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  1. adverb At a distance in place, position, or time: railings spaced two feet apart; born three years apart.
  2. adverb Away from another or others: grew apart over the years; decided to live apart.
  3. adverb In or into parts or pieces: split apart.
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  • The event held last night in Madrid drew huge attention from media: apart from the Spanish and Turkish public televisions, TVE and TRT, newspapers, commercial channels such as Cuatro, —  esctoday.com | news
  • That being said, however, polls have consistently shown that the Liberals - apart from the Englishspeaking enclaves in downtown Montreal - have essentially lost their historic base in Quebec, which has now become a two-way battle between the Bloc and the Tories. —  Orangeville
  • Rep. Nadler says that keeping people who love each other apart is a "wanton, gratuitous cruelty." —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
  • Ultimate Matrix Collection and what sets the Blu-ray collection of the Wachowski Brothers sci-fi saga apart is the case the discs fit in is a two-foot replica of Morpheus 'hovership, The —  Geek.com
  • A large immigration of Quakers from England a few years after the Dutch surrender added a valuable element to the population, in which the Puritans, apart from the Dutch, had predominated. —  The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
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  1. Middle English, from Old French a part : a, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + part, side (from Latin pars, part-; see part).

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  1. from Middle English apart, from Old French a part, modern F. à part =Provencal a part Spanish Portuguese aparte = Italian a parte, from Latin ad partem: ad, to, at; partem, accusative of par(t-)s, part, side. Apart is thus orig. a preposition phr. like English aside, ahead, etc., and may like these have a quasi-adjective construction. Cf. apart.
  2. from apart, adv.
  3. Early modern English a parte, Middle English in fuller form aparty, apartie; from a + part or party. Cf. apart.
 

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