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Dispart vs Tear - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between dispart and tear

is that dispart is to make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim while tear is to make (an opening) with force or energy.

As verbs the difference between dispart and tear

is that dispart is to part, separate while tear is to rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.

As nouns the difference between dispart and tear

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 tear is a hole or break caused by tearing.

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.

    tear

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
  • To injure as if by pulling apart.
  • To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
  • To make (an opening) with force or energy.
  • To remove by tearing.
  • To demolish
  • To become torn, especially accidentally.
  • To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
  • To smash or enter something with great force.
    • Synonyms
    * (break) rend, rip * (remove by tearing) rip out, tear off, tear out
    Related terms
    * tearaway * tear apart * tear down * tear into * tear up * that's torn it * wear and tear * retear

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hole or break caused by tearing.
    • A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
    Derived terms
    * wear and tear

    Derived terms

    * tearsheet

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia tear) (en noun)
  • A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  • * Dryden
    • Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears .
  • That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • * Milton
    • some melodious tear
    Derived terms
    {{der3 , crocodile tears , shed a tear , teardrop , tear duct , tearful , tear up , teary , two tears in a bucket }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce tears.
    • Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.

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