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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disconnect
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
phone
▪ Or communication blackouts with families with disconnected phones.
▪ When they had returned home they had disconnected the phone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Disconnect the battery and recharge it.
▪ I'll have to call him back - we got disconnected.
▪ I tried to call the company, but the phone number had been disconnected.
▪ Once a car has started, the engine would continue to run even if you disconnected the battery.
▪ Salazar's family agreed to disconnect the life support system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fortunately, many types of pump can be restarted without having to be disconnected and dismantled.
▪ Hauserman said people are disconnecting or ignoring the devices.
▪ Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record?
▪ The cell phone that allows you to connect, makes it impossible to disconnect.
▪ To operate, always fill the water tank while the machine is disconnected from the mains socket.
▪ Unlike other memory chips, flash does not lose the stored contents when the computer is disconnected from a power supply.
▪ We exhort you to disconnect, discard and move on, acquire a certain agility as consumers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disconnect

Disconnect \Dis`con*nect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disconnected; p. pr. & vb. n. Disconnecting.] To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality.
--Burke.

This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals.
--Walsh.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disconnect

1770; see dis- + connect. Perhaps a back-formation from disconnection. Related: Disconnected; disconnecting.

Wiktionary
disconnect

n. 1 A break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process; disconnection. 2 A switch used to isolate a portion of an electrical circuit. 3 A lack of connection or accord; a mismatch. 4 (context Scientology English) The deliberate severing of ties with family, friends, etc. considered antagonistic towards Scientology. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To sever or interrupt a connection. 2 (context intransitive English) Of a person, to become detached or withdrawn. 3 (context transitive English) To remove the connection between an appliance and an electrical power source.

WordNet
disconnect
  1. n. an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy" [syn: gulf, disconnection]

  2. v. of electrical appliances [syn: unplug] [ant: plug in]

  3. make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten [ant: connect]

Wikipedia
Disconnect (Prison Break)

"Disconnect" is the thirty-fourth episode of the American television series Prison Break and is the twelfth episode of its second season. Aired on November 20, 2006, it was also one of the episodes that were aired during the 2006 sweeps in the United States. The episode is written by Nick Santora & Karyn Usher, and directed by Karen Gaviola.

Both Marshall Allman (who plays L. J. Burrows) and Robert Knepper (who plays Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell) did not appear in this episode but a flashback of T-Bag from the previous episode was used. The events in this episode directly follows that of the previous episode, which takes place on June 4.

Disconnect (album)

Disconnect is the debut album by electropop group Iris, released in 2000. This album helped Iris win "Best Band" and "Best Album" awards at the American Synthpop Awards in 2000. Its single, " Annie, Would I Lie To You?" was one of the best-selling records in label A Different Drum’s history.

Disconnect (film)

Disconnect is a 2012 American drama film directed by Henry Alex Rubin and stars an ensemble cast, which includes Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Andrea Riseborough, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Alexander Skarsgård, Max Thieriot and fashion designer Marc Jacobs in his debut acting role. The film explores how people experience the negative sides of modern communication technology by following three interconnecting stories.

Disconnect (JES album)

Disconnect is the first solo album by Jes Brieden (professionally known as JES), and was released on April 7, 2007. A remix album, Into the Dawn (The Hits Disconnected) was released the next year, featuring remixes for songs on Disconnect, along with several new songs.

Usage examples of "disconnect".

The disgraced Prime Designate brought three times as many guard kithmen with him as the Adar could possibly have hoped to fight off, especially now that he felt disconnected from the strong foundation of thism.

Which is to say that the forces at work seem ever more impersonal, more disconnected from individual human activity, more autonomous.

Recently I read yet another article on Karen Quinlan, the New Jersey woman who was comatose for months and whose parents finally received court permission to order the doctors to disconnect her from the machines that were keeping her body going.

Alfred, less confident, disconnected Trina long enough for both to rise, then accepted her again about his hips, but not before his wet erection had been exposed to all.

The unfortunate and benighted Greek was chanting a disconnected and mad song, composed from snatches of hymns and sacred odes, all jarringly woven together.

The green grass grows through the carpets of the Oval Room, the Hot Line is disconnected for nonpayment of the bill.

Long ago, when they had first come here, Obie had contacted the master computer and then found himself unable to disconnect.

Just as, in the Pickover book which Gus had read in childhood, five disconnected blobs appearing on the surface of a Flatland balloon might really be fingerprints from a single, otherworldly hand.

You are about to disconnect from all Rhadamanthine systems and support.

He asked the question aloud before he remembered that he was disconnected from the Rhadamanthine system.

This would be equally true whether the ridges were connected with one of the type lines, both type lines, or disconnected altogether.

The lo adie took one look at the bloodied windows, disconnected the intercom lead from his helmet and sprinted toward the front of the heli.

The machine beeped again, flashed a warning, and she made a face and reached to disconnect it from the hotel systems.

It was like watching a nest of snakes, so much movement, disconnected in the candlelit dark, as if each limb were something separate and alive without the body.

Baudelio had already disconnected his exterior equipment from The Evening News 291 the three caskets, after making sure their occupants were still deeply sedated and would not stir for an hour or more if left unattended.