Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To undo the joining of; separate.
- intransitive verb To become separated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sever the junction or union of; dissolve or break up the connection of; disunite; sunder: as, to disjoin the parts of a machine; they have disjoined their interests.
- To prevent from junction or union; keep separate or apart; divide.
- To be separated; part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
- intransitive verb To become separated; to part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
separate . - verb intransitive To become
separated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become separated, disconnected or disjoint
- verb make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Nevertheless, pretending to disjoin them helps organize our thoughts.
Notes on Writing From Writers of Note « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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When the present boys shall come into possession, and possibly not till then, shall there be a most sweeping reform in the church and state, — the blow to disjoin them will be a hard one.
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"The God who gave us life," he wrote, "gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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Others have made private offers, on their own separate account, to disjoin their forces from the camp of the Kings of Frangistan, and even to lend their arms to the defence of the standard of the Prophet.
The Talisman 2008
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"The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
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The most obvious hybrid views simply conjoin or disjoin the probability and process views.
The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Archive 2006-07-02 BRN 2006
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Archive 2006-07-02 BRN 2006
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
July 08, 2006 BRN 2006
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
July 08, 2006 BRN 2006
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