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  • adjective Not detached.

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un- +‎ detached

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Examples

  • His collars were "undetached" (blame haberdashery for the word); his tie was a narrow, funereal strip, tied in the same knot as were his shoe-strings.

    Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

  • More generally, van Inwagen denies the existence of what he calls “arbitrary undetached parts”:

    Material Constitution Wasserman, Ryan 2009

  • As far as our usage dispositions go, ˜rabbit™ could mean undetached rabbit part, ˜vat™ could mean vat image, and ˜plus™ could mean quus.

    The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

  • The Florida counties that had the massive undetached chad problems of all stripes (pregnant, hanging, swinging, etc.), were also counties that had neglected maintenance, and had rarely or never cleaned out the chad receptacle under the platform.

    Sound Politics: Rush Holt should have spoken up two years ago 2006

  • Of course, there are even more exotic possibilities: "Lo, a momentary rabbit-stage" or "Lo, undetached rabbit parts."

    Why languages can't be learned josh 2007

  • Upon further reflection (trust me on this), you could never winnow away the possibilites and arrive at the meaning of "gavagai" ... that is, never unless you are making some assumptions about what the tribesman could mean (that is, if you assume definitions involving undetached rabbit parts are too unlikely to even consider).

    Archive 2007-12-01 josh 2007

  • Upon further reflection (trust me on this), you could never winnow away the possibilites and arrive at the meaning of "gavagai" ... that is, never unless you are making some assumptions about what the tribesman could mean (that is, if you assume definitions involving undetached rabbit parts are too unlikely to even consider).

    Why languages can't be learned josh 2007

  • Of course, there are even more exotic possibilities: "Lo, a momentary rabbit-stage" or "Lo, undetached rabbit parts."

    Archive 2007-12-01 josh 2007

  • After all, a tail-complement seemed like a dubious object from the beginning, and if there is no such thing as Tib, we don't have to explain what relationship holds between Tib and Tibbles (we may grandly deny that cats have ˜arbitrary undetached parts™).

    Temporal Parts Hawley, Katherine 2004

  • But the tendency to rapid sinking in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

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