What does sever mean?
Definitions for sever
ˈsɛv ərsev·er
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sever.
Princeton's WordNet
sever, break upverb
set or keep apart
"sever a relationship"
discerp, sever, lopverb
cut off from a whole
"His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
Wiktionary
seververb
To cut free.
After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
seververb
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Seververb
Etymology: sevrer, French; separo, Latin.
Forgetful queen, who severed that bright head,
Which charm’d two mighty monarchs to her bed. George Granville.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.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.This axiom is of large extent, and would be severed and refined by trial. Francis Bacon.
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.
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.
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.
Wikipedia
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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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 Dictionary
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
Seververb
to cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg
Seververb
to keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt
Seververb
to disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy
Seververb
to suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate
Seververb
to make a separation or distinction; to distinguish
Etymology: [OF. sevrer, severer, to separate, F. sevrer to wean, fr. L. separare. See Separate, and cf. Several.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Contribution
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.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sever in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sever in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of sever in a Sentence
A banned coach has to sever relationships with those athletes. That's what's taking place, coaches and athletes have to make judgments all the time. If you are coached by somebody, you should be absolutely comfortable that you are working in an environment that's safe and secure and is not going to damage you own reputation. An athlete should ask those questions.
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.
To be an effective care provider, physicians need to communicate with patients honestly and without the fear of generating hurt feelings that might sever a typical friendship.
If? Parscale? wanted to sever himself completely from the super PAC, then I don't know why he would create a company involving his wife, it's hard to know if there's a legal issue or not, because of the lack of transparency.
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.
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- durchtrennen, abtrennen, trennen, abbrechenGerman
- cortar, romperSpanish
- kitkeä, lopettaa, tehdä ero, erottaa, eriyttää, katkaista, [[joutua]] [[eroon]]Finnish
- trancher, sectionner, rompreFrench
- elvágHungarian
- recidere, tagliare, troncareItalian
- 断つ, 断ち切る, 切断Japanese
- 절단하다Korean
- saraut, nogrieztLatvian
- hāparapara, momotuMāori
- lossnijdenDutch
- zerwaćPolish
- cortarPortuguese
- отрезать, разрывать, разорватьRussian
- klippa av, kapa, hugga avSwedish
- 断绝Chinese
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