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dispart

VT แยก 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISPART

v.t.[dis and part. L. See Part. Dis and part both imply separation. ] To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to burst; to rend; to rive or split; as disparted air; disparted towers; disparted chaos. [An elegant poetic word. ]

 

DISPART

v.i.To separate; to open; to cleave.

 

DISPART

n.In gunnery, the thickness of the metal of a piece of ordnance at the mouth and britch.

 

DISPART

v.t.In gunnery, to set a mark on the muzzle-ring of a piece of ordnance, so that a sight-line from the top of the base-ring to the mark on or near the muzzle may be parallel to the axis of the bore or hollow cylinder.

 

DISPARTED

pp. Divided; separated; parted; rent asunder.

 

DISPARTING

ppr. Severing; dividing; bursting; cleaving.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DISPART

Dis *part ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disparted; p. pr. & vb. n.Disparting. ] Etym: [Pref. dis- + part: cf. OF. despartir.]

 

Defn: To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. [Archaic ] Them in twelve troops their captain did dispart. Spenser. The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted. Emerson.

 

DISPART

DISPART Dis *part ", v. i.

 

Defn: To separate, to open; to cleave.

 

DISPART

DISPART Dis *part ", n.

 

1. (Gun. )

 

Defn: The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance. On account of the dispart, the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis. Eng. Cys.

 

2. (Gun. )

 

Defn: A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.

 

DISPART

DISPART Dis *part ", v. t.

 

1. (Gun. )

 

Defn: To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun ), when taking aim. Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. Lucar.

 

2. (Gun. )

 

Defn: To furnish with a dispart sight.