disjoin

verb
/dɪsˈdʒɔɪn/UK

Etymology

From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre, from Latin disiungere (“to separate”), from dis-, di- (“apart”) + iungere (“to join”). Equivalent to dis- + join.

  1. derived from disiungere
  2. derived from desjoindre
  3. inherited from disjoynen

Definitions

  1. To separate

    To separate; to disunite.

    • That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins.
    • Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
    • Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.
  2. To become separated.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disjoin. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disjoin. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at disjoin

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA