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apart

/əˈpɑɹt/ adverb A2
  1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
  2. Separately, exclusively, not together. · Consider the two propositions apart.
  3. In or into two or more parts. · We took the computer apart and put it back together.
  4. To the side; aside.
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The whole of the second story was set apart for Maximilian; it was precisely similar to his sister’s apartments, except that for the breakfast-parlor he had a billiard-room, where he received his friends.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 503 · C1
Next moment I saw them spring apart and turn hurriedly round.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 108 · C1
And always, apart from the hound, there is the fact of the human agency in London, the man in the cab, and the letter which warned Sir Henry against the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 128 · C1
It was a cunning device, for, apart from the chance of driving your victim to his death, what peasant would venture to inquire too closely into such a creature should he get sight of it, as many have done, upon the moor?
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 201 · C1

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