N. disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection,
abstraction,
abstractedness,
isolation,
insularity,
insulation,
oasis, island, separateness,
severalty, disjecta membra,
dispersion,
apportionment, separation, parting,
circumcision,
detachment,
segregation,
divorce, sejunction|, seposition|,
diduction,
diremption,
discerption,
elision,
caesura, break, fracture, division,
subdivision, rupture, compartition |, dismemberment,
dislocation,
luxation,
severance,
disseverance,
scission,
rescission,
abscission,
laceration,
dilaceration,
disruption,
abruption,
avulsion,
divulsion, section, resection,
cleavage,
fission,
partibility,
separability,
fissure, breach, rent, split,
rift,
crack,
slit,
incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument,
buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw,
separatist V. be disjoined &c, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect,
disengage, disunite,
dissociate, dispair,
divorce, part, dispart,
detach, separate, cut off,
rescind,
segregate, set apart, keep apart,
insulate,
isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose,
undo, unbind, unchain,
unlock,
unpack,
unravel,
disentangle, set free,
sunder, divide,
subdivide,
sever,
dissever,
abscind,
circumcise, cut, incide|,
incise, saw,
snip,
nib,
nip,
cleave,
rive,
rend,
slit, split,
splinter,
chip,
crack,
snap, break,
tear,
burst, rend &c. rend asunder, rend in twain,
wrench, rupture,
shatter,
shiver,
cranch,
crunch,
craunch,
chop, cut up, rip up,
hack,
hew,
slash,
whittle,
haggle,
hackle, discind|,
lacerate,
scamble,
mangle,
gash,
hash,
slice, cut up,
carve, dissect,
anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb,
divellicate, skin,
disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband,
disperse,
dislocate, disjoint, break up,
mince,
comminute,
apportion, part, part company, separate, leave
Adj. disjoined, discontinuous,
multipartite, abstract,
disjunctive,
secant, isolated,
insular, separate,
disparate,
discrete, apart,
asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct,
adrift,
straggling,
rift,
reft,
scissile,
divisible,
discerptible, partible,
separable Part Roget’s Thesaurus §51 N. part, portion,
dose,
item, particular,
aught, any, division, ward,
subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count,
paragraph, verse, article, passage,
sector, segment, fraction, fragment,
cantle,
frustum,
detachment,
parcel, piece,
lump, bit cut, cutting,
chip,
chunk,
collop,
slice, scale,
lamina, small part,
morsel, particle,
installment,
dividend, share,
debris, odds and ends, oddments,
detritus, excerpta, member, limb,
lobe,
lobule, arm, wing,
scion, branch,
bough, joint, link,
offshoot,
ramification,
twig,
bush,
spray,
sprig,
runner, leaf,
leaflet,
stump, component part, sarmentum,
compartment, department, county
V. part, divide, break, partition
Adv. partly, in part, partially,
piecemeal, part by part, by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots
Layer Roget’s Thesaurus §204 N. layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone,
substratum,
substrata, floor, flag, stage, story,
tier,
slab,
escarpment, table,
tablet, dess,
flagstone, board,
plank,
trencher,
platter, plate,
lamina,
lamella, sheet,
foil,
wafer, scale,
flake,
peel, coat,
pellicle, membrane,
film, leaf,
slice,
shive, cut,
rasher,
shaving,
integument,
eschar,
stratification,
scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer
Adj. lamellar,
lamellated,
lamelliform, layered,
laminated,
laminiferous,
micaceous,
schistose,
schistous,
scaly,
filmy,
membranous,
pellicular,
flaky,
squamous,
foliated,
foliaceous,
stratified,
stratiform,
tabular,
discoid,
spathic,
spathose, trilamellar,
graphitic