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单词 to take apart
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to take apart
to take apart
1. transitive. To take (a person) aside in order to speak privately. Now rare.
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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 256 At after dyner daun Iohn sobrely This chapman took a part.
1503 Star Chamber Proc. in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1902) 16 153 Walter Robardes tooke this Alexr apart.
1597 R. Tofte tr. L. Ariosto Two Tales ii. sig. N Yet for to know the certaintie more rife,..To the Nurse he goes, and taketh her apart.
1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times i. 11 Cleander taking Lisander apart, and discoursing to him his businesse at Court, let him presently know, that he knew nothing of theirs.
1686 tr. D. Bouhours Life St. Ignatius ii. 96 Taking him one day apart, he told him with freedom, that the Life he lead was a dishonor to the Illustrious Family of Loyola.
1717 Mem. James Duke of Hamilton 25 The King took him apart, and unravel'd to him all the Villainous Story.
1796 F. Burney Camilla III. v. iv. 53 After mildly representing the indecorum of detaining any one she was to receive by appointment, he took her apart, and putting a packet into her hand [etc.].
1836 W. Dunlap 30 Years Ago 6 His father took him apart, and bestowed on him a roll of hard dollars.
1881 H. L. Williams in Amer. Standard Dict. 469 Taking one apart.—‘I took my friend apart to converse with him.’ Say ‘I took him aside’, and avoid a ludicrous suggestion.
1900 Messenger Sacred Heart Jesus May 416/1 She was taken apart and told that her hand had been asked in marriage by the noble gentleman.
1914 Smart Set Aug. 7/2 The retired official had taken him apart to tell him that it was a pity Bismarck was not alive to deal with the Social Democrats.
2. transitive. To separate or detach (one thing) from another. Also figurative with immaterial object.
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1605 R. Mason Reasons Academie 71 This is against corrupt nature: as much as to sunder & take apart wines from water, after it is once mingled.
1838 Farmers' Reg. 1 Sept. 322/2 This being effected, I would recommend that the mould be taken apart from the wall.
1902 Proc. 24th. Ann. Conv. Minnesota Dairyman's Assoc. 149 You put the curd in the hoops [sc. circular moulds]... Then you take it apart from the hoops and put it in a tub of salty water.
1965 U.S. Patent 3,195,587 2 The filling valve..consists of several sections which can be taken apart from each other.
1999 I. Graham et al. Sci. Encycl. i. 37 Atoms in the molecules of one substance can be taken apart from each other, then reassembled to form molecules of a new, different substance.
2012 E. F. Isin Citizens without Frontiers vi. 174 For centuries..we have been living under..the nation-state. What we are experiencing now..is that the state is being taken apart from the nation.
3.
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(a) transitive. To separate into constituent parts; to dismantle, disassemble. Also figurative with immaterial object.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > separate into constituents [verb (transitive)] > take apart
to-lithec1000
unjoinc1400
joint1530
unpart1536
disjoin1579
disjoint1587
untruss?1605
untack1641
ravela1658
disartuate1660
to take apart1744
demount1756
disarticulate1808
dismount1859
disassemble1881
destructure1951
deconstruct1973
1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. vi. 195 Let a Machine, of any kind, be joined together by an ingenious Artist, and I dare say, he will be best able to take it apart again.
1774 T. Skaife Key Civil Archit. xxii. 140 In this state put in the pannels, and after smooth all off together; then take it apart, and stick the bead.
1826 N.Y. Reflector 28 Oct. 39/1 Having arrived with the engine at its place of safe keeping..to be informed that..the engine must be taken apart.
1897 G. E. Vincent Social Mind & Educ. p. viii It is..important to direct and systematize the process of analysis, i.e., to aid the pupil in taking apart the vague unity of his life experiences.
1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes 60 Let's take it apart to see how it ticks.
1969 J. A. McPherson in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 163 They took the seniority clause apart word by word, trying to figure a way to get at Doc. But they had it written airtight.
2000 P. Vincent Mountain Bike Maintenance 30/2 The advantage with a freewheel type hub is that the components can be taken apart to replace the bearings.
(b) intransitive. To be able to be dismantled or disassembled; to be designed to be taken to pieces and reassembled.
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1782 Hibernian Mag. Oct. 546/2 A curious ancient golden cross was found... It takes apart, and has a hollow recess, which was filled with earth and fibres of roots.
