Part 3019

<hw>De`syn*on`y*mi*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of desynonymizing.</def>

<h1>Desynonymize</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De`syn*on"y*mize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.</def>

<i>Coleridge. Trench.</i>

<h1>Detach</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*tach"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Detached</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Detaching</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82tacher</ets> (cf. It. <ets>distaccare</ets>, <ets>staccare</ets>); pref. <ets>d\'82</ets> (L. <ets>dis</ets>) + the root found also in E. <ets>attach</ets>. See <er>Attach</er>, and cf. <er>Staccato</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of <i>attach</i>; <as>as, to <ex>detach</ex> the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to <ex>detach</ex> a man from a leader or from a party.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; <as>as, to <ex>detach</ex> a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- To separate; disunite; disengage; sever; disjoin; withdraw;; draw off. See <er>Detail</er>.</syn>

<h1>Detach</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*tach"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.</def>

<blockquote>[A vapor] <b>detaching</b>, fold by fold, From those still heights. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Detachable</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*tach"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That can be detached.</def>

<h1>Detached</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*tached"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; <as>as, <ex>detached</ex> parcels</as>.</def> "Extensive and <i>detached</i> empire."

<i>Burke.</i>

<cs><col>Detached escapement</col>. <cd>See <er>Escapement</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Detachment</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De*tach"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82tachement</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.</def>

<blockquote>Troops . . . widely scattered in little <b>detachments</b>. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.</def>

<blockquote>A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the <b>detachment</b> of a saint. <i>J. H. Newman.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Detail</h1> <Xpage=400>

<hw>De"tail</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82tail</ets>, fr. <ets>d\'82tailler</ets> to cut in pieces, tell in detail; pref. <ets>d\'82-</ets> (L. <ets>de</ets> or <ets>dis-</ets>) + <ets>tailler</ets> to cut. See <er>Tailor</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; <as>as, the <ex>details</ex> of a scheme or transaction</as>.</def>