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'apart' - used as an adjective
1. remote and separate physically or socially
existed over the centuries as a world apart
preserved because they inhabited a place apart
2. not living together as man and wife
decided to live apart
3. having characteristics not shared by others
scientists felt they were a group apart

'apart' - used as a adverb
4. separated or at a distance in place or position or time
These towns are many miles apart
stood with his legs apart
born two years apart
5. not taken into account or excluded from consideration
these problems apart, the country is doing well
6. away from another or others
they grew apart over the years
kept apart from the group out of shyness
decided to live apart
7. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
had a feeling of being set apart
quality sets it apart
8. one from the other
people can't tell the twins apart
9. into parts or pieces
he took his father's watch apart
split apart
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