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apartar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • avert verb To prevent something bad from happening.
  • earmark noun A mark made or tag attached to the ear of an animal (chiefly a livestock animal), generally to identify or indicate something about the animal, such as ownership, health or gestation status, etc.
  • part noun A piece or portion of something larger.
  • separate verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.

Senses

apartar is used for these senses in English:

  • avert (transitive) To turn aside or away.
  • earmark To designate or set aside (someone or something) for a particular purpose; to allocate.
  • part (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
  • part To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
  • separate (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
  • separate (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.

avert — full definition

  1. verb To prevent something bad from happening.
  2. verb To turn one's eyes or attention away from something.

earmark — full definition

  1. noun A mark made or tag attached to the ear of an animal (chiefly a livestock animal), generally to identify or indicate something about the animal, such as ownership, health or gestation status, etc.
  2. noun A distinguishing or identifying mark or sign; specifically (archaic), a mark of ownership.
  3. noun An act of designating certain funds to be used for a specific purpose.
  4. noun Specifically, a designation by the Congress that certain federal funds be appropriated for a specific project.

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