apart : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: apart	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for apart
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
apart adv 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" not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy" Synonym(s): apart, aside away from another or others; "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart" 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" Synonym(s): aside, apart one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart" into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder" Synonym(s): apart, asunder adj 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" Synonym(s): apart(p), isolated, obscure having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Apart \Apart"\, adv. [F. [85] part; (L. ad) + part part. See {Part}.] 1. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. Others apart* sat on a hill retired. --Milton. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. --Ps. iv. 3. 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. 3. Aside; away. [bd]Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness.[b8] --Jas. i. 21. Let Pleasure go, put Care apart. --Keble. 4. In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.