(v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.
(v. i.) To separate, to open; to cleave.
(n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
(n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.
(v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
(v. t.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quantitative estimate of the dispartate affinities of Mg(II) to ATP bound at the two sites on the enzyme was made on the basis of computer simulation of changes in the line shape of beta-P (ATP) resonance and of changes in 31P chemical shift of the corresponding gamma-P (ATP) in the E.ATP complex with increasing [Mg(II)].
(2) In separate experiments, subfraction differences in oxidation rates as assessed by TBARS formation were verified by the finding of similarly dispartate changes in fluorescence intensity and anionic electrophoretic mobility.
(v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
(v. i.) To divert or amuse; to make merry.
(v. i.) To remove from a port; to carry away.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the static shearing displacement between the tectorial membrane and the organ of Corti, caused by the displacement of the basilar membrane, may partially decouple the hair cells from the tectorial membrane, an event that would explain the tinnitus, recruitment, and perhaps even the disportional loss of speech intelligibility associated with endolymphatic hydrops.
(2) But on the first of those two matches in Basel, the Germans fielded numerous reserves, Hungary won 8-3, and Grosics, for once not taking matters too seriously, was culpable on the last two of those goals, disporting himself outside the penalty box.
(3) By such an approach, where drug plasma levels are related to drug effects and to the pathophysiological condition, the significance of various factors on drug disportion during development will be better clarified, thus allowing a more rational and safer therapy in the newborn.