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Dispart vs Rend - What's the difference?

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Dispart is a related term of rend.


In lang=en terms the difference between dispart and rend

is that dispart is to make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim while rend is to be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

As verbs the difference between dispart and rend

is that dispart is to part, separate or dispart can be to furnish with a dispart sight while rend is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst.

As a noun dispart

is the difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

dispart

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dispartire and its source, (etyl) dispartire.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To part, separate.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
  • *:that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod [...].
  • * Emerson
    • The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted .
  • (obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place [...].

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
  • * Eng. Cyc.
    • On account of the dispart , the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis.
  • A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a dispart sight.
  • To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
  • * Lucar
    • Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.

    rend

    English

    Verb

  • To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
    • Powder rends a rock in blasting.
    Lightning rends an oak.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
    • We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
  • To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
  • To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
    • Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
    Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.

    Anagrams

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