Definitions for detach
dɪˈtætʃde·tach

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detachverb

   cause to become detached or separated; take off

   "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"

2. detachverb

   separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment

   "detach a regiment"

3. detach, come off, come awayverb

   come to be detached

   "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detachverb

   To take apart from; to take off.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To DETACHverb

   Etymology: detacher, French.

   1. To separate; to disengage; to part from something.

   The heat takes along with it a sort of vegetative and terrestrial matter, which it detaches from the uppermost stratum. John Woodward, Natural History, p. iii.

   The several parts of it are detached one from the other, and yet join again one cannot tell how. Alexander Pope.

   2. To send out part of a greater body of men on an expedition.

   If ten men are in war with forty, and the latter detach only an equal number to the engagement, what benefit do they receive from their superiority? Joseph Addison, on the State of the War.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detach

   To detach means to remove, disconnect, or disengage something from its attachment, association, or connection from anything else. It may involve physical separation like detaching a document from an email, or emotional withdrawal such as detaching oneself emotionally from a particular situation or person.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detachverb

   to part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party

2. Detachverb

   to separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment

3. Detachverb

   to push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Detach

   de-tach′, v.t. to unfasten: to take from or separate: to withdraw: to send off on special service.—v.i. to separate one's self.—adj. Detach′able.—p.adj. Detached′, unconnected: separate: free from care, passion, ambition, and worldly bonds.—adv. Detach′edly.—ns. Detach′edness; Detach′ment, state of being separated: that which is detached, as a body of troops. [Fr. détacher—de, neg., and root of attach.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. detach

   To separate for a special object or use; as, to send out a body of men on some particular service, separate from that of the main body.

Matched Categories

1. • Disconnect
   • Military
   • Separate

How to pronounce detach?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say detach in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of detach in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of detach in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of detach in a Sentence

1. Mark Amodei:

   You have to totally detach yourself from any expectations on process since the process is now private meetings, it's déjà vu in that there seems to be an absolute phobia for holding a committee meeting on the record for establishing foundation for what you did, which I don't think is a great start.

2. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

   All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

3. Kevin Harvick:

   You know where you can push and how you can push and how far you can push, and you can't push them all the way into the corner and against the fence, it was a hell of a race. Just really dumb driving there at the end. You've got to be aggressive, but you've still got to use your head. You can't just detach it and lay it on the floorboard.

4. Quin Snyder:

   After eight years, I just feel it is time to move onward. I needed to take time to detach after the season and make sure this was the right decision.

5. Robert Bresson:

   An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=detach
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Detach
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=detach
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/detach
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=detach
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html