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单词 unconnected
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Definition of unconnected in English:

unconnected

adjectiveʌnkəˈnɛktɪdˌənkəˈnɛktəd
  • 1Not joined together or to something else.

    the earth wire was left unconnected
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's essentially a minibus with wings, stopping at every tiny town, because Nunavik is like a dot-to-dot nobody's bothered to join up, a region of 15 villages unconnected by road or rail.
    • Individual paper proposals unconnected with existing seminars may also be sent to the Program Committee.
    • We need an immediate ban on the creation of new virtual animals, cute or otherwise, and existing ones will have to either be quarantined on an unconnected server or burnt in a big insanitary heap of pixels.
    • Maxwell Brown had endured 20 operations after being born with his stomach unconnected to his throat, and his father's T-shirt was intended as a tribute during Essandoh's goal celebrations.
    • Many of the Northwest Islands are joined together by tunnels carved through the solid rock of the seabed, the still unconnected islands are accessed by car ferries.
    • There were two initially unconnected parts which in the ultimate process of assembly came together in the appropriate way, but to get them there, you had to hold one part with one hand, and one part with the other.
    • Common partners can serve as referral agents and relay expectations and responsibilities as part of the process of bringing together two hitherto unconnected firms.
    • Communications-wise, these locations were unconnected islands.
    • As well, when parks are unconnected islands, species are unable to move when environmental changes occur, something that could be especially problematic with global climate change.
    Synonyms
    detached, disconnected, unjoined, separate, loose
    dangling, hanging, trailing
  • 2Not associated or linked in a sequence.

    two unconnected events
    the question was unconnected to anything they had been discussing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We make a point of showing ways in which seemingly unconnected resources link together to form a toolkit for changing the world.
    • What is recent, however, is the advent of software that brings unconnected people together using the Internet.
    • One theory is the sheep might have eaten at thorny hedges or developed a condition called Orf, an unconnected virus that causes blistering similar to that seen in foot and mouth cases.
    • In an unconnected incident, police in Doncaster are hunting masked men wielding a sledgehammer who terrified staff and customers at Hatfield Post Office before escaping with cash.
    • He told Scotland on Sunday: ‘The two things are completely unconnected.’
    • In many cases, desirable features of the universe would not have come about, unless seemingly unconnected states of affairs had come together in the right sort of way.
    • But perhaps the best refutation of the idea that philosophy and morality are unconnected came, as we might have expected, from Samuel Johnson.
    • Subfields of psychology can be arguably characterized as islands of unconnected knowledge.
    • Two separate men have been charged with the unconnected offences and are going through the courts.
    • This body also established state scientific research, bringing together hitherto unconnected projects and scientists and enhancing the possibility of successful outcomes.
    • Community organizing is getting a group of unconnected people who are doing many unconnected things to start working together for some common purpose.
    • It's the standard operating put-down with which irate mothers pack off malingering boys - who cite unconnected causes while feigning outlandish illnesses - to school.
    • Millenarian movements require a charismatic leader to bind together disparate, unconnected people, and, by convincing them of the imminence of the Apocalypse, turn them into a revolutionary force.
    • There is no plot, only a succession of unconnected scenes taped together.
    • Four unconnected works go together well on this one CD.
    • Is it possible that Raines just can't see reliable sources for such tales, corroborated by other, unconnected reliable sources?
    • The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
    • But he sounds rushed, and the hand gestures seem unconnected.
    • Partly due to its descriptiveness, to its piecing together of unconnected pictorial threads, the poetry becomes suspended outside time.
    • There is an apparent dissonance or disjunction in her work, but this comes from a novel meshing of seemingly discontinuous or unconnected themes and problems.
    Synonyms
    unrelated, unassociated, dissociated, separate, independent, distinct, different, disparate, individual, detached, discrete
    disjointed, incoherent, disconnected, rambling, wandering, diffuse, ununified, disorderly, disordered, haphazard, disorganized, garbled, mixed up, muddled, jumbled, scrambled, meaningless, uncoordinated, aimless

Derivatives

  • unconnectedly

  • adverbˌʌnkəˈnɛktɪdliˌənkəˈnɛktədli
    • I, on the other hand, do well in IQ tests, and, unconnectedly, believe this to be a meaningful predictor of intelligence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They have been, not so unconnectedly, behaving this way for years.
      • I am always surprised how bare our house looks when the Christmas decorations come down; and this unconnectedly coincides with the fall in demand for fatstock, triggered by post-festive realism that we are short of money.
      • The implications of the ‘court composer’ title capture something of the sense of Britten's power as well as, not unconnectedly, the sense of resentment that this in turn fostered.
  • unconnectedness

  • noun
    • This ‘unconnectedness’ that is constantly referred to is paradoxically a state which is desired and not attained: ‘to want to be unconnected.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Community is celebrated, especially by urban community leaders and activists,’ Patterson writes, but ‘the truth is that Afro-Americans lead the nation in their unconnectedness to community support groups.’
      • The control frame on a rigid wing is just unconnected from the glider and you feel that unconnectedness (well, I do).
      • Who can help me escape from a world of unconnectedness - if only for a little while?

