different between dispart vs violate

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.

Verb

dispart (third-person singular simple present disparts, present participle disparting, simple past and past participle disparted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To part, separate.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

     The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.

Etymology 2

Noun

dispart (plural disparts)

1. The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
   • 1854-1862, Charles Knight, "DISPART", in English Cyclopaedia

     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.

2. 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.

Verb

dispart (third-person singular simple present disparts, present participle disparting, simple past and past participle disparted)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a dispart sight.
2. (transitive) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
   • 1583, Richard Lucars, Arte of Shooting

     Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.

English

Etymology

From Latin violatus, past participle of violare (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”), from vis (“strength, power, force, violence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va???le?t/

Verb

violate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)

1. (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

   Antonyms: comply, obey

2. (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
3. (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
   • 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)

     If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison.

   • 2014, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (page 165)

     Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.

Related terms

• violation

Derived terms

• violable
• violative

Translations

Further reading

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

Italian

Verb

violate

1. second-person plural present of violare
2. second-person plural imperative of violare
3. feminine plural past participle of violare

Anagrams

• evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate

Latin

Verb

viol?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of viol?