(adv.) Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.
(adv.) In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.
(adv.) Aside; away.
(adv.) In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(2) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(3) Apart from their pathogenic significance, these results may have some interest for the clinical investigation of patients with joint diseases.
(4) Each subject received, on 2 separate days 1 week apart, an intravenous injection of either placebo or urapidil (25 or, if necessary, 50 mg).
(5) Many Cornish people believe the far south-west of England is a nation apart from the rest of Britain.
(6) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
(7) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
(8) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
(9) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(10) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(11) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(12) One may speculate whether clinical conditions exist--apart from hereditary retinal dystrophies--in which the retina becomes more sensitive to light from strong artificial or natural sources, which are otherwise innoxious.
(13) In recent years, apart from these well known risks, the immuno-suppressive effect of blood transfusions has been observed and thereby the possible adverse influence on the prognosis in cases of malignant disease.
(14) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(15) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(16) They were placed less than 5 m apart, and estimation of the pollen amount was made on a day-to-day basis during the pollen seasons, and on a weekly basis outside the seasons.
(17) Apart from the interposition of the colon between the liver and the diaphragm, no other pathological changes were found.
(18) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
(19) There were no major differences in blood composition, apart from increases in blood urea N, as a result of N fertilization.
(20) cDNA was prepared by reverse transcription of peripheral blood mRNA and amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers corresponding to sequences 400 bp apart on the cDNA, spanning the last three exons (X, Y, Z) of the beta-Sp gene.
Distant
Definition:
(a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
(a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
(a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
(a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
(a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(2) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(4) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
(5) Seven patients died, six because of distant metastases within one year.
(6) Local or distant metastases presented in 6 patients.
(7) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(8) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
(9) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
(10) The national study accrued 216 patients with measurable or evaluable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with either unresectable stage III, or distant metastasis (stage IV).
(11) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
(12) Although a high rate of local control can be expected, distant metastases continue to be a problem.
(13) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
(14) Concomitant immunity (CI) is defined as the lack or retardation or proliferation of a secondary tumor implant at a distant site; it has been given an immunological interpretation.
(15) Children with osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma rarely have bone disease distant from the site of their primary bone lesion at presentation.
(16) The effect of combined treatment was studied in 97 patients with nonseminomatous testicular tumors with regional and distant metastases with regard to the blood serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein and chorionic gonadotropin.
(17) At diagnosis, 15 (16.5%) patients had regional metastases and six (7%) had distant metastases.
(18) The PPi-dependent Pfk of potato is only distantly related to the ATP-dependent enzymes.
(19) Sequences homologous to Inp are present in multiple copies in the N. plumbaginifolia and the N. tabacum genome but not in more distant species.
(20) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.