apart

Meanings

1. 1
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   not taken into account or excluded from consideration

   these problems apart, the country is doing well

2. 2
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   into parts or pieces

   I took my father's watch apart.

3. 3
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   separated or at a distance in place or position or time

   These towns are many miles apart

4. 4
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   one from the other

   people can't tell the twins apart

5. 5
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   placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

   had a feeling of being set apart

6. 6
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   away from another or others

   they grew apart over the years

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   Placed separately (in regard to space or time).

   We had a large bus and I had two of them at the front and two at the back, and I had to sit in the middle and keep them apart.

8. 8
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   Separately, exclusively, not together.

   Consider the two propositions apart.

Etymology

From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).