disjoint
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 8
Definition of disjoint
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
“Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London”
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adj
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Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.
“Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London”
- (not-comparable)Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
verb
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To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
“Near-synonyms: unjoin; disassemble, take apart”
“to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving”
“Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame.”
“As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place.”
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To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
“a disjointed speech”
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(obsolete)To fall into pieces.
“But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
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