Dissever vs Disconnect - What's the difference?
dissever | disconnect | Related terms |
To separate; to split apart.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
To divide into separate parts.
A break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process; disconnection.
A switch used to isolate a portion of an electrical circuit.
A lack of connection or accord; a mismatch.
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
(Scientology) The deliberate severing of ties with family, friends, etc. considered antagonistic towards Scientology.
To sever or interrupt a connection.
Of a person, to become detached or withdrawn.
To remove the connection between an appliance and an electrical power source.
Dissever is a related term of disconnect.
As verbs the difference between dissever and disconnect
is that dissever is to separate; to split apart while disconnect is to sever or interrupt a connection.As a noun disconnect is
a break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process; disconnection.dissever
English
Verb
(en verb)- The storm so dissevered the company that most of them never met again.
- Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.
- If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
Anagrams
*disconnect
English
Noun
(en noun)- There's a disconnect between what they think is happening and what is really going on.
- Some of the disconnect between the economy’s problems and the solutions offered by Washington stem from the nature of the current political debate.
