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Examples of detach
detach
When you detach, you understand that she is who she is and you can't change her.
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Typists can pull on the keyboard to detach it from the base for greater comfort.
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When you see a friendly or enemy turret, you can detach it and take it with you.
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They detach and rise to the surface, getting larger at an ever increasing speed.
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All of these problems can cause the drop-side to detach in one or more corners.
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Another lost power and started to drift, threatening to detach from the wellhead.
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To reach the cells behind the retina, we have to detach the retina using a probe.
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After a full year, it should be rooted and ready to detach from the mother plant.
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The easy mortgage boom allowed house prices to detach themselves from earnings.
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- Cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"
- Separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"
- Come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
- (detached) degage: showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander"
- (detached) being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
- (detached) no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
- (detached) used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage"
- A detachment (from the French du00E9tachement) is a military unit. It can either be detached from a larger unit for a specific function or (particularly in United States Military usage) be a permanent unit smaller than a battalion. The term is often used to refer to a unit that is assigned to a different base from the parent unit.
- To take apart from; to take off
