| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To disconnect, uncouple, detach or unhitch.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To launch or start. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To unleash or unloose. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To unlatch, unfasten or unhook. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To stop, check or stem.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb disengage.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (disengage) | 1. Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears".[Wordnet]. 2. Free or remove obstruction from.[Wordnet]. 3. Become free; "in neutral, the gears disengage".[Wordnet]. 4. To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.[Websters]. 5. To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: disengaging, disengaged, disengages, disengager, disengagers, disengagingly and disengagedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Loosing; setting free; detaching.[Websters]
2. Being redeeming. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being retiring. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being ascending or refreshing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being decreasing, dwindling or diminishing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being stimulating or rousing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DISENGAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISENGAGING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Separating; loosing; setting free; detaching; liberating; releasing from obligation.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of disengage. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DISENGAGING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Disengaging gear | Food & Agriculture | In the context of life boats or auxiliary boats, it is an apparatus for use in conjunction with the tackles or falls. It consists of a hand-controlled gear within reach of the person in charge of the boat. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Disengaging shaft | Mechanical Engineering | A shaft, usually having limited rotary motion, whose function is to engage and disengage a coupling or a gear wheel. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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| Disengage the Simulator | 2 | Disengage the Simulator | 2 | |
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