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apart

[ uh-pahrt ]

adverb

  1. into pieces or parts; to pieces:

    to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.

  2. separately in place, time, motion, etc.:

    New York and Tokyo are thousands of miles apart. Our birthdays are three days apart.

  3. 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.

  4. separately or individually in consideration:

    each factor viewed apart from the others.

  5. aside (used with a gerund or noun):

    Joking apart, what do you think?



adjective

  1. having independent or unique qualities, features, or characteristics; separate (usually used following the noun it modifies):

    a class apart.

verb phrase

    1. to disassemble:

      to take a clock apart.

    2. Informal. to criticize; attack:

      She was taken apart for her controversial stand.

    3. to subject to intense examination:

      He will take your feeble excuses apart.

apart

/ əˈpɑːt /

adjective

  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 set or put apart )
  3. separate in time, place, or position; at a distance

    two points three feet apart

    he stood apart from the group

  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. apart from
    preposition besides; other than
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • a·part·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of apart1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Old French a part “to one side”; a- 5, part
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Word History and Origins

Origin of apart1

C14: from Old French a part at (the) side
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. apart from, aside from; in addition to:

    Apart from other considerations, time is a factor.

More idioms and phrases containing 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 .
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Example Sentences

The key metric here is the aforementioned heart rate variability, or HRV, and WHOOP’s ability to calculate it sets it apart from other wearable fitness trackers.

Cities have come apart before when confronted with the outbreak of disease.

The starting point for that is to break things apart into these different phenomena like energy-harvesting, self-replication, et cetera.

The new electric Hummer should appeal to those seeking to stand apart from others, Williamson said.

From Fortune

After it is cast and cooled down, the mold is dropped on a vibrating machine called the shakeout, which breaks the sand apart to reveal the pan.

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The man, Joshua Kemp, told what police describe as “a bogus story that quickly fell apart.”

Apart from the video, the Saraya Al-Khorasani group has made no official declaration that it is linked to Taghavi.

Days away from her dream being fulfilled, it all fell apart.

The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.

What sets him apart from so many of his contemporaries was his rare immunity from the influence of prevailing ideas.

Moreover, most of the burrows were only a few feet apart and no agonistic behavior was witnessed.

Not a few of these are extremely beautiful, and are well worth growing on this account, quite apart from their peculiarity.

He went himself to the kitchen, which was a building apart from the cottages and lying to the rear of the house.

All Koreans pay great honour to their dead parents, and tablets to their memory are placed in some room set apart for the purpose.

It has a training value entirely apart‌ from its practical value in that case.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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