Partition vs Disunite - What's the difference?
partition | disunite |
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
* Shakespeare
A part of something that has been divided.
The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
A vertical structure that divides a room.
That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
* Dryden
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
* Milton
(legal) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
(computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
(databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
(set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
(music) A musical score.
To divide something into parts, sections or shares
To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
* 1516 , , Utopia , "Of Their Military Discipline":
* 1863 , , Hard Cash , ch. 44:
To separate, sever, or split.
* 1899 , , Jennie Baxter, Journalist , ch. 16:
To disintegrate; to come apart.
* 1843 , , A Blot In The 'Scutcheon , Act I:
Disunite is a synonym of partition.
As verbs the difference between partition and disunite
is that partition is to divide something into parts, sections or shares while disunite is to cause disagreement or alienation among or within.As a noun partition
is an action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.partition
English
(wikipedia partition)Noun
(en noun)- And good from bad find no partition .
- ''Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs
- a brick partition'''; lath and plaster '''partitions
- No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
- Lodged in a small partition .
Usage notes
* (set theory) The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.Synonyms
* dismembermentDerived terms
* equipartitionVerb
(en verb) (transitive)Synonyms
* dismemberDerived terms
* partitioner * partitionistdisunite
English
Verb
- If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.
- Secrets disunite a family.
- I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
- You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
- Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
- A converse ne'er to disunite again.