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Take Apart

Definitions: Take Apart

Take Apart

Verb

1. Take apart into its constituent pieces.

2. Divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up".

3. Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound".

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

Synonyms: Take Apart

Synonyms: analyse (v), analyze (v), break apart (v), break down (v), break up (v), disassemble (v), dismantle (v), dismember (v), dissect (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: assemble (v), synthesize (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Take Apart

English words defined with "take apart": break apart, break updisassemble, dismantle, disunite, dividepartseparateUnframe, Unsew. (references)
Specialty definitions using "take apart": Petersen grab. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Take Apart

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Take Apart

Language Translations for "take apart"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, touch, turn sour), çmontohem. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فكك (break up, disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, dissociate, disunite, take to pieces, tear down), ‏فك (break up, chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, unfix, untangle, untie, untying, unwind), ‏هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, tear, tear down, total), ‏حلل (analyse, analyze, anatomize, construe, dissect, resolve, take to pieces, test). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozebrat (analyse, dismantle, dismember, overhaul, pick, pick to pieces, strip, take to pieces). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uiteennemen, uit elkaar nemen, demonteren (demount, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malmunti. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

purkaa (demolish, discharge, dismantle, pull down, take out, take to pieces, unbox, undo, unload, unpack, unpick), ottaa hajalle (take to pieces). (various references)

   

French

  

mettre en morceaux (take to pieces), désassembler, démonter (take down, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device), démolir (take down), critiquer. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

demontearje. (various references)

   

German

  

auseinandernehmen (disassembly, dismantle, pull apart, strip down, tear apart). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πάω κατά μέροσ, διαλύω (dilute, disassemble, disband, dismount, dissipate, dissolve, liquidate, macerate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לפרק ל'ורמים (factor, factorize, resolve, solve), לפרק (break, crack, decompose, disassemble, dismantle, take down, take to pieces). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szétszed (disassemble, dismantle, to cut up, to disassemble, to dislocate, to dismantle, to knock down, to strip), ha nem számítjuk, darabokra szed (take to pieces, to pick to pieces, to take to pieces). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

membongkari, bongkar. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

desarmá, demontá. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aketay apartay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

desmontar (alight, demount, detach, disarticulate, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, to dismount, to remove a volume from a tape unit or a direct-access device, unhang, unhorse, unload, unship), desmantelar (demolish, dismantle, pull down, tear down). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

bucãţi (asunder, disjoint, divide, Flinders, in pieces, take to pieces, undo). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разбирать на части (take to pieces), разбирать (analyse, analyze, construe, decipher, demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, make out, take to pieces, undo, unmake). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

rastaviti (detach, disassemble, separate, set apart, sunder, unjoin), rasklopiti (disassemble, dismantle, strip, take down, ungear), prebiti na mrtvo ime, napasti (attack, attempt, go for, invade, jump, lace, offend, savage, tilt). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

demontar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ta isär (demount, disassemble, dismantle), skälla ut (abuse, berate, call down, call names, dress down, dust down, insult, lambaste, lash out against, offend, rate, scold, slang), kritisera (animadvert upon, batter, castigate, censure, comment, criticize, critisize, denounce, fault, knock, lash, review), göra ner (crucify, do down, pull, rubbish, slam, slate, tear to pieces, whip). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

koparmak (break, break off, cozen, cut off, deflorate, deflower, dissever, extort, pick, pick off, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, 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, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

sцkmek (plow, rip out a seam), aralamak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розбирати на частини. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Take Apart

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-k-p-r-t-t"

-2 letters: partake.

-3 letters: karate, patter, tapeta.

-4 letters: apart, apeak, apter, attar, karat, parae, parka, pater, peart, prate, reata, taker, taper, tatar, tater, tetra, trapt, treat.

-5 letters: aper, arak, area, atap, kapa, kart, kata, kept, para, pare, park, part, pate, peak, pear, peat, perk, pert, prat, rake, rape, rapt, rate, reap, taka, take, tapa, tape, tare, tarp, tart, tate, teak, tear, teat, tepa, trap, trek, tret.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Take Apart


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 6B 65      41 70 61 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110000 01100001 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#112 &#97 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006B 0065      0041 0070 0061 0072 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5467777123582678486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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