apart
part of speech
adverb (apart)
meaning for a pupil
1) Apart means away from each other, with space between. tree →
2) Apart means into pieces: «it fell apart». tree →
3) «Apart from» means except, not counting. tree →
4) Apart means separate, alone: «He stood apart». tree →
5) Apart can be used with "tell" or "distinguish" to mean to see the difference between things: can you tell the twins apart? tree →
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 →
- Trees are planted 4 meters apart. tree →
- Their birthdays are 3 days apart. tree →
- The posts stand 2 feet apart. tree →
- He took the clock apart to see inside. tree →
- The old book fell apart. tree →
- Apart from Sam, everyone came. tree →
- I can't tell the twins apart. tree →
- Keep the magnets apart. tree →
- The cousins live far apart. tree →
- We are thirty sisters so exactly alike that our own father can hardly distinguish us apart.’ tree →
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.
- Pigeons are smarter than they look: they can tell people's faces apart and remember who chased them and who fed them.
- Pigeons can tell people apart by their faces, and in experiments they even learned to tell paintings by different artists apart.
- Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice and voles it ate.
- Millipedes have two pairs of legs on most body sections and centipedes have one pair, which is how you tell them apart.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «apart» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.