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Disconnect   /dɪskənˈɛkt/   Listen
Disconnect

verb
(past & past part. disconnected; pres. part. disconnecting)
1.
Pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable.  Synonym: unplug.
2.
Make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten.





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"Disconnect" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a moment to disconnect our thinking selves from the mask of humanity; let us imagine ourselves scientific Saturnians, if you will, fairly acquainted with such animals as now inhabit the earth, and employed in discussing the relations they bear to a new and singular 'erect and featherless biped,' which some enterprising ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell
... Now, if we disconnect the battery and join the two platinum electrodes of the voltameter by a wire, we shall find a current flowing out of the voltameter as though it were a battery, but in the reverse direction to the original current which decomposed the water. ...
— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro


Words linked to "Disconnect" :   disparity, separate, plug in, disunite, undo, divide, detach, decouple, connect, part, uncouple


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