TAKE APART
Dictionary entry overview: What does take apart mean?
• TAKE APART (verb)
The verb TAKE APART has 3 senses:
1. take apart into its constituent pieces
2. divide into pieces
3. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
Familiarity information: TAKE APART used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• TAKE APART (verb)
Meaning:
Take apart into its constituent pieces
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
break apart; disassemble; take apart; dismantle; break up
Hypernyms (to "take apart" is one way to...):
destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Divide into pieces
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
discerp; take apart; dismember
Context examples:
our department was dismembered when our funding dried up / The Empire was discerped after the war
Hypernyms (to "take apart" is one way to...):
divide; part; separate (come apart)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
break down; analyze; dissect; analyse; take apart
Context examples:
analyze a specimen / analyze a sentence / analyze a chemical compound
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take apart"):
parse (analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence))
botanise; botanize (collect and study plants)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