Rhymes

aspected, disaffected, disconnected, invected, unaffected, uncollected, uncorrected, undetected, undirected, unelected, unexpected, uninflected, unprotected, unselected, unsuspected
 
 

Definition of unconnected in US English:

unconnected

adjectiveˌənkəˈnektədˌənkəˈnɛktəd
  • 1Not joined together or to something else.

    the ground wire was left unconnected
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As well, when parks are unconnected islands, species are unable to move when environmental changes occur, something that could be especially problematic with global climate change.
    • There were two initially unconnected parts which in the ultimate process of assembly came together in the appropriate way, but to get them there, you had to hold one part with one hand, and one part with the other.
    • It's essentially a minibus with wings, stopping at every tiny town, because Nunavik is like a dot-to-dot nobody's bothered to join up, a region of 15 villages unconnected by road or rail.
    • Common partners can serve as referral agents and relay expectations and responsibilities as part of the process of bringing together two hitherto unconnected firms.
    • Individual paper proposals unconnected with existing seminars may also be sent to the Program Committee.
    • Maxwell Brown had endured 20 operations after being born with his stomach unconnected to his throat, and his father's T-shirt was intended as a tribute during Essandoh's goal celebrations.
    • Many of the Northwest Islands are joined together by tunnels carved through the solid rock of the seabed, the still unconnected islands are accessed by car ferries.
    • Communications-wise, these locations were unconnected islands.
    • We need an immediate ban on the creation of new virtual animals, cute or otherwise, and existing ones will have to either be quarantined on an unconnected server or burnt in a big insanitary heap of pixels.
    Synonyms
    detached, disconnected, unjoined, separate, loose
    1. 1.1 Not associated or linked in a sequence.
      two unconnected events
      the question was unconnected to anything they had been discussing
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In an unconnected incident, police in Doncaster are hunting masked men wielding a sledgehammer who terrified staff and customers at Hatfield Post Office before escaping with cash.
      • Partly due to its descriptiveness, to its piecing together of unconnected pictorial threads, the poetry becomes suspended outside time.
      • There is no plot, only a succession of unconnected scenes taped together.
      • The film begins by offering discontinuous glimpses of three unconnected characters, then flashes a preview of the climactic moment, when all three somehow come together in a bloody motel room.
      • But perhaps the best refutation of the idea that philosophy and morality are unconnected came, as we might have expected, from Samuel Johnson.
      • Subfields of psychology can be arguably characterized as islands of unconnected knowledge.
      • What is recent, however, is the advent of software that brings unconnected people together using the Internet.
      • In many cases, desirable features of the universe would not have come about, unless seemingly unconnected states of affairs had come together in the right sort of way.
      • There is an apparent dissonance or disjunction in her work, but this comes from a novel meshing of seemingly discontinuous or unconnected themes and problems.
      • We make a point of showing ways in which seemingly unconnected resources link together to form a toolkit for changing the world.
      • Community organizing is getting a group of unconnected people who are doing many unconnected things to start working together for some common purpose.
      • But he sounds rushed, and the hand gestures seem unconnected.
      • One theory is the sheep might have eaten at thorny hedges or developed a condition called Orf, an unconnected virus that causes blistering similar to that seen in foot and mouth cases.
      • This body also established state scientific research, bringing together hitherto unconnected projects and scientists and enhancing the possibility of successful outcomes.
      • Two separate men have been charged with the unconnected offences and are going through the courts.
      • It's the standard operating put-down with which irate mothers pack off malingering boys - who cite unconnected causes while feigning outlandish illnesses - to school.
      • Is it possible that Raines just can't see reliable sources for such tales, corroborated by other, unconnected reliable sources?
      • Millenarian movements require a charismatic leader to bind together disparate, unconnected people, and, by convincing them of the imminence of the Apocalypse, turn them into a revolutionary force.
      • He told Scotland on Sunday: ‘The two things are completely unconnected.’
      • Four unconnected works go together well on this one CD.
      Synonyms
      unrelated, unassociated, dissociated, separate, independent, distinct, different, disparate, individual, detached, discrete
      disjointed, incoherent, disconnected, rambling, wandering, diffuse, ununified, disorderly, disordered, haphazard, disorganized, garbled, mixed up, muddled, jumbled, scrambled, meaningless, uncoordinated, aimless
 
 
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