Apart

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apart \A*part"\, adv. [F. [`a] part; (L. ad) + part part. See
     {Part}.]
     1. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of
        separation as to place; aside.
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              Others apart sat on a hill retired.   --Milton.
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              The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for
              himself.                              --Ps. iv. 3.
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     2. In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction,
        as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of
        thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two
        propositions apart.
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     3. Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
        superfluity of naughtiness." --Jas. i. 21.
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              Let Pleasure go, put Care apart.      --Keble.
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     4. In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a
        piece of machinery apart.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apart
       adj 1: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over
              the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because
              they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny
              isolated villages remote from centers of
              civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: {apart(p)},
              {isolated}, {obscure}]
       2: not living together as man and wife; "decided to live
          apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are
          separated" [syn: {apart(p)}, {separate}, {separated}]
       3: having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists
          felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush [syn: {apart(p)}]
       adv 1: separated or at a distance in place or position or time;
              "These towns are many miles apart"; "stood with his
              legs apart"; "born two years apart"
       2: not taken into account or excluded from consideration;
          "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all
          joking aside, I think you're crazy" [syn: {aside}]
       3: away from another or others; "they grew apart over the
          years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness";
          "decided to live apart"
       4: placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had
          a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a
          day set aside for relaxing" [syn: {aside}]
       5: one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart"
       6: into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart";
          "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: {asunder}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  134 Moby Thesaurus words for "apart":
     a huis clos, adrift, alien, alienated, all to pieces, alone, aloof,
     apart from, aside, aside from, asunder, at a distance, away,
     away from, behind closed doors, besides, bipartite, by itself,
     by two, companionless, detached, dichotomous, disconnected,
     discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distal,
     distant, distinct, distinctly, divergent, except for, excepting,
     excluding, exotic, extraneous, far, far off, faraway, fifty-fifty,
     foreign, friendless, half-and-half, homeless, in a backwater,
     in camera, in chambers, in executive session, in half, in halves,
     in privacy, in private, in private conference, in privy,
     in the abstract, in the singular, in twain, in two, incoherent,
     incommensurable, incomparable, independent, independently,
     individually, insular, irrelative, isolate, isolated,
     januis clausis, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, long-distance,
     long-range, noncohesive, not counting, once, one by one, other,
     out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, particularly,
     partitioned, per se, piecemeal, privately, privily, quarantined,
     remote, removed, retired, rootless, secluded, segregate,
     segregated, separate, separated, separately, severally, shut off,
     single-handed, single-handedly, singly, singularly, sky-high,
     solitary, solo, strange, to one side, unabetted, unaccompanied,
     unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated,
     unattached, unattended, unconnected, unescorted, unfrequented,
     unjoined, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported,
     unvisited, wide apart, wide away, withdrawn