Definitions for Sever
ˈsɛv ərsev·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. sever, break upverb

   set or keep apart

   "sever a relationship"

2. discerp, sever, lopverb

   cut off from a whole

   "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. seververb

   To cut free.

   After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.

2. seververb

   To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

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

1. To Seververb

   Etymology: sevrer, French; separo, Latin.

   1. To part by violence from the rest.

   Forgetful queen, who severed that bright head,
   Which charm’d two mighty monarchs to her bed. George Granville.

   2. To divide; to part; to force asunder.

   They are not so far disjoined and severed, but that they come at length to meet. Richard Hooker.

   Fortune, divorce
   Pomp from the bearer, ’tis a suff’rance panging,
   As soul and body’s sev’ring. William Shakespeare, Hen. VIII.

   Our force by land
   Hath nobly held; our sever’d navy too
   Have knit again, and float. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleop.

   What thou art is mine:
   Our state cannot be sever’d, we are one,
   One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. John Milton.

   3. To separate; to put in different orders or places.

   The angels shall sever the wicked from among the just. Mat.

   He, with his guide, the farther fields attain’d;
   Where sever’d from the rest the warrior souls remain’d. Dryd.

   4. To separate by chimical operation.

   This axiom is of large extent, and would be severed and refined by trial. Francis Bacon.

   5. To disjoin, to disunite.

   Look, love, what envious streaks
   Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. William Shakespeare.

   How stiff is my vile sense,
   That I stand up and have ingenious feeling
   Of my huge sorrows! better I were distract,
   So should my thoughts be sever’d from my griefs;
   And woes by wrong imaginations, lose
   The knowledge of themselves. William Shakespeare.

   The medical virtues lodge in some one or other of its principles, and may therefore usefully be sought for in that principle sever’d from the others. Boyle.

   6. To keep distinct; to keep apart.

   Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;
   Not separated with the racking clouds,
   But sever’d in a pale clear-shining sky. William Shakespeare.

   I will sever Goshen, that no swarms of flies shall be there. Exod. viii. 22.

2. To Seververb

   To make a separation; to make a partition.

   The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and of Egypt. Exod. ix. 4.

   There remains so much religion, as to know how to sever between the use and abuse of things. Charles I .

   Better from me thou sever not. John Milton.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sever

   Tropospheric scatter, also known as troposcatter, is a method of communicating with microwave radio signals over considerable distances – often up to 500 kilometres (310 mi) and further depending on frequency of operation, equipment type, terrain, and climate factors. This method of propagation uses the tropospheric scatter phenomenon, where radio waves at UHF and SHF frequencies are randomly scattered as they pass through the upper layers of the troposphere. Radio signals are transmitted in a narrow beam aimed just above the horizon in the direction of the receiver station. As the signals pass through the troposphere, some of the energy is scattered back toward the Earth, allowing the receiver station to pick up the signal.Normally, signals in the microwave frequency range travel in straight lines, and so are limited to line-of-sight applications, in which the receiver can be 'seen' by the transmitter. Communication distances are limited by the visual horizon to around 48–64 kilometres (30–40 mi). Troposcatter allows microwave communication beyond the horizon. It was developed in the 1950s and used for military communications until communications satellites largely replaced it in the 1970s. Because the troposphere is turbulent and has a high proportion of moisture, the tropospheric scatter radio signals are refracted and consequently only a tiny proportion of the transmitted radio energy is collected by the receiving antennas. Frequencies of transmission around 2 GHz are best suited for tropospheric scatter systems as at this frequency the wavelength of the signal interacts well with the moist, turbulent areas of the troposphere, improving signal-to-noise ratios.

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1. sever

   To sever is to break off or to put an end to a connection, relationship, or legal contract. It can also mean to cut or divide something, particularly into parts or pieces, often suddenly or violently.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Seververb

   to separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body

2. Seververb

   to cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg

3. Seververb

   to keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt

4. Seververb

   to disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy

5. Seververb

   to suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate

6. Seververb

   to make a separation or distinction; to distinguish

7. Etymology: [OF. sevrer, severer, to separate, F. sevrer to wean, fr. L. separare. See Separate, and cf. Several.]

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

1. Sever

   sev′ėr, v.t. to separate with violence: to cut apart: to divide: (B.) to keep distinct.—v.i. to make a separation, to act independently: to be rent asunder.—adj. Sev′erable.—n. Sev′erance, act of severing: separation. [Fr. sevrer, to wean—L. separāre, to separate.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SEVER

   to cut through a part of something so that it is separated completely from the main part, or to be separated completely in this way;to put or keep apart : DIVIDE,especially : to remove (something, such as a part) by or as if by cutting;to become separated;to become separated from each other;To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument:carve, cleave, cut, dissever, slice, slit, split.to end something such as a friendship or a connection completely and permanently;To end a friendship or relationship:defriend,unfriend,break off;break up, decouple, disassociate,disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, disunite (an estate, titles of a statute, etc.).,Divorce, part, ramify,resolve, separate,sunder, uncouple, unlink, unyoke; ,part,rend (literary),detach, bisect,cut in two,sunder,sunder,discontinue, terminate, abandon, dissolve, put an end to, dissociate;to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.to divide into parts, especially forcibly;to break off or dissolve (ties, relations, etc.).Law. to divide into parts; to distinguish; discriminate between.become divided into parts.

   
   

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SEVER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sever is ranked #14511 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Sever surname appeared 2,055 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Sever.
   
   92.8% or 1,907 total occurrences were White.
   2.6% or 55 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 40 total occurrences were Black.
   1.6% or 33 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 14 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.2% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Anagrams for Sever »

1. serve

2. veers

3. verse

How to pronounce Sever?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Sever in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sever in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sever in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Sever in a Sentence

1. Jefferson Davis:

   The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

2. Ahmed Zayat:

   I was horrified, and for me there is no tolerance for anything like that, it was a very hard decision to sever the relationship, but I had to do it in the best interest of my horses and what I believe is morally right, not just politically right.

3. Ryan McCormick:

   Breaking the Silence. if they really want to distance themselves [from the Duggar family] they sever all ties. They do what the WWE did, which was completely sever all ties from Hulk Hogan.

4. Frederika Bremer:

   There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

5. Pope Francis:

   It is chilling to think of determined efforts to instill a sense of inferiority, to rob people of their cultural identity, to sever their roots, and to consider all the personal and social effects that this continues to entail: unresolved traumas that have become inter-generational traumas.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Sever
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sever
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Sever
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sever
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sever
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Sever
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html