Apart

/əˈpɑːt/ · adverb

Meaning

Placed separately (in regard to space or time)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
2. Separately, exclusively, not together.
3. In or into two or more parts.
4. To the side; aside.
5. Excluded from consideration.
6. (after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct.
7. Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.
8. Separate, on the side.

Example Sentences

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.

Others apart sat on a hill retired.

But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.

Consider the two propositions apart.

We took the computer apart and put it back together.

Love, love will tear us apart, again.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Let Pleasure go, put Care apart.

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Word Forms

• more apart
• further apart
• farther apart
• most apart
• furthest apart
• farthest apart

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