(a.) Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was revealed that sucrose induces the appearance of negative disjointing pressure.
(2) The results of a series of benchmarking studies based upon artificial statistical pattern recognition tasks indicate that the proposed architecture performs significantly better than conventional feedforward classifier networks when the decision regions are disjoint.
(3) They fire and fire and then stop and if they’re going off to work – there’s no organisation, no leaders, no battle command, it’s all disjointed.” Which settlement was this in?
(4) Admittedly, Greece look a poor, disjointed side, but this was still a performance to bring back memories of South Korea's wild and eccentric run to the semi-finals, when they co‑hosted the tournament in 2002.
(5) Refugees are streaming into Slovenia , diverted overnight by the closure of Hungary’s border with Croatia, in the latest demonstration of Europe’s disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its borders.
(6) He indirectly signalled that Europe's attempts to get to grips with the crisis over the past 18 months had been disjointed, indecisive, and unproductive.
(7) A parallel is drawn with dreams, which consist of disjointed and distorted information encoded during waking hours.
(8) Three not completely disjoint abstract functions of the nervous system, namely pattern formation, pattern recognition and action, can be treated in a unified conceptual framework.
(9) The official booked two home players, Willian and Diego Costa, for simulation during a disjointed contest but opted against showing Cahill, already booked for a bad foul on Sone Aluko, a second yellow card after he tumbled between Tom Huddlestone and David Meyler apparently in search of a penalty.
(10) But marketing and communications experts in Oregon who have closely followed the standoff, which has caused a major backlash in the nearby town of Burns , said the militia’s PR tactics were disjointed and chaotic and were only breeding further resentment from the people they purport to be helping.
(11) The 33-year-old’s disjointed CV stands out as an extreme example of a growing section of Spanish society made up of those ousted from the workforce during the economic crisis and now struggling to land anything but precarious short-term contracts.
(12) This year, money has been spent and spirits were high at kick-off, yet a disjointed performance against Crystal Palace headed towards another situation where the new season curtain didn’t so much swish open as collapse unceremoniously as the game slunk into stoppage time all square.
(13) I have to assume that an outside entity was feeding her lines, as it is the only explanation for her shambolic, disjointed lunacy.
(14) United's disjointed evening was summed up near the end when the misfiring Danny Welbeck produced a shot that wobbled past Narit Taweekul's right post as the striker fell over.
(15) Its first section appears to take place on a cruise ship: various disjointed sequences follow one another; then we shift to a family-owned petrol station somewhere in France.
(16) Emancipatory interventions are provided to help nurses launch a new direction toward freeing their clients, rather than herding them through an uncaring and disjointed health and social service system.
(17) In her last major political appearance in the state, in January last year, Palin gave a rambling, disjointed address to a presidential cattle call organized by Iowa congressman Steve King.
(18) The disjoint pattern of activations in extravisual brain regions during selective- and divided-attention conditions also suggests that preceptual judgements involve different neural systems, depending on attentional strategies.
(19) The online experience of the green deal, which has been criticised for being disjointed, would shortly be overhauled and improved, he said.
(20) This attitude of trying to please everyone can result in a disjointed film experience to those not accustomed to the Bollywood staple of "masala" films.
Garbled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Garble
Example Sentences:
(1) His phone calls have become filled with echoes and garbled talk.
(2) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
(3) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(4) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
(5) The text seemed more like garbled science fiction than a guide for students and civil servants.
(6) Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent - but dominant Read more But while the doubts stuck to more moderate Republican candidates, in their own way they stuck to the Donald as well.
(7) Wodehouse called it a "frightful label", and his garbled childhood pronunciation, 'Plum', became his affectionate nickname for the rest of his life.
(8) I'll do a round-up shortly... • - and not garbling his chambers of Congress as I unforgivably did earlier.
(9) Clean energy is really struggling because the story has gotten garbled," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation .
(10) Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton?” Trump was unapologetic, although his explanation was garbled.
(11) Coburn appeared uncomfortable, frequently garbling his words and drawing derisive laughter from the audience.
(12) Each usage is found to be imprecise and unreliable, and many of the usages are garbled, with inappropriate comparisons commonly made among them.
(13) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.
(14) It doesn’t matter what language you are speaking, if you are speaking in a garbled fashion.” 8.46pm BST Meanwhile my Guardian colleagues and I are being booed ... ... for not participating in the Mexican wave in the stadium.
(15) So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to “dump” material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
(16) • This article was updated on 26 July 2014 to edit a garbled quote at the end of the text.
(17) "If (for example) a person doesn't speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work," he wrote, but conceded that this was "an error of judgment".
(18) Unsplitting the infinitive in the New Yorker cartoon caption "I'm moving to France to not get fat" (yielding "I'm moving to France not to get fat") would garble the meaning, and doing so with "Profits are expected to more than double this year," would result in gibberish: "Profits are expected more than to double this year."
(19) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
(20) • This article was amended on 19 February 2016 to correct a percentage given for Cambridge in the last paragraph and clarify an earlier garbled sentence.