(v. t.) To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military service; as, to disband an army.
(v. t.) To divorce.
(v. i.) To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the City's regulatory framework being tightened by the coalition government, which is disbanding the FSA and handing control of bank oversight to the Bank of England , there is concern in London that the US politicians are being opportunistic.
(2) The officer filmed striking Tomlinson was a member of the territorial support group, which replaced the disbanded SPG in 1987.
(3) The Coag Reform Council – which is to be disbanded at the end of this month – painted a mixed picture of health progress over the past five years, with life expectancy lengthening (to 79.9 years for men and 84.3 years for women) but the proportion of those who are obese or overweight is increasing (to 62.7%).
(4) Since this dedicated unit was disbanded there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people who are begging, she told the council earlier this year.
(5) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
(6) Where : Malaysia Who : The Bersih rallies NGO alert: Cambodia legislation gives government new powers to monitor, fine or disband Read more What’s happening?
(7) The group disbanded temporarily in 1985, the Wembley Live Aid appearance being the last performance by this lineup.
(8) The City regulator faced further uncertainty this morning as chief executive Hector Sants announced his resignation just months before a general election that could result in the disbandment of the Financial Services Authority.
(9) These parties, with an electoral pact, could win an election to form a one-term coalition to introduce a fair form of proportional representation, after which they could disband.
(10) Corbyn had accused Nato of being an expansionist body that should have been disbanded at the end of the cold war.
(11) Malema became known as tough, playing dirty against those who opposed him for office, disbanding branches of the organisation that did not support him and at times taking to his opponents with his fists.
(12) As late as April 2008, serious discussions were held over whether to disband the force entirely and start again.
(13) The team of regional advisers and rough sleeper and youth specialists which have provided councils with expert guidance on meeting statutory homelessness duties since 2007 will be disbanded just as the bedroom tax comes in.
(14) The Brotherhood denies negotiating with the military, but some sources suggest senior Brotherhood officials have contemplated a compromise that would see the camp disbanded in exchange for the release of senior Muslim Brothers from prison.
(15) These were: the immediate lifting of the 30-year emergency law; the immediate release of all political prisoners; the annulment of the current constitution and all amendments; the disbandment of the present parliament, the Shura (consultative) council and regional councils; and, within nine months, to hold a free and fair election in which all political forces can participate, to be run by a national government under an independent presidential council.
(16) Local media has since reported the new attorney general, Ano Pala, was under instruction to disband Investigative Taskforce Sweep, something the head of the taskforce, Sam Koim, said was true.
(17) Salim Jabar, one of Libya's most popular television preachers, has demanded the women's team disband, saying it was against the strictures of Islam.
(18) While the NDP was disbanded and its offices shut down in 2011, months after an uprising toppled the autocratic Mubarak, its members could still run in elections.
(19) Corrupt officers based at the now disbanded unit were known as the "groovy gang".
(20) The force previously served as former president Viktor Yanukovich's shock troops but was officially disbanded after clashing with protesters at the Euromaidan demonstrations in Kiev.
Disintegrate
Definition:
(v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences.
(v. i.) To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.
Example Sentences:
(1) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
(2) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(3) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
(4) In order to identify these anchorage structures, the non-DNA materials that remain firmly bound to chromosomal DNA under conditions that disintegrate the high salt-stable architecture of nuclei were investigated.
(5) Bone cement particles promote polyethylene wear, which in turn promotes granuloma formation, bone resorption, and subsequent bone cement disintegration.
(6) The platelet disintegration is associated with a loss in the metabolic activity, discharge of LDH, increased susceptibility to phospholipid hydrolysis by phospholipase C and is found to be initiated during the actual preparation of platelet concentrates.
(7) By electron microscopy, accumulations of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in various degrees of disintegration were associated with areas of the basement membrane that appeared to be losing their structural integrity, suggesting that the damage to the membrane was brought about by the action of lysosomal enzymes.
(8) Scanning electronmicroscopy examination showed that the morphology of NCH blastula cells, which were obtained from the combination of Tilapia nucleus and goldfish cytoplasm, manifested obviously abnormal features and the cells were arrested at different stages of cell disintegration.
(9) The disruption by means of the Hews press yielded a more active preparation as compared with ultrasonic disintegration.
(10) And even after the disintegration of stone with ESWL, hydronephrosis remained due to ureteral stricture with small stone fragments.
(11) Cases of disintegrating pulmonary metastases are presented.
(12) To ascertain whether azo dyes are associated with risk of development of bladder tumors in workers who handpaint Yuzen-type silk kimonos in Kyoto, we investigated the disintegration of dyes to benzidine.
(13) During more extended exposure (60 and 90 days) the changes in hair cells of the spiral organ, which included nuclear deformation and disintegration of chromatin, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum membranes, became irreversible and caused the decay of injured cells.
(14) Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is neither hateful nor pure: it’s complicated | John Harris Read more Their dilemma is plain: if they make a stand against what is happening, they stand accused of disloyalty by Corbyn’s supporters; but if they go along with it, they are complicit in Labour’s probable disintegration when voters realise the party has been taken over by people they can never vote for.
(15) The dissolution t50 and various pharmacokinetic parameters showed directly compressible starch and carboxymethylstarch to be the most effective disintegrants in the concentrations employed while magnesium aluminum silicate and microcrystalline cellulose were about equal but less effective than the previous disintegrants.
(16) At this stage it appeared as if the basement membrane had also begun to disintegrate.
(17) The effect of 5 per cent starch as a disintegrating agent in the tablet formulation was also studied.
(18) Finally they disintegrate to fragments which are mixed with MPS-granules.
(19) Incorporating polyvinylpyrrolidone, gelatin and methylcellulose binding agents in a metronidazole formulation alters the tensile strength, disintegration and dissolution times of the tablets by reducing their wettability as measured by the adhesion tension of water.
(20) Studies by light and electron microscopy showed that these histiocytes disintegrated to liberate their lamellar inclusions into the alveolar spaces, producing a picture reminiscent of alveolar proteinosis.