Disjoint Meaning
/dɪsˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot smooth or continuous; disjointed.
adjOf two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
Sentence Examples
The disjoint bones were painful to move.
The disjoint sentences were hard to read.
The two sets of data are completely disjoint from one another.
CEFR Practice Quiz
His argument seemed to ____ from the main topic completely.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ bones were painful to move.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English disjoynen, from Old French desjoindre (“disjoin”), from Latin disiungō, from dis- + iungō (“join”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Azure, a chevron disjoint or broken in the head or - BROKMALE. Per fesse gules and sable , a chevron rompu counterchanged - ALLEN, Sheriff of London"
— 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 109:
"Are there not Poiſons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords; / That Emma thus muſt die by Henry’s Words? / Yet what could Swords or Poiſon, Racks or Flame, / But mangle and disjoint this brittle Frame? / More fatal Henry’s Words; they murder Emma’s Fame."
— 1719, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma”, in Poems on Several Occasions, Dublin: J. Hyde, page 163:
"As over some half-ruined wall, / Disjointed and about to fall, / Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, / And keep the loosened stones in place."
— 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: George Routledge and Sons, published 1872, page 543:
"But let the frame of things dis-ioynt, / Both the Worlds ſuffer, / Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and ſleepe / In the affliction of theſe terrible Dreames, / That ſhake vs Nightly : Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue ſent to peace, / Then on the torture of the Minde to lye / In reſtleſſe extaſie."
— c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 140, column 2:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
His argument seemed to ____ from the main topic completely.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ bones were painful to move.