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/dɪskənˈɛkt/ Listen

Disconnect

verb

(past & past part. disconnected; pres. part. disconnecting)

Pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable. Synonym: unplug.

Make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten.

noun

An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding). Synonyms: disconnection, gulf. "There is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"

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"Disconnect" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost impossible to say. The Government will be anxious to treat, and probably it will put forward feelers to-morrow to see how far it may dare go. Some of its members already are endeavouring to disconnect themselves from a capitulation, and, if it does take place, will assert that they were opposed to it. Thus, M. Jules Favre, in a long address to the mayors of the banlieus yesterday, goes through the old arguments to prove that France ...

— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere

... chain is in motion. When connecting the power cable to the electric wires, they shall make the negative or grounded connections before connecting to the positive, and when disconnecting the power cable, shall disconnect from the positive line before disconnecting the negative or grounded. When positive feed wires extend into rooms, they shall connect such wires to the positive wire on the entry before connecting the power cable, and as soon as the power cable is disconnected ...

— Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921 • Anonymous

... colonel said behind this apparent disorder a most careful and particular orderliness was hidden away. Given an hour's notice, these busy men who wore those steel vises clamped upon their ears could disconnect the lines, pull down and reel in the wires, pack the batteries and the exchanges, and have the entire outfit loaded upon automobiles for speedy transmission elsewhere. Having seen what I had seen of the ...

— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb

... and many other names, which had such a classic familiarity for my ear six months ago,—these men of traffic, who seemed to occupy so important a position in the world,—how little time has it required to disconnect me from them all, not merely in act, but recollection! It is with an effort that I recall the figures and appellations of these few. Soon, likewise, my old native town will loom upon me through the haze of memory, a mist brooding ...

— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... vague with respect to the ordinary processes of our daily lives. I have not the remotest idea of how to make a cup of coffee or disconnect the gas or water mains in my own house. If my sliding door sticks I send for the carpenter, and if water trickles in the tank I telephone for the plumber. I am a helpless infant in the stable and my motor is the creation of a Frankenstein that has me at its mercy. My wife may recall ...

— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train

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