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# apart

«apart» in Mova's school dictionary: **away from each other, with space between** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (apart)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Apart means away from each other, with space between. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#m1)

2) Apart means into pieces: «it fell apart». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#m2)

3) «Apart from» means except, not counting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#m3)

4) Apart means separate, alone: «He stood apart». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#m4)

5) Apart can be used with "tell" or "distinguish" to mean to see the difference between things: can you tell the twins apart? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

the distance between two things or the time between two events; phrases «take apart», «fall apart», «apart from», «tell apart» (see the difference), «far apart», «worlds apart»

### examples

- The two towns are 30 miles apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x1)
- Trees are planted 4 meters apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x2)
- Their birthdays are 3 days apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x3)
- The posts stand 2 feet apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x4)
- He took the clock apart to see inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x5)
- The old book fell apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x6)
- Apart from Sam, everyone came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x7)
- I can't tell the twins apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x8)
- Keep the magnets apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x9)
- The cousins live far apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x10)
- We are thirty sisters so exactly alike that our own father can hardly distinguish us apart.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/#x11)

### note

Gives a gap or a difference. Trap: with things in a row, the number of gaps is one less than the number of things. «Apart from» means except: «apart from 2» takes them out of the count.

### In the corpora

- [Elephants recognise old friends after years apart and greet them noisily with rumbles, ear flapping and trunk touches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/15/)
- [Pigeons are smarter than they look: they can tell people's faces apart and remember who chased them and who fed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/3/)
- [Pigeons can tell people apart by their faces, and in experiments they even learned to tell paintings by different artists apart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/11/)
- [Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice and voles it ate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/5/)
- [Millipedes have two pairs of legs on most body sections and centipedes have one pair, which is how you tell them apart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «apart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.