1862 W. De La Rue Bakerian Lect. on Total Solar Eclipse 3 A new cast-iron pedestal composed of several pieces which took apart for the convenience of carriage.
1913 Hardware Dealers' Mag. Aug. 393/1 They call it the Conqueror Automobile Spade. It takes apart by means of an adjustable thumb nut screw.
1999 Field & Stream May 50 The entire gun takes apart easily and without tools.
b. transitive. To beat or thrash severely; to subject to severe or brutal criticism; to demolish (literal and figurative).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
beswinge1568
paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
beswaddle1598
bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > severely
to be sharp upon1561
crossbite1571
scarify1582
canvass1590
maul1592
slasha1652
fib1665
to be severe on (or upon)1672
scalp1676
to pull to (or in) pieces1703
roast1710
to cut up1762
tomahawk1815
to blow sky-high1819
row1826
excoriate1833
scourge1835
target1837
slate1848
scathe1852
to take apart1880
soak1892
pan1908
burn1914
slam1916
sandbag1919
to put the blast on (someone)1929
to tear down1938
clobber1944
handbag1952
rip1961
monster1976
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly
threshc1384
to knock the socks offa1529
thump1597
thrash1609
thwacka1616
capot1649
to beat to snuff1819
to knock into a cocked hat1830
to —— (the) hell out of1833
sledgehammer1834
rout1835
whop1836
skin1838
whip-saw1842
to knock (the) spots off1850
to make mincemeat of1853
to mop (up) the floor with1875
to beat pointless1877
to lick into fits1879
to take apart1880
to knock out1883
wax1884
contund1885
to give (a person) fits1885
to wipe the floor with1887
flatten1892
to knock (someone) for six1902
slaughter1903
slather1910
to hit for six1937
hammer1948
whomp1952
bulldozer1954
zilch1957
shred1966
tank1973
slam-dunk1975
beast1977
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin
spillc950
fellOE
to cast downc1230
destroy1297
to turn up?c1335
to throw down1340
to ding downc1380
to break downa1382
subverta1382
underturn1382
to take downc1384
falla1400
to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400
voida1400
brittenc1400
to burst downc1440
to pull downc1450
pluck1481
tumble1487
wreck1510
defacea1513
confound1523
raze1523
arase1530
to beat downc1540
ruinate1548
demolish1560
plane1562
to shovel down1563
race?1567
ruin1585
rape1597
unwall1598
to bluster down16..
raise1603
level1614
debolish1615
unbuilda1616
to make smooth work of1616
slight1640
to knock down1776
squabash1822
collapse1883
to turn over1897
mash1924
rubble1945
to take apart1978
1880 Lippincott's Mag. Mar. 356/1 She (coolly)... You can take him apart and tell him so. He (vindictively). If I took him apart he'd never get put together again!
1918 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. 15 June 37/2 You-all pull that stunt just once more and I shorely romp over here and take you apart a heap!
1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air v. 94 Supposing I went round and took him apart?
1963 Listener 21 Feb. 350/3 The Labour Party's new leader was taken apart with the sort of cheerful and dedicated venom hitherto reserved for Tory Cabinet ministers.
1976 Birmingham Post 16 Dec. 12/2 League leaders Liverpool were taken apart by the speed, skill and determination of the entire Villa side.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xv. 161 The new kids were wilder and started taking everything apart.
2004 M. Crichton State of Fear 435 Standing up in Professor Whitson's con law class, his legs shaking, while old Whitson took him apart.
c. transitive. colloquial. To search (a place) thoroughly. Frequently with the implication of causing damage or disorder.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search a place or receptacle thoroughly
asearch1382
searcha1387
ransacka1400
ripea1400
upripe?a1400
riflec1400
ruffle1440
gropea1529
rig1572
rake1618
rummage1621
haul1666
fish1727
call1806
ratch1859
to turn over1859
to go through ——1861
rifle1894
rancel1899
to take apart1920
fine-tooth comb1949
1920 Rudder Nov. 16/2 Art lost his cap behind a desk in Chris. Smith's room and proceeded to take the room apart in order to find it.
1958 M. Allingham Hide my Eyes xv. 150 I am going to take this shed apart if it costs me my ticket.
1974 D. Seaman Bomb that could Lip-read xxiv. 243 There is going to be one God-awful search for the man... They will take this hamlet apart.
2001 Guardian 11 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) 5/3 A cocaine taker on a jag who's convinced that they've got another gram somewhere and takes their house apart looking for it.
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