.
Lydia Larkin stood, feet apart, in the classic shooting position, both hands clamped on her smoking gun.
Apart from that, the chief source of our error in this matter is due to the fact that in the historical accounts a whole series of innumerable, diverse, and petty events, such for instance as all those which led the French armies to Russia, is generalized into one event in accord with the result produced by that series of events.
I hope we never drift apart that way again.
By that point, other things fell apart that I couldn't fix.
These two are about fifty kilometers apart in different directions.
Apart from these two concepts which in their union mutually define one another as form and content, no conception of life is possible.
He pulled the joint apart.
But there's no way to prove it—a good attorney would rip those allegations apart like a wet newspaper.
The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther edge of the clearing.
This consciousness is a source of self-cognition quite apart from and independent of reason.
Of his life we know little apart from his works.
The slur on my name and honor--that's all apart from myself.
With their faces inches apart, they assessed each other.
One couple is sleeping apart, so I suppose Ginger and Joseph are already estranged.
He and Paul died in the same hospital, three days apart.
I thought about it, but I couldn't tell the trunks apart.
Her face was cold but her plump lips were warm, soft, her lips parting for him before he prodded them apart.
Father and Andre always said we were stronger together than apart.
We can't just sit down and pull the stuff apart.
Why did he have to wait until her figure started to fall apart before he complained about seldom seeing her in a dress?
So, we're not breaking up, just taking time apart.
The balloon carries two collectors a given vertical distance apart.
Painful relations between father and son, quite apart from the personal antipathies already existing, were therefore inevitable.
Apart from the above-mentioned division of the striped members of both groups into two types according to the pattern of their markings, the domesticated cats of western Europe are divided into a short-haired and a long-haired group. Of these, the former is the one which bears the closest relationship to the wild cats of Africa and of Europe, the latter being an importation from the East.
Apart from the weighty objections that the Edomites would have frustrated such a recrudescence of the remnant Jews as has been described, it must be remembered that the main stream of Jewish life and thought had been diverted to Babylon.
All the other teeth are simple, conical, minute and placed at considerable and irregular intervals apart in the jaws, the number appearing to vary in different individuals and even on different sides of the jaw of the same indi viduals.
The monastic buildings required for public purposes have been made over to the communal and provincial authorities, while the same authorities have been entrusted with the administration of the ecclesiastical revenues previously set apart for charity and education, and objects of art and historical interest have been consigned to public libraries and museums. By these laws the reception of novices was forbidden in the existing conventual establishments the extinction of which had been decreed, and all new foundations were forbidden, except those engaged in instruction and the care of the sick.
Apart from hunting and fishing, the exploitation of the forests provides the principal occupation of the inhabitants.
In the week that followed, they drifted further apart.
When you left, the demons were pouring in, the Lake of Souls was bubbling and everything else was falling apart.
The demons had been able to enter her realm when the sky broke apart.
She heard the kid scream and hunched her shoulders, nearly vomiting at the sounds of his body being torn apart.
The taste of your sweet nectar before I tear you apart?
She recalled the scent of her blood, what hot agony felt like as an otherworldly creature tore her apart.
And the puzzles in the newspaper break the words apart.
He has no hold on you if you decide you want to live apart.
I am miserable in your absence yet the simple memory of you is enough to sustain me during those interminably long intervals when we are apart.
Jackson had never been so happy, and at ease, and she loved Connor with all her heart, yet she was a little sad, feeling they were growing apart.
He watched for a while then said, "If I come in there, you promise not to rip me apart?"
She crossed her legs at the ankles, and he planted one knee between her thighs, driving them apart.
Her Guardian was the only stability she'd known since the world fell apart.
Lana, you know enough about the PMF to know they're the only force—perhaps in the world—with the ability to survive the government tearing itself apart.
She heard Gabriel shout something that was lost in the roar of the ground splitting apart.
You want me to let the Council break apart.
Katie touched the roots ensnaring the sleeping woman's ankle. The mess baffled her, as if the roots themselves had reached out to grab Deidre's ankles instead of her slipping and stumbling into them. The gnarly roots were twisted and thick, wrapped too tightly for her to pry them apart.