Word Meanings - DISSECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism;
Additional info about word: DISSECT
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely. This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample. Atterbury.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSECT)
- Divide
- Separate
- dissect
- bisect
- portio
- part
- divorce
- segregate
- sever
- sunder
- deal out
- disunite
- keep apart
- part among
- allot
- distribute
- multiply
Related words: (words related to DISSECT)
- DIVORCEABLE
Capable of being divorced. - DIVIDER
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. - ALLOTTABLE
Capable of being allotted. - DIVIDEND
A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated - DISSECT
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; - ALLOTRIOPHAGY
A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food. - SUNDER
A separation into parts; a division or severance. In sunder, into parts. "He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder." Ps. xlvi. 9. - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - APARTMENT HOUSE
A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house. - APARTNESS
The quality of standing apart. - BISECTION
Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts. - ALLOT
Etym: 1. To distribute by lot. 2. To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man - DIVORCEMENT
Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris. - ALLOTTERY
Allotment. Shak. - DIVIDEDLY
Separately; in a divided manner. - BISECTRIX
The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal. - ALLOTHEISM
The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor. - BISECT
To divide into two equal parts. (more info) Etym: 1. To cut or divide into two parts. - SEVERAL
1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor - SEGREGATE
Separated from others of the same kind. (more info) 1. Separate; select. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - PERSEVERANCE
Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info) - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - DISSEVER
To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info) - PERSEVER
To persevere. - BALLOTER
One who votes by ballot. - ASSEVERATORY
Asseverative. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - CALOTTE; CALLOT
A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to