What's the difference between disassociate and divorce?

Disassociate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
  • (2) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
  • (3) Unlike intact acidotic and glucocorticoid-supplemented ADX acidotic rats, glutamine extraction was disassociated from the delivered glutamine load consonant with the role of glucocorticoid in coupling cellular glutamine transport to its metabolic utilization.
  • (4) These data demonstrate disassociation of modulation of transforming growth factor-beta 1 expression and mucin deposition by retinoic acid and sodium lauryl sulfate in human skin in vivo.
  • (5) These findings suggest that two goals that adolescent drug abuse programs should stress are working heavily on developing positive peer relations and family support while they encourage disassociation from deviant friends.
  • (6) Treatment of cells with chloramphenicol or rifampin caused a disassociation of the apparent DNA-outer membrane complex.
  • (7) In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation.
  • (8) This constitutes an anatomical disassociation of amphetamine's rewarding and aversive effects.
  • (9) C. difficile and C. perfringens became established more rapidly when disassociated than when monoassociated with axenic hares.
  • (10) In comparison with the healthy subjects, the hemiplegic subjects showed a greater disassociation between agonist and antagonist activation, a larger frequency of response defaults in the antagonist, and an increase in nonparetic (left) limb agonist amplitude during the 200-msec electromyographic integration period.
  • (11) Disassociation of F1 from Fo under conditions of assay did partially contribute to the H+ leakiness, but the major contributor to the high H+ conductance was Fo with bound F1.
  • (12) The results obtained by chronic administration of the catecholamines support the concept of a disassociation of adrenomedullary and sympathetic nervous system metabolic effects.
  • (13) Mild alkaline reduction was ineffective in disassociating carbohydrate chains from the protein core.
  • (14) In the presence of Ca2+ (greater than 1 microM) this protein disassociates from F-actin and reassociates with calmodulin.
  • (15) This disassociation was only seen in BF from exercise-trained rats, and was not true of TFL.
  • (16) The data indicate that TSF may exist normally as a dimer (30 kd), but can disassociate to 15 kd without loss of bioactivity.
  • (17) The characteristic feature of all dissociants detected in all systems was their plasmid profile: in phase I, plasmids of 120 and 60 Md, as well as small plasmids, were detected; in phase II disassociants, plasmid with a molecular weight of 120 Md was absent.
  • (18) Sisi himself has called for reform in Islam in order to disassociate it from extremists.
  • (19) Secretory endometrium was found in 54.8% of the women, proliferative endometrium in 32.2%, cellular debris in 4.9% and stromoglandular disassociation in 8.1%.
  • (20) The biologic result is further disassociation to the monomer after subcutaneous or i.v.

Divorce


Definition:

  • (n.) Separation; disunion of things closely united.
  • (n.) That which separates.
  • (n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
  • (n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."
  • (n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
  • (n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
  • (n.) To separate or disunite; to sunder.
  • (n.) To make away; to put away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
  • (2) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (3) Of course, every divorce is costly; but muddling through would be even more costly.
  • (4) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
  • (5) Last year I became involved with a divorced man 16 years younger than me.
  • (6) Six hypotheses to explain how divorce may affect the trajectory of child development were tested using standardized measures and sociodemographic data.
  • (7) The implications of these data for theories of post-divorce adaptation and adult attachment are discussed.
  • (8) Those with lower knowledge of AIDS were more likely to be separated, divorced or widowed, older, and more personally concerned about AIDS.
  • (9) It critiques this literature and compares the findings with literature on the effects of separation in father absence related to other causes (for example, divorce, death, military service).
  • (10) Whether divorce interrupts the savings process or destroys assets, it is unlikely that most individuals will be able to save enough in later life to overcome the loss.
  • (11) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (12) In the latest round of the epic divorce battle between Michelle and Scot Young, the judge, Mr Justice Moor, is making a fresh attempt to discover how much the property dealer is worth.
  • (13) It remains the case that the economic status of men and women diverge substantially in the years after divorce.
  • (14) A heavy smoker – “I once quit for four months … but why should I torture myself at my age?” – and outspoken supporter of gay marriage, the divorced and recently remarried father of two collected more than 4,000 signatures from Austrian public figures and celebrities during his presidential campaign.
  • (15) Getting a divorce really sucks,” she says, adding that she still doesn’t view their nine-year marriage as a failure.
  • (16) Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02).
  • (17) He said some or all of about $100,000 withdrawn from the account was spent on Jackson’s divorce proceedings, court documents show.
  • (18) The frequency of marriage and divorce did not differ from that of the general population.
  • (19) Clarification: Jirehouse Capital and Stephen Jones - see Clarification and footnote Jailed British property developer Scot Young, an associate of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, constructed a secret network of offshore companies to hold his assets during a multimillion-pound divorce battle, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ's) research.
  • (20) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.