apartとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).

副詞

apart (comparative more apart or further apart or farther apart, superlative most apart or furthest apart or farthest apart)

1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
   • 2015, Johnny Rogan, Ray Davies: A Complicated Life:

     We had a large bus and I had two of them at the front and two at the back, and I had to sit in the middle and keep them apart.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     Others apart sat on a hill retired.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 4:3:

     But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.

2. Separately, exclusively, not together.

   Synonyms: independently, separately; see also Thesaurus:individually

   Consider the two propositions apart.

3. In or into two or more parts.

   Synonyms: asunder, in twain; see also Thesaurus:asunder

   We took the computer apart and put it back together.

   • 1980, Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”:

     Love, love will tear us apart, again.

4. To the side; aside.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, James 1:21:

     Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

   • 1827, John Keble, “The Snow-Drop”, in The Christian Year:

     Let Pleasure go, put Care apart.

後置詞

apart

1. Excluded from consideration.

   Synonym: aside

   Joking apart, what do you think?

反意語

• together

派生語

形容詞

apart (not comparable)

1. (after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct.

   in a class apart

2. Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.
3. Separate, on the side.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 172:

     The young lover was in waiting, to hand them out of the large substantial carriage, and the first quiet moment that he could find for an apart whisper, said, "What can be the reason that your mother has never taken the slightest notice of my letter?"

語源 2

名詞

apart

1. Misspelling of a part.
   • 2016, Jasmine Railey, Carter and Ayanna 2: A Hood Love‎ (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 231:

     I killed a man. This was never apart of the plan, Tracy was supposed to do all of the dirty work.

参照

“apart”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

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