Detach

Definition: Detach

Detach

Verb

1. Cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it".

2. Military use: separate (a small unit) from a larger, esp. for a special assignment; "detach a regiment".

3. Come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "detach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Detach \De*tach"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Detached; Detaching.]. (references)

Post & Telecom

Synonyms: Detach

Coherence

Verb: make loose; Adjective: loosen, slacken, relax; unglue; detach; (disjoin).

Disjunction

Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate).

Crosswords: Detach

Music

• Detach (reference)

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Figure 57. Puhler sounder, described by Christian Puhler in 1563, repeated an idea first put forth by Cardinal Nicholas Pusanus a century earlier. The principle, was to attach a float to a weight making it heavier than water. Upon striking bottom, the float would detach. Depth would be derived from round- trip travel time. It is unknown if this device was ever field tested. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Retired Master Sgt. Disk Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor, reads a memorial plaque engraved on the eternal flame in the Headquarters Pacific Air Forces "Courtyard of Heroes" 59 years after the attack. Fiske was a bugler assigned to a marine detach.

But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded

The care which he had taken to detach her from him, succeeded with her.

Health

Folklore remedies, such as the use of petroleum jelly or hot matches, do little to encourage a tick to detach from skin. In fact, they may make matters worse by irritating the tick and stimulating it to release additional saliva or regurgitate gut contents, increasing the chances of transmitting the pathogen. (references)

Expression using "detach": detach oneself. Additional references.

Albanian

dërgoj (send), shqit (disconnect, pull off, rip off, tear down, unstick), shkëput (abstract, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, distract, disunite, extract, rip off, tear, tear off, tear up, uncouple, unfix, unhook, unstrap), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), liroj (acquit, cast off, cheapen, discharge, disengage, dismiss, ease, excuse, free, free oneself, let go, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, pay, pay out, relax, release, slack, slacken, unbind, unstring, vacate), heq (take off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فك (break up, chap, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, untying, unwind), ‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏حل (acquit, become, clear up, crack, disband, disengage, disentangle, disintegrate, dismissal, dispensation, dissolve, exonerate, fix, free, hash, loose, ravel out, releasing, resolution, resolve, settle, settlement, settling, solution, solve, solvent, unbend, unclasp, uncoil, undo, undoing, unfasten, unfastening, unhook, untangle, untie, untwine, untying, unwind), ‏حرر (cast off, clear, decontrol, deliver, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, grant freedom, liberate, manumit, open, phrase, redact, redeem, release, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, subedit, unchain, uncork, unleash, unlock, unstitch), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), ‏أرسل (deliver, emit, expedite, forward, issue, route, send, send off, toss off, transmit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оттеглям (back down, countermand, haul off, pull away, retire, retract, retreat, withdraw), отвързвам се (come untied), отвързвам (loose, trip, uncouple, unfasten, untie), отделям (abstract, cull, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), изпращам със специална мисия. (various references)

Chinese 

分开 (Apart, Detaching, Disaggregate, Disconnected, Disconnecting, partition, separate, unsolder). (various references)

Czech

vyèlenit (earmark, hive off), sundat (doff, get down, reach, take down, tumble, tumble down, uncover), odvelet (detail, second), odvázat (cast off, release, untie), odpojit (cut off, disconnect, switch off, uncouple, unplug), odlepit (unstick), odepnout (disengage, unbuckle, unclasp, unpin), oddìlit (disjunct, dispart, fractionate, mark off, part, partition, scorify, segregate, separate, sequester, sever, split off). (various references)

Danish

frakobling (declutching, disconnecting, disengaging, separation, unhitching). (various references)

Dutch

ontkoppeling (declutching, decoupling, disconnecting, disengagement, disengaging, uncoupling), losgaan (frill). (various references)

Farsi 

سواکردن (Disassemble, Isolate, Separate, Sort, Unlink), جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sequester, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), اعزام کردن . (various references)

Finnish

irrottaa (disconnect, free, loosen, remove, unbind, undo, unfasten, untie). (various references)

French

détachons, détachez, détacher, détachent, découdre (deatch), déconnexion, se détacher, séparer, envoyer un détachement, affaiblir. (various references)

German

abtrennen (box off, carve out, cleave, cut off, divide, divide off, partition off, removal, remove, separate, separate off, sever, shut off, split off, to detach). (various references)

Greek 

αποσπώ (distract, elicit, extract, pull). (various references)

Hebrew 

להחליש (abate, attenuate, deaden, enervate, enfeeble, impair, slacken, weaken, wear down), לנתק (break, cut off, disconnect, disengage, divorce, isolate, sever, sunder, uncouple, uproot). (various references)

Hungarian

kiküld (delegate, to delegate, to depute, to draft, to send out), elválaszt (to detach, to divide, to sunder). (various references)

Indonesian

menyobek (tear), mencoplok (take off), memisahkan (disjoint, disrupt, dissociate). (various references)

