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Meaning of apart

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  apart
      adv 1: 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"
      2: not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these
         problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking
         aside, I think you're crazy" [syn: {apart}, {aside}]
      3: away from another or others; "they grew apart over the
         years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided
         to live apart"
      4: 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" [syn: {aside}, {apart}]
      5: one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart"
      6: into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart";
         "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: {apart}, {asunder}]
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {apart(p)}, {isolated}, {obscure}]
      2: having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt
         they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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