Definition of Disjoin

1. Verb. Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of.

Exact synonyms: Disjoint
Causes: Disjoint
Generic synonyms: Disunite, Divide, Part, Separate
Derivative terms: Disjunction, Disjunctive, Disjuncture
Antonyms: Join

2. Verb. Become separated, disconnected or disjoint.
Exact synonyms: Disjoint
Generic synonyms: Divide, Part, Separate
Derivative terms: Disjunction, Disjunctive, Disjuncture
Antonyms: Join

Definition of Disjoin

1. v. t. To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.

2. v. i. To become separated; to part.

Definition of Disjoin

1. Verb. (transitive) To separate. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become separated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disjoin

1. to separate [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: separate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disjoin

disinvigorating
disinvite
disinvited
disinvites
disinviting
disinvolve
disinvolved
disinvolves
disinvolving
disir
disject
disjected
disjecting
disjection
disjects
disjoin (current term)
disjoined
disjoined pyeloplasty
disjoining
disjoins
disjoint
disjointed
disjointedly
disjointedness
disjointing
disjointly
disjointness
disjoints
disjunct
disjunction

Literary usage of Disjoin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Sec disjoin. From he same source, disjunct-ive, disjunct-ive-ly. DISLIKE, not to like, to disapprove of. (L. and E.) In Shak. eas. i. 2. 18. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"He held that the understanding can only join and disjoin given facts, without explaining them, and that knowledge deduced in this way is conditioned and ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1827)
"... and Edinburgh—Privilege of Members not to be summoned on Juries—Restoration of forfeited Scottish Peerages—Debate on Motion to disjoin the Presidency of ..."

4. Anacreon by Anacreon, Thomas Stanley, Arthur Henry Bullen (1893)
"... But by a divorce so slight Be disjoin'd, may cheat the sight : From her kindly killing eye Make a flash of lightning fly, Sparkling like Minerva's, ..."

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