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apart

If two things are apart, there is space between them. Scientists theorize that Pangaea drifted apart into the different continents that exist on Earth today.

apart

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 (= aside) not taken into account or excluded from consideration these problems apart, the country is doing well all joking aside, I think you're crazy away from another or others they grew apart over the years kept apart from the group out of shyness decided to live apart (= isolated, obscure) 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 one from the other people can't tell the twins apart (= asunder) into parts or pieces he took his father's watch apart split apart torn asunder having characteristics not shared by others scientists felt they were a group apart — Vannever Bush (= aside) 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

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Can you tell silver and tin apart?
Their relationship is falling apart.
The house is falling apart before our eyes.
They want to see us apart.
The old social system is slowly falling apart.
I have trouble telling Tom and his brother apart.
It doesn't concern anybody apart from me and my family.
I took the radio apart to repair it.
It came apart.
The boy took the radio apart.
The twins were so alike that it was difficult to tell them apart.
Can you tell the twins apart?
The boat was seen to draw apart from the others.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith live apart from each other now.
Jane used to be one of my best friends at school but we've drifted apart over the past few years.
The poor dog was literally torn apart by the lion.
Apart from a few minor mistakes, your composition was excellent.
Joking apart, you ought to see a doctor about your headache.
Apart from a few mistakes, your composition was excellent.
The brothers were born twelve years apart.
I sat apart from them.
Apart from a few spelling mistakes, it is a good composition.
It is sometimes difficult to tell twins apart.
Apart from the cost, the dress doesn't suit me.
Apart from cats, I like animals.
Apart from his parents, no one knows him well.

Movie subtitles

Now the terror groups in Area 11 will lose their popular support and fall apart.
In the space of just a generation, in the fifth century AD, the Roman Empire in Western Europe essentially fell apart - the aqueducts dried up, the roads overgrown, the circuses deserted.
The lovers were banished to live apart forever.
I mean, look at me, I'm falling apart here.
You could take it apart and give it back?
Apart from wilful damage, disorderly behaviour and assault of a police officer?
Apart from bad luck for Evan and Maureen.
Being here, being apart.
Sometime I'm gonna take one of you volunteers apart. and find out what makes you leave school and join the army.
Apart from the world.
Father, do you think it fair to keep us apart for so long?
We're too unhappy apart.
The wood's so rotten, it'll fall apart at a touch.
The cunning of Frankenstein in his mountain laboratory, picking dead men apart and building up a human monster so fearful and so horrible that only a half-crazed brain could have devised.
And towards the edges of the disc the stars were further and further apart.
So, he took everything apart and spent a year building a better receiver.
He's all I've got, apart from a picture of George Washington.
Our Prince Charles, who has fought for us. is kept apart and scorned!
Push the engine and this car will fall apart.
Another day like this, and I'll fall apart.
Captain Bligh, apart from the conversation you overheard was Mr. Byam's previous conduct such that you believe him guilty?
We've lost hundreds of men apart from those who died from the cold and sickness.
It's difficult to tell them apart.
Aw, sit down, old lady, before you fall apart.
You and Marguerite are safer apart.
Nick, this whole thing, it's torn our crew apart.
Friendships were being torn apart, and everything was getting messed up.
Or I will rip her apart.
I'm gonna tear you apart.
Tear me apart.
You ain't gonna tear nobody apart.
I've lived a life apart.

News and current affairs

In fact, arguing over grievances merely drives the sides further apart.
BERKELEY - On the back left corner of my desk right now are three recent books: Arthur Brooks' The Battle, Charles Murray's Coming Apart, and Nicholas Eberstadt's A Nation of Takers.
Ochoa's sentence, apart from its extravagant cruelty, may ultimately cost taxpayers as much as a million dollars.
Only by taking these systems apart in the brain have neuro-scientists been able to figure out that these are different kinds of memory, rather than one memory with multiple forms of expression.
The United Nations is torn apart by internal tensions.
Slightly apart from these are the new social sciences, which deal with humans and societies.
This stubbornness made matters worse when things finally fell apart.
Apart from discouraging banks from investing abroad, outright restrictions on foreign banks' market access cannot be ruled out, either.
Consider parallels ten years apart.
He leads a party that is increasingly opposed to any European project apart from trade.
Apart from the direct effects on economic growth and job creation, broadband can have some other very important benefits for Least Developed Countries.
Political developments in Czechoslovakia during the last 20 years of communism set the Czech Republic and Slovakia apart from both Poland and Hungary.
Simultaneously, continuing ethnic tensions between Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, and Han Chinese threatened to tear the region apart along local and tribal lines.
Progress toward reconciling US and EU rules on derivatives - one of the main causes of the financial crisis - has fallen apart.
In this instance, it is impossible to pry them apart.
Apart from electric-power generation, coal also has wide application in a number of industries.
Quite apart from their concerns about the robustness of the rebound in the economy, investors are uncertain about many financial firms' business models, and about the future size, shape, and profitability of the financial sector in general.
Quite apart from daily sunlight, for instance, Earth is bombarded by all sorts of other radiation from outside our solar system.
America today presents the paradox of a rich country falling apart because of the collapse of its core values.
Now, with his China strategy falling apart, Obama is seeking to do exactly what his predecessor attempted - to line up partners as an insurance policy in case China's rising power slides into arrogance.
Bolivia seems to be in danger of falling apart.
But that proposal fell apart, and, amid pressure from corruption scandals and falling commodity prices, Brazil left the global stage.
Apart from his complete control of domestic politics, Thaksin commands other prerequisites of regional leadership.
When they died just a day apart this month, the contrast was hard for the global commentariat to resist: Prague's prince of light against Pyongyang's prince of darkness.

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