(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.
Partition
Definition:
(v.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
(v.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions.
(v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
(v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
(v.) A score.
(v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.
(v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative rates of reduction of several spin-labeled molecules that partition differently across the hy-drophobic-interface of inner membranes from rat liver mitochondria were investigated.
(2) Isoprenylated proteins were enriched in the detergent phase upon partition with the non-ionic detergent Triton X-114.
(3) This provides unequivocal evidence that partitioning is the dominant form of retention for small nonpolar solutes.
(4) Folch extraction and partition followed by silicic acid column chromatography revealed the antigens to be glycolipids.
(5) The volume changes of the respiratory system were partitioned using an inductance plethysmograph.
(6) Equilibrium-partitioning measurements indicate that the relative affinities of different probes for PC-rich vesicles, in competition with HODMA or DOTAP vesicles, increase with increasing hydrogen-bonding capacity of the probe headgroup in the order PC less than N,N-dimethyl PE less than N-methyl PE less than PE approximately phosphatidyl-2-amino-1-propanol.
(7) The partition ratio of 2.0 obtained for the reaction with L 658758 approaches that of an optimal inhibitor.
(8) In addition, our data suggest that part of the difference may reside in differential partitioning of lipid into lysosomes.
(9) Changing the partition of the load on the femoral surface and the permeability at the tibial surface changes the time-dependent response, but has little effect on the strain distributions at times of the order of 5 s considered in this study.
(10) This symmetry, with respect to the sign of the charge, indicates that discreteness-of-charge effects are not significant in determining the potential-sensitive phase partitioning of these probes in model membranes.
(11) At pH 7.0, acrylamide partitions between the bulk aqueous phase and the proteins, human serum albumin, monellin and ovalbumin.
(12) Two-phase systems consisting of water, dextran and poly(ethylene glycol) have been used for partition of membranes obtained from Torpedo marmorata electric organ.
(13) P61 is solubilized by Triton X-114 treatment of membranes and partitions into the detergent phase upon warming.
(14) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(15) The history of the relationship of biological activity to partition coefficient and related properties is briefly reviewed.
(16) Triton X-114 solubilized material from both the virulent and attenuated strains, which partitioned into the hydrophobic, detergent phase, contained LLS and major proteins of 41 and 44 kDa, which were also immunoprecipitable from intact organisms.
(17) This may lead to large errors in pathological tissue because the partition coefficient changes significantly in brain tumors.
(18) Experimental data are presented for: (a) the flux of diflorasone diacetate through hairless mouse skin, (b) the percutaneous penetration profile of propylene glycol, (c) the effects of vehicle concentrations of polyoxypropylene 15 stearyl ether and propylene glycol on the percutaneous flux of diflorasone diacetate, (d) skin--vehicle partition coefficients of diflorasone diacetate, (e) the solubility profile of diflorasone diacetate as a function of solvent concentration, and (f) the alteration of the skin's resistance to the penetration of diflorasone diacetate due to propylene glycol.
(19) Our present results thus provide parameters for the separation of cells by partition in addition to or instead of membrane charge depending on the polymer and salt composition and concentration selected.
(20) A methanol-aqueous KCl extraction is used, followed by cleanup with clarifying agents and partition into chloroform.