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Dispart vs Shatter - What's the difference?

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Dispart is a related term of shatter.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between dispart and shatter

is that dispart is (obsolete) to divide, divide up, distribute while shatter is (obsolete) to scatter about.

In lang=en terms the difference between dispart and shatter

is that dispart is to make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim while shatter is to dispirit or emotionally defeat.

As verbs the difference between dispart and shatter

is that dispart is to part, separate or dispart can be to furnish with a dispart sight while shatter is to violently break something into pieces.

As nouns the difference between dispart and shatter

is that dispart is the difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance while shatter is (archaic) a fragment of anything shattered.

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.

    shatter

    English

    (wikipedia shatter)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to violently break something into pieces.
    • The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
    a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
    The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.
  • to destroy or disable something.
  • to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
  • to dispirit or emotionally defeat
    • to be shattered''' in intellect; to have '''shattered''' hopes, or a '''shattered constitution
  • * 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
    • Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
  • * 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News , Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
    • A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
  • * 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
    • The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
  • * Norris
    • a man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humour
  • (obsolete) To scatter about.
  • * Milton
    • Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
    • to break a glass into shatters
    (Jonathan Swift)

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    * * English ergative verbs