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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cutting off and disconnecting
amputate
amputation
amputee
Brexit
castration
chop
chop something off
crop
cut back
disconnection
dismember
dismemberment
dissection
dock
Grexit
nonconnection
post-amputation
saw something off
sever
unharness

disconnect | American Dictionary

disconnect
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdɪs·kəˈnekt/
to break a connection that carries a substance or electricity, or to break such a connection used by someone or something:
He disconnected a gas line.
Carefully tip the grill on its back and disconnect the burner from the gas valves.
Our phone was disconnected (= turned off by the telephone company).
If you are disconnected while speaking on the telephone, the telephone connection is suddenly stopped and you can no longer continue your conversation.
disconnect
noun[ C ]
 infmlus/ˌdɪs·kəˈnekt/
a lack of connection; a failure of two things to relate:
There’s a disconnect between the public and the media.

disconnect | Business English

disconnect
verb
uk /ˌdɪskəˈnekt/us
[ T ]
to stop a machine or piece of equipment being connected to a supply of electricity, gas, water, etc.:
The electricity board threatened to disconnect the supply.
disconnect sth from sthAlways disconnect the computer from the mains before you remove the lid.
[ I or T ] IT, INTERNET
to stop being connected to the internet:
be/get disconnectedOur broadband keeps getting disconnected.
If the signal is still weak, try disconnecting from your current network and using a different wireless connection.
[ T ] COMMUNICATIONS
if you are disconnected while talking on the phone, your phone service stops working and interrupts your conversation:
If we get disconnected, I'll call you right back.
disconnect
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌdɪskəˈnekt/us
a situation in which two or more things are not connected in the way that they should be:
a disconnect between sth and sthThe study found a disconnect between the state's social program and some people who need government assistance.

Examples of disconnect

disconnect
Homelessness means being disconnected from the social support systems that provide help in times of crisis.
Moreover, we use the properties of bias functions: injectivity and disconnected images.
Modern music needn't be disconnected to very simple and natural elements that can bring people to feel something and to get excited.
His later work is artistically disconnected in terms of both internal and external landscapes.
Today applause comes back at us roaring in all its mythic force, yet disconnected from anything whole.
Under the present theory, modifiers are in no sense marginal to, disconnected from, or ' late ' additions to the ' main ' computation.
Furthermore, b1 must connect 2 of the n mutually non-adjacent vertices, or else by the same reasoning filt would be disconnected.
Rules 29 and 52 insert upper front bumpers; the former has a connected horizontal line, and the latter has a disconnected horizontal line.
The arbitrary state and the society were completely disconnected and antithetical to each other.
Abolition of spindle oscillations in thalamic neurons disconnected from nucleus reticularis thalami.
All messages for the communication server on the laptop will then be automatically re-routed to the proxy server when the laptop is disconnected.
The net is disconnected from its normal inputs and outputs, and random input is given to it.
The pitchfork bifurcation in the symmetric problem is thereby disconnected.
The informants stressed, moreover, that these occurrences were no incidents, sporadic cases totally disconnected from plantation life.
Neither does it imply that the domestic and imperial sides of tariff reform were disconnected.
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