单词 | disconnected |
释义 | disconnectedadj. 1. a. Having no connection or association; unconnected, separate; detached. In predicative use frequently with with, from. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > not joined, united, or connected uncoupled1377 unjoined1538 unclosed1551 unknitting1587 ununited1587 unknit1603 incommunicated1646 discontiguous1656 incontiguous1660 open1686 inconnected1742 disconnected1751 incoherent1768 uncemented1783 unconnected1829 disaffiliated1839 disconnect1845 inarticulate1852 unarticulated1861 ununified1862 1751 J. Roche Moravian Heresy v. 231 Belching, out a Parcel of frothy disconnected Phrases and Prayers. 1752 T. Pownall Princ. Polity ii. 95 It is essential to the Preservation of the Empire to keep them disconnected and independent of each other. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xv. 316 An Allegory is, or may be, allowed to stand more disconnected with the literal meaning. 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 177 The chronology being reduced to disconnected dates, instead of presenting an unbroken series. 1831 Westm. Rev. 14 51 An inland sea, totally disconnected from the ocean. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 162 Ravens, with throat-feathers acute, lengthened, disconnected. 1890 Jrnl. Jurispr. 34 493 The water flowed over into the disconnected pipe, and thence into the holds. 1928 Sunday Express 29 Apr. 4 ‘Piccadilly’, Arnold Bennett's original story.., is said to be not wholly disconnected with his novel ‘The Pretty Lady’. 1978 N.Y. Mag. 13 Feb. 40/1 The life-style is largely Old World and peaceful, disconnected from the problems of the rest of Park Slope. 2011 Independent 13 Oct. 41/5 A 22-mile former loopline railway acts as an eco-friendly orbital route..linking previously disconnected parts of the city. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adjective] low-bornc1275 ungentlec1374 unnoblea1382 bastardly1552 baseborn1553 ingenerous1621 lowly born1623 earth-born1630 unpedigreed1787 birthless1817 unaristocratic1841 disconnected1847 pedigreeless1859 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. i. 18 A Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain. c. Of an electrical device, telephone, etc.: that has been disconnected (disconnect v. 2b, 2c). ΚΠ 1881 Jrnl. Soc. Telegr. Engineers & Electricians 10 27 The following experiments have reference principally to the effect produced by connecting condensers to the disconnected telephone. 1918 A. Latzko Men in War ii. 100 He saw..the disconnected telephone at the entrance. 1938 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 13 July 3/5 Mrs. Hazel was seated near the disconnected radio when the lightning struck a tree in the backyard of her home. 1984 Operator's Instr. 40-ton Crane (U.S. Dept. Army) 2-6/2 Engine could not run with dead or disconnected battery unless circuit was completed around battery. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 10 Feb. 46 At the tourist information office, a sign on top of a disconnected television promised the video, Wiltshire: A Timeless Enigma. 2008 W. Panek et al. MCTS ix. 463 After the download is complete, you can export the updates and then import the updates to the disconnected network. d. Of a person or group: detached from society, reality, etc.; isolated; disengaged. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] > isolated solec1407 lonely1645 lone1668 isolated1763 apart1786 isolate1819 shut-out1853 disconnected1919 1919 Proc. Ann. Congr. Amer. Prison Assoc. 418 A delinquent girl is apt to feel disconnected since she has failed to acknowledge her responsibilities to anyone. 1922 J. Addams Peace & Bread in Time of War ii. 38 The men confessed..that they had longed for the feel of tools in their hands, that they had felt disconnected and unhappy. 1961 Town Planning Rev. 32 84/2 Lonely, socially disconnected people staring suspiciously and enviously at their neighbours. 1985 Phi Delta Kappan 67 251/3 Call on policy makers..to focus imaginatively and boldly on the problems of disconnected youth. 2008 C. R. Jenkins & J. Frederick Reluctant Communist iii. 34 I came away from that first meeting shaking my head at what a strange, simple, and disconnected man he was. 2. Having the constituent parts badly connected; without logical connection. Also: (of a speaker or writer) incoherent, rambling. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected unjointed1588 disjointed1593 checkie-wise1603 rambling1632 loose1638 unconnexed1716 disconnected1777 snipped1806 dot and go one1818 spasmodic1832 spotty1843 snippety1864 rantipole1866 splathering1929 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. 446 If..the arrangement of events in his work had not been rendered so perplexed, disconnected, and obscure, [etc.]. 1802 Monthly Rev. 37 463 As in describing so disconnected and multifarious a work as the one before us, it is difficult and perhaps useless to preserve any order. 1868 Musical Standard 24 Oct. 161/1 The harmony..is sufficiently disconnected and unpleasant to satisfy the most liberal minded of discord-mongers. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 157 He [sc. a lecturer] was disconnected. 1870 Daily News 10 Oct. 2/2 The plot is complicated and disconnected. 1942 Billboard 7 Mar. 9/3 It is a dull, disconnected, hopelessly episodic and frequently silly discussion. 2002 B. McGuinness Approaches to Wittgenstein xxii. 255 The slips in their original date and order, where known, would have produced a rather disconnected text. Derivatives discoˈnnectedly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adverb] > in a disjoined or disconnected manner disjoinedly?a1560 distractedly1608 disjointly1634 disjunctly1649 disconnectedly1807 unconnectedly1816 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb] > disconnectedly disjointly1621 ramblinglya1641 unconnectedly1778 disconnectedly1807 disjointedly1869 zigzaggedly1921 1807 Pittsburgh Gaz. 4 Aug. 2/1 One or two expressions..are considered disconnectedly with what precedes and follows. 1864 Athenæum No. 1920. 215/3 Accomplished disconnectedly during growth. 1949 D. Thomas Let. 2 Nov. (1987) 724 All I could do was to talk, disconnectedly, about myself. 2009 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 7 Nov. 10 A ‘bewildering array of..governmental and semi-official bodies working disconnectedly or even at cross-purposes’. discoˈnnectedness n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] > disconnectedness inconnection1620 disjointedness1655 desultoriness1661 unconnection1766 disconnection1815 disconnectedness1823 snippetiness1878 1823 L. T. Berguer in Brit. Essayists 1 Pref. p. xvi So many abrupt transitions..gave the paper a character of disconnectedness and superficiality. 1880 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 291 The rescue of meteorological researches from that disorder and disconnectedness which had always characterized the observational work. 1925 M. Sturt Psychol. Time v. 104 It is possible that it is not only the number but the disconnectedness of mental events which affects the judgment of duration. 2012 Bournemouth Echo (Nexis) 18 May Being incapable of expressing yourself emotionally..leads to disconnectedness and depression. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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