DISCONNECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disconnect mean? 

• DISCONNECT (noun)
  The noun DISCONNECT has 1 sense:

1. an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

  Familiarity information: DISCONNECT used as a noun is very rare.

• DISCONNECT (verb)
  The verb DISCONNECT has 2 senses:

1. pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable

2. make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

  Familiarity information: DISCONNECT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCONNECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

disconnect; disconnection; gulf

Context example:

there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy

Hypernyms ("disconnect" is a kind of...):

disparity (inequality or difference in some respect)

• DISCONNECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disconnect    ... he / she / it disconnects   
Past simple: disconnected   
Past participle: disconnected   
-ing form: disconnecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

disconnect; unplug

Context example:

unplug the hair dryer after using it

Hypernyms (to "disconnect" is one way to...):

undo (cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "disconnect" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disconnect"):

decouple; uncouple (disconnect or separate)

detach (cause to become detached or separated; take off)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Antonym:

connect (connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces)

Derivation:

disconnection (the act of breaking a connection)

 Context examples 

At last the lecture came to an end—I am inclined to think that it was a premature one, as the peroration was hurried and disconnected.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may prove to be little relation between the different incidents of which I speak.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The situation when there is a disconnected event or divergent incident.

(Discordant, NCI Thesaurus)

For a long time, South America — after its disconnect from Antarctica — has been thought of as an island continent.

(First-ever fossil monkey found in North America, NSF)

Everything which had been disconnected before began at once to assume its true place, and I had a shadowy presentiment of the whole sequence of events.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His changes of mood did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with their alternation; the ebb and flow depended on causes quite disconnected with me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

European guidelines on cardiovascular prevention state that people who are isolated or disconnected from others are at increased risk of developing and dying prematurely from coronary artery disease.

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Issue associated with the linking of device and/or device components whereby termination of the transfer of liquid, gas, electricity, or information cannot be accomplished, or linking components do not come apart, or disconnect, when expected.

(Failure to Disconnect Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

But there was the reference to David, and there was the known affection of the Colonel for his wife, to weigh against it, to say nothing of the tragic intrusion of this other man, which might, of course, be entirely disconnected with what had gone before.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: to-morrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without softening one defect; omit no harsh line, smooth away no displeasing irregularity; write under it, 'Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)