Disjoint vs Disengage - What's the difference?
disjoint | disengage |
not smooth or continuous; disjointed
(set theory) (not used in the comparative or superlative ) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
To render ; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
* Prior
* Longfellow
To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
To fall into pieces.
(ambitransitive) To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5
, Disengaging myself then from his embrace, I made him sensible of the reasons there were for his present leaving me; on which, though reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himself, between whiles, with kisses, touches and embraces I could not refuse myself to. }}
* 1982 , Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything
As verbs the difference between disjoint and disengage
is that disjoint is to render ; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection while disengage is (ambitransitive) to release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.As an adjective disjoint
is not smooth or continuous; disjointed.As a noun disengage is
(fencing) a circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry.disjoint
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* non-disjoint * overlappingVerb
(en verb)- to disjoint''' limbs; to '''disjoint''' bones; to '''disjoint poultry by carving
- Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, / But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?
- Some half-ruined wall / Disjointed and about to fall.
- a disjointed speech
- (Shakespeare)
See also
* disjoin ----disengage
English
Verb
(disengag)- Ford still had his hand stuck out. Arthur looked at it with incomprehension.
"Shake," prompted Ford.
Arthur did, nervously at first, as if it might turn out to be a fish. Then he grasped it vigorously with both hands in an overwhelming flood of relief. He shook it and shook it.
After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage .