Apart

Definition

apart /ǝ'pɑ:t/ adv part ၁။ (တစ္ခုႏွင့္တစ္ခု) ကြာလွမ္းလ်က္၊ ျခား လ်က္၊ ေဝးကြာလ်က္။ The two houses stood 500 metres apart. ❍ Her eyes are quite wide/far apart. ❍ Their birthdays are only three days apart. ❍ ( fig ) The two sides in the negotiation are still a long way apart (ie are far from reaching an agreement). ၂။ တသီးတသန္႔။ သီးျခား။ She keeps herself apart from (ie does not mix with) other people. ❍ His tomb stands remote and apart. ❍ His use of language puts/sets him apart from (ie makes him better than) other modern writers. ၃။ တျခားစီ။ She and her husband are living apart. ❍ It's often best to keep friendship and business strictly apart. ❍ Over the years, Rosie and I had drifted apart. ❍ I can't tell the twins apart (ie recognize the difference between them). ၄။ တစ္ပိုင္းတစ္စစီ။ I'm sorry, the cup just came/fell apart in my hands. ❍ The bomb ripped the plane apart. ❍ He enjoys taking old cars apart. ၅။ ကလြဲလို႔။ မွအပ။ အသာထား။ These considerations apart, the plan seems likely to succeed. ❍ Edwards apart, there were no suitable candidates. ❍ Joking apart, what did you really think of the show? ❏ apart from (also esp US aside from ) prep ၁။ ကလြဲလို႔။ Apart from being a bit overweight he's quite healthy. ၂။ အျပင္။ Who else was there apart from your parents? ❍ Apart from going to Italy and Spain, he will also visit Britain.

Examples

1. Stand with your feet apart.
2. Their two farms are about a mile apart.
3. Plant the seeds 25 cm apart.
4. The man was alone
5. sitting apart
6. watching people come and go.
7. [apart from] : I saw Theresa at the graveside
8. standing apart from the rest of the family.
9. The two brothers were born six years apart.
10. Two surveys carried out 30 years apart show little change in attitudes to childcare.
11. [tear/rip/pull something apart] : The explosion tore the plane apart.
12. [take something apart] : If the problem is in the printer
13. we’ll have to take the whole thing apart.
14. [fall/come apart] : The book came apart in my hands.
15. Bribery apart
16. there is almost no method of persuasion that is not allowed.
17. We managed to drag the two men apart before they could harm each other.
18. Aitken and his wife have been living apart.
19. We hate being apart
20. but Gary emails me every day.
21. Galbraith’s views and my own are not far apart on the issue of free trade.
22. When the talks ended
23. the two sides seemed as far apart as ever.
24. [be poles apart/be worlds apart] : Politically
25. Gorbachev and Thatcher were poles apart
26. but they became friends.
27. The Swiss economy is a case apart
28. unlike any other.
29. [set someone apart] : His style sets him apart from other writers.
30. [fall apart] : Costello lost his job
31. and soon afterwards his marriage fell apart.
32. [come apart] : The Health Service is coming apart
33. and only a large investment of cash can save it.
34. [tear something apart] : Yugoslavia was being torn apart by ethnic conflicts.