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apart
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adverb (r)

  • separated or at a distance in place or position or time(adv.all)
    Example:
    These towns are many miles apart.
    Stood with his legs apart.
    Born two years apart.
    source: wordnet30
  • not taken into account or excluded from consideration(adv.all)
    Example:
    These problems apart, the country is doing well.
    source: wordnet30
  • away from another or others(adv.all)
    Example:
    They grew apart over the years.
    Kept apart from the group out of shyness.
    Decided to live apart.
    source: wordnet30
  • placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose(adv.all)
    Example:
    Had a feeling of being set apart.
    Quality sets it apart.
    source: wordnet30
  • one from the other(adv.all)
    Example:
    People can't tell the twins apart.
    source: wordnet30
  • into parts or pieces(adv.all)
    Example:
    He took his father's watch apart.
    Split apart.
    source: wordnet30
  • Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.(adverb)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • remote and separate physically or socially(adj.all)
    Example:
    Existed over the centuries as a world apart.
    Preserved because they inhabited a place apart.
    Synonym:
    isolated, obscure
    source: wordnet30
  • having characteristics not shared by others(adj.all)
    Example:
    Scientists felt they were a group apart.
    source: wordnet30
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