1400-1500Latindisparatus, past participle of disparare ‘to separate’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Many disparate forms of information can be linked together in the database.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Farideh Cadot offers us the penetrating lyrical vision of the late Daniel Tremblay, who worked with a range of disparate materials.
Furthermore, the differences become even more disparate as the complexity of the vocabulary and sentences increase.
In the down-sizing 1990s, this essentially means providing the glue that will make disparate mainframe, client-server and network systems co-function.
Others may follow, especially those with disparate businesses and a lagging stock price that management is under pressure to raise.
Such disparate allegiances are more likely to agree on what they oppose than in what they support.
The disparate movements of protest were for a moment united in massive resistance.
The Orphic materials were also concerned to give a reason for which these two disparate features of human beings were combined.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►group
· Compacts establish a positive mechanism for communication between disparate groups.· She helped coordinate the Harmony Alliance, which works at bringing disparate groups together.· His immediate priority, though, was to weld a disparate group of men into a cohesive fighting force.· They were otherwise a very disparate group of seven.· Why should it attack these disparate groups?
consisting of things or people that are very different and not related to each other: a meeting covering many disparate subjects the difficulties of dealing with disparate groups of people