Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Separated; disconnected.
- adjective Standing apart from others; separate.
- adjective Marked by an absence of emotional involvement or personal interest; aloof or unbiased.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disjoined or dissociated; not united or not contiguous; being or becoming separate; unattached: as, detached rocks or portions of rock; a detached house; detached bodies of troops.
- Of a separate character; belonging to a detached person or body: chiefly military: as, to be employed on detached service or duty; a detached mission.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected.
- adjective See
Escapement .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a
house : notjoined to another house on either side. - adjective Having little or no
emotions orinterest towards someone else. - adjective Not
influenced by anyone else; characterized by animpersonal objectivity ;impartial . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
detach .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not fixed in position
- adjective no longer connected or joined
- adjective used of buildings; standing apart from others
- adjective being or feeling set or kept apart from others
- adjective showing lack of emotional involvement
- adjective lacking affection or warm feeling
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Examples
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The autopsy that was performed when (oh, god, to write such words and remain detached is beyond my ability) his body was recovered was inconclusive.
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Arriving at this conclusion, she put the chest and its contents back again on the shelf -- with the one exception of the label detached from the blue-glass bottle.
Jezebel's Daughter Wilkie Collins 1856
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Up next, it's our question of the hour: Should Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff lose his job after a report blasts what it calls his detached response to Hurricane Katrina?
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But they look increasingly detached from the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.
Azeem Ibrahim: Negotiations With the Taliban Point to the Need to Leave Afghanistan Azeem Ibrahim 2010
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When it was returned to me after the second renewal, the center two pages had become detached from the staples holding the book together when it was in the possession of the immigration office.
FM 3 Renwal 2009
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While her stories 'from the field' were interesting the class and subject was still horribly boring and almost totally detached from the real world.
Academia vs. Reality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"He was a cog in a machine and his guilt cannot be detached from the whole system."
Rogue French Trader Sentenced to 3 Years David Gauthier-Villars 2010
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When it was returned to me after the second renewal, the center two pages had become detached from the staples holding the book together when it was in the possession of the immigration office.
FM 3 Renwal 2009
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this week that most Americans have grown too detached from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and see military service as "something for other people to do."
Torrey Shannon: Cleaning for Heroes -- A Clean Home for Every Veteran Torrey Shannon 2010
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this week that most Americans have grown too detached from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and see military service as "something for other people to do."
Torrey Shannon: Cleaning for Heroes -- A Clean Home for Every Veteran Torrey Shannon 2010
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