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Definition of Keep apart
1. Verb. Set apart from others. "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
Generic synonyms: Disunite, Divide, Part, Separate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep Apart
Literary usage of Keep apart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"To the latter product add the number 6-6075, and keep apart this partial result,
which expresses, in one number, what proceeds from all the operations ..."
2. The Two Chiefs of Dunboy: Or an Irish Romance of the Last Century by James Anthony Froude (1889)
"... the difference in race, in character and in creed, continued to keep apart
the Cornish Calvinist and the Catholic of Cork and Kerry. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... we know far more than the interdependence supposed by Mach and Kirch- boff;
we know bodies with impenetrable force causing one another to keep apart. ..."
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