What's the difference between disconnect and unfasten?

Disconnect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
  • (2) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (3) A pre-operative diagnosis of otosclerosis was made but at tympanotomy, the stapes crura in each ear was found to be disconnected from the footplate, the ossicular chain being otherwise normal.
  • (4) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
  • (5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
  • (6) Nearly three quarters (73%) said if they were disconnected, they would find their ability to use vital commercial services, such as shopping and banking, completely disrupted or fairly harmed.
  • (7) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
  • (8) Frontal hypothalamic deafferentation (FHD), which disconnects the anterior hypothalamus from the preoptic area, stops the twice daily surges of prolactin secretion of pregnancy or pseudopregnancy in the rat, and causes rapid luteolysis.
  • (9) The results of these studies support the contention that anterolateral MBH neural connections may constitute a dynamic neural substrate contributing to a gradual improvement in neuroendocrine function observed after early surgical disconnections.
  • (10) O2 has warned that it will disconnect anyone it discovers doing that, though it would not say how it would identify them.
  • (11) For me, the simple reason is I tried a three-day week and found I struggled to keep on top of work, felt disconnected from my colleagues' rhythm, felt guilty about so much time off, and was so bad at freelancing I ended up working many more hours for less money.
  • (12) The stages of recognition are analysed through this case of visual verbal disconnection and the importance of memory in perception is highlighted.
  • (13) Similarities were increased number of lipid droplets in the cumulus cells, widened peri-vitelline space, peripheral displacement or breakdown of the oocyte nucleus and disconnection of the junctions between cumulus cell projections and the oolemma.
  • (14) Attempts to estimate mean skin temperature for subjects during prolonged experiments in field conditions are often made difficult because probes become disconnected or cease to function.
  • (15) Where are Cisco and other companies whose equipment is used to connect the net and by some governments to disconnect it?
  • (16) The emergency operation which has effectively achieved the stopping of the esophageal bleeding has been the porto-azygos disconnection, which allows later a portosystemic shunt with a greater probability of success.
  • (17) Surgery, performed under cardio-pulmonary bypass after epicardial mapping, consisted in atrioventricular disconnection using no special physical agent.
  • (18) Hypoemotionality was found only for visual stimuli, since auditory and tactile modalities were totally spared, suggesting a visual-limbic disconnection mechanism.
  • (19) In the first case the exhaust system intentionally had been disconnected.
  • (20) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.

Unfasten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clip was found to have come unfastened; simple repeat closure was performed.
  • (2) Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Showing off some long-craved organisation and defensive resilience, Sunderland also offered sporadic threats on the break.
  • (3) LTD4 levels in the muscle also increased at the fastened site just before and 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (4) After unfastening, the rabbits showed a gradual decline of blood pressure, and one died 7 hours after unfastening.
  • (5) When I mentioned this , he told me he was planning on having its voice box unfastened so it would not be so annoying, and gave me a wicked smile.
  • (6) On the contrary, LTD4 levels in the blood increased just before and 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (7) I had no arguments with the Sunderland bench, there is nothing else to say, except that it might be the first time I have ever been called soft.” Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Liverpool are at West Ham United on Saturday, where Klopp could have been in the opposing dugout had the London club’s owners had their way in the summer.
  • (8) The amounts of LTB4, LTD4 and LTE4 in the blood and muscle were measured just before unfastening and 3, 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (9) Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling fails to turn up for training, citing illness Read more 2) Indulge in a little bit of misconduct What better way to unfasten yourself from your contract (and sell yourself to new employers) than to stoop to arguably the lowest rank of (un)professionalism: gross misconduct.
  • (10) Leaning down to unfasten the latch brought one into close proximity to the holes on either side of the gate.
  • (11) LTE4 levels in the blood increased 3 hours, and those in the muscle 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (12) To open the gate one had to bend down to unfasten a latch 45 cm above ground level.