Italian

distaccare (break off, come off, detail, leave behind, separate), sgancio (balckthorn, sloe), sciogliere (melt, release, solve, thaw). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取り外す (to detach, to dismantle, to take something away), 剥す (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥がす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 切り離す (to decapitate, to detach), 切り放す (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), 切り放つ (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), 分け離す (to detach, to separate from). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりはなす (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to decapitate, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), きりはなつ (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), わけはなす (to detach, to separate from), はがす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), とりはずす (to detach, to dismantle, to take something away). (various references)

Korean 

파견하십시요. (various references)

Manx

scarrey (veih) (alienate, come away, shut off), scarrey (alienation, break off, break up, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, parting, schism, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separating, separation, sever, severance, slough, split up, start, sunder). (various references)

Norwegian

ta av, kople fra (disconnect). (various references)

Pig Latin

etachday.(various references)

Portuguese

dissociação (dissociation), destacar (branch, contrast, cut off, draft, draught), desmontar (demount), desligar (cut out, shut off), separar (divide, isolate, separate), que separa (parting). (various references)

Romanian

dezlipi (separate, sever, unglue, unpaste, unstick), detaşa (alienate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, draft, separate, unbind, uncouple, unfasten), desprinde (break away, break off, disengage, take out), despãrţi (abstract, bar, cleave, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, partition, scatter, segregate, select, separate, sever, unyoke), separa (chop off, cleave, cut out, disconnect, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissociate, disunite, divide, isolate, partition, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sunder), branşa (set apart). (various references)

Russian 

отрядить (tell off), откомандировывать, отвязывать (disengage, uncord, unfasten), отделять;отключать (detached), отделять (segregate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

detašovati, rastaviti (disassemble, separate, set apart, sunder, take apart, unjoin), odvojiti (break off, disconnect, divide, ease off, mark out, segregate, separate, set off, sever, sort, spare, uncouple), odlepiti (be blown away, decohere, decollate, lose one's marbles, pull out, unstick). (various references)

Spanish

destacar (highlight). (various references)

Swedish

lösgöra (disengage, disentangle, extricate, set free), avskilja (segregate, sequester). (various references)

Thai

ถอดออก (shuffle out of). (various references)

Turkish

sökmek (cut loose, demount, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dismount, knock down, Ravel, ravel out, read, rip, rip off, slit, spring, take down, tear down, undo, unfix, unpick, unravel, unrig, unstitch), kopmak (blow up, break, break off, come off, fly off, part, rupture, separate, sever, snap, split, sunder, tear), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), özel görevlendirmek, çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, defrost, disengage, disentangle, figure out, loosen, puzzle out, read, reason, resolve, slack, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfix, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unriddle, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, work out), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Ukrainian

роз'єднувати (come apart, disarticulate, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin, dissociate, disunite, sejoin, sever, unyoke), розділяти (demarcate, disjoint, part, partition, set apart, sever, split up, sunder), відчіпляти, відв'язувати (loose). (various references)

abducant, abducemini, abduci, abduco, abducta, abducti, abductos, abductus, abduxerunt, abduxit, abduxitque, abiungo, decidam, decidant, decidat, decidens, decidentes, decidentia, decidet, decidi, decidissemus, decidisset, decidit, evolvo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "detach": detachabilities, detachability, detachable, detachably, detached, detachedly, detachedness, detachednesses, detacher, detachers, detaches, detaching, detachment, detachments. (additional references)

Words containing "detach": nondetachable, semidetached. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Detach" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daraich, Datcha, debac, Debach, decath, Demachy, detack, detact, detatch, detek, detice, dettach, detuch, dierach, digtech, Doetsch, Dontcha, dtac, Dunach, duotac, Duthac, eatcha, Getech, medtech, Meshach, Mextech. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ached, acted, cadet, cheat, death, hated, tache, teach, theca.

-2 letters: aced, ache, cade, cate, chad, chat, dace, date, each, eath, etch, hade, haed, haet, hate, head, heat, tace, tach, thae.

-3 letters: ace, act, ate, cad, cat, dah, eat, edh, eta, eth, had, hae, hat, het, tad, tae, tea, ted, the.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ah.

+1 letter: batched, cathead, cathode, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, hatched, latched, matched, patched, scathed, thacked, watched, yachted.

+2 letters: attached, cacheted, catheads, cathedra, cathodes, chaunted, chelated, chordate, deathcup, despatch, detached, detacher, detaches, sacheted, snatched, stanched, starched, thatched, thwacked, tracheid, trachled, wauchted.

+3 letters: cadetship, cathected, cathedrae, cathedral, cathedras, chapleted, chaptered, charioted, chartered, chastened, chastised, chattered, chordates, claughted, cohabited, cohobated, deathcups, decathlon, detachers, detaching, diathetic, enchanted, escheated, hatcheled, headcount, headstock, mustached, octahedra, ratcheted, recharted, rematched, repatched, scratched, staunched, stomached, thickhead, tracheids, trauchled, uncharted, unhatched, unlatched, unmatched, unscathed.