Definition of detach

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Detach (v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment..

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Detachable :: Detachable (a.) That can be detached.
Wean :: Wean (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything..
Detach :: Detach (v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment..
Studbook :: Stud (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs..
Distraction :: Distraction (n.) A diversity of direction; detachment.
Pier :: Pier (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings..
Decision :: Decision (n.) Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
Draft :: Draft (v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select..
Disengage :: Disengage (v. i.) To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.
Draught :: Draught (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2).
Unsecularize :: Unsecularize (v. t.) To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
Hectocotylus :: Hectocotylus (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes..
Detachment :: Detachment (n.) The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached..
Fragment :: Fragment (v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing..
Outlying :: Outlying (a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached..
Debris :: Debris (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base..
Ephyra :: Ephyra (n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila..
L''envoy :: L'envoy (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry..
Dotted :: Dotted (a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects..
Detach :: Detach (v. t.) To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party..
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