different between amiss vs apart

English

Etymology

From a- +? miss.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??m?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Adjective

amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)

1. (chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.

   He suspected something was amiss.

   Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

   • 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated:

     His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

   • 1836, Charles Joseph La Trobe, The Rambler in Mexico:

     Moreover, all were furnished with carbines and cartridge boxes, and the leader was armed with a sabre with a leather sheath. This was not so much amiss, and would do very well at a distance: but during the two hours' halt at the village aforesaid, I took it into my head, while the owners were enjoying their siesta under the shade of the gateway, just to stride in among them, and take a nearer inspection of the weapons.

   • 2009, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring :

     There is a strong feeling across the land that something is amiss in America. You sometimes hear about these feelings when people discuss their concerns about how the baby boom generation is going to bankrupt our social security or Medicare programs, or about the growing size of the national debt that will be paid for by future generations.

Derived terms

• dead amiss
• go amiss

Translations

Adverb

amiss (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Wrongly; mistakenly
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene ix^[1]:

     "The fire seven times tried this:

     Seven times tried that judgement is,

     That did never choose amiss.

     Some there be that shadows kiss:

     Such have but a shadow's bliss.

     There be fools alive, I wis,

     Silver'd o'er; and so was this.

     I will ever be your head:

     So be gone: you are sped."

   • 1899, The Laxdaela Saga (translated by Muriel A. C. Press) Chapter 44

     Then Hrefna said she would coif herself with it, and Thurid said she had better, and Hrefna did so. When Kalf saw that he gave her to understand that she had done amiss; and bade her take it off at her swiftest. "For that is the one thing that we, Kjartan and I, do not own in common."

2. Astray.
3. Imperfectly.

Noun

amiss (plural amisses)

1. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis […] .

   • 1635, John Donne, "His parting from her":

     Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss […] .

Further reading

• amiss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amiss in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Masis, Massi, Samis, Simas, Sisam, missa, saims, simas

English

Etymology

From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??(?)t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p??t/, enPR: ?-pärt?
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Adverb

apart (comparative more apart, superlative most apart)

1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
2. separately, exclusively, not together

3. Aside; away; not included.
4. In or into two or more parts.

Synonyms

• (in a state of separation): independently, separately; see also Thesaurus:individually
• (in or into two or more parts): asunder, in twain; see also Thesaurus:asunder

Antonyms

• together

Derived terms

Translations

Postposition

apart

1. (following its objective complement) Apart from.

Synonyms

• bar, except for; see also Thesaurus:except

Translations

Adjective

apart (not comparable)

1. (Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct.

2. Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.

Noun

apart

1. Misspelling of a part.

References

apart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• prata, rap at

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch apart, from Middle French a part.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?part/

Adjective

apart (attributive aparte, comparative aparter, superlative apartste)

1. separate

Derived terms

• apartheid

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French a part.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??p?rt/
• Hyphenation: apart
• Rhymes: -?rt

Adjective

apart (comparative aparter, superlative apartst)

1. separate

2. unusual

Inflection

Derived terms

• apartheid

Descendants

• Afrikaans: apart

Anagrams

• praat, raapt

German

Etymology

From French à part.

Pronunciation

Adjective

apart (comparative aparter, superlative am apartesten)

1. fancy, distinctive

Declension

Further reading

• “apart” in Duden online

Latvian

Etymology

From ap- +? art (“to plow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [apâ?t]

Verb

apart (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. aparu, apar, apar, past aparu)

1. (perfective) to till (land, field) by plowing

2. to overturn (an obstacle) while plowing; to overturn (an obstacle) and plow

3. to cover (e.g., planted potatoes) with earth by plowing around, by deepening the furrows; to furrow

4. (perfective) to plow around (to change direction around something while plowing; to plow the area around something)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (till land): uzart
• (plow around): art
• noart
• uzart