Separations - English meaning

noun

The state of being objective or aloof.

Usage examples:

He felt a sense of detachment from what was going on

noun

A group of soldiers who are separated from the main group in order to perform a particular duty

Usage examples:

A detachment of paratroopers

noun

A feeling of not being emotionally involved

Usage examples:

Air of detachment she had an air of detachment about her.

noun

→  dissociation

noun

The state of being isolated or detached.

Usage examples:

I felt a sense of disconnection from the city environment

noun

A lack of correspondence or consistency.

Usage examples:

There is a disjunction between the skills taught in education and those demanded in the labour market

noun

The action of disconnecting or separating or the state of being disconnected.

Usage examples:

We in the west honour a long-standing dissociation between church and state

noun

The fact of being separate from and not related to something else

Usage examples:

The work finds a fairly complete dissociation between learning and sleep., the evaluation of materi…

noun

The action of separating yourself, or considering yourself to be separate, from something or someone

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Dissociation from a movement grew, demanding dissociation from the war and for britain to withdraw …

noun

The breaking up of something such as a federation.

Usage examples:

His rejection of disunion was consistent with his nationalism

noun

A situation in which people disagree so much that they can no longer work or exist together in an effective way

Usage examples:

Differences in language can sometimes cause disunion between countries., the team succeeded in prod…

noun

The action or state of separating

Usage examples:

The argument in favour of disunion was not presented honestly., for the uk, disunion from scotland …

noun

The action of leaving or being separated from someone.

Usage examples:

They exchanged a few words on parting

verb

(of two things) move away from each other.

Usage examples:

His lips parted in a smile

noun

The act of leaving or of moving apart

Usage examples:

[ c ] it was a sad parting, because we knew it was the last time we would see each other., she gave…

noun

(especially with reference to a country with separate areas of government) the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

Usage examples:

The country's partition into separate states

verb

Divide into parts.

Usage examples:

An agreement was reached to partition the country

noun

The division of something into smaller parts, or something that divides a space

Usage examples:

[ u ] the partition of the building into separate apartments brought in enough income that she coul…

noun

The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

Usage examples:

The segregation of pupils with learning difficulties

noun

The action of ending a connection or relationship.

Usage examples:

The severance and disestablishment of the irish church

verb

Break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain.

Usage examples:

The ice cracked and split

noun

A tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain.

Usage examples:

Splits appeared in the decaying planks

proper noun

A seaport on the coast of southern croatia; population 177,500 (est. 2009). founded as a roman colony in 78 bc, it contains the ruins of the palace of the emperor diocletian, built in about ad 300.

verb

Split apart.

Usage examples:

A universe sundered ages ago in a divine war

verb

To break something apart

Usage examples:

The last few bubbles rose from the sundered ship.

verb

Disconnect (something, especially a railway vehicle that has been coupled to another).

Usage examples:

They uncoupled the engine

verb

Present participle of uncouple

Usage examples:

The engine had been uncoupled from the rest of the train.