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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disconnected
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ That washing machine doesn't work. It's been disconnected.
▪ The plot is disconnected and unbelievable.
▪ When the power was disconnected, he carefully removed the back of the computer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments, which don't really say much.
▪ Is knowledge lost from memory or does it change, becoming vague and imprecise, or distorted, or disconnected and fragmented?
▪ It's easier, though, to remember a meaningful sentence or phrase of six words than to remember six disconnected words.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
disconnected

disconnected \disconnected\ adj.

  1. marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds.

    Syn: abrupt, broken off(predicate).

  2. not switched on or not connected to a power source; -- of electrical equipment. [Narrower terms: off-line (vs. on-line), offline, off line(predicate); unplugged]

    Syn: not ready, off.

  3. noncontinuous; not continuing in time or space. Opposite of continuous.

    Syn: disrupted, discontinuous.

  4. unconnected, detached. Opposite of connected.

    Syn: disjoined, separate.

  5. lacking orderly continuity; illogical or seemingly irrational; as, disconnected fragments of a story.

    Syn: confused, disjointed, disordered, disorganized, desultory, garbled, illogical, rambling, scattered, unconnected.

Wiktionary
disconnected
  1. 1 That is no longer connected. 2 Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something. 3 (context mathematics of a topological space English) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed. v

  2. (en-past of: disconnect)

WordNet
disconnected
  1. adj. marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; "staccato applause"; "a staccato command"; "staccato notes" [syn: staccato] [ant: legato]

  2. having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" [syn: disunited, fragmented, split]

  3. marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions; "abrupt prose" [syn: abrupt]

  4. not plugged in or connected to a power source; "the iron is disconnected"

  5. lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected]

Wikipedia
Disconnected (Funkstörung album)

Disconnected is a studio album by the German IDM group Funkstörung. It was released on !K7 Records in 2004.

Disconnected (Fates Warning album)

Disconnected is the ninth album by the progressive metal group Fates Warning, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music). Kevin Moore previously played on the Fates Warning album A Pleasant Shade of Gray and later appeared in OSI with Matheos.

This album was re-released in Germany in 2006 as part of a 2-CD set with the album Inside Out (Fates Warning album) featuring bonus tracks

Disconnected (Beat Union album)

Disconnected is the debut album of the band Beat Union. It is produced by John Feldmann, producer and frontman of Goldfinger.

Disconnected (Face to Face song)

"Disconnected" is a song by the American punk rock band Face to Face, written by singer/ guitarist Trever Keith and bassist Matt Riddle. It first appeared on their 1992 debut album Don't Turn Away and was released as a 7" single in 1993 on the independent record label Fat Wreck Chords. A remixed version appeared on the Over It EP in 1994 after the band had signed to Victory Music. This version received radio airplay, leading the label to request that the band re-record "Disconnected" for their second album Big Choice (1995). This third version of the song was made into a music video and reached #39 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1995.

Disconnected (The Buzzhorn album)

Disconnected, released in 2002, is the first album released by the band The Buzzhorn on a major label. "Ordinary" was the lead single from this album. It appeared in the soundtrack for the EA game: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

- EA game: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 gameplay added the Instrumental version of "Ordinary" added to be played with the original version.

Disconnected (Keane song)

"Disconnected" is a song by English alternative rock band Keane from their fourth studio album Strangeland. It was released as the album's second single on 27 April 2012 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The band played the song for first time during the Night Train Tour in 2010. It was released officially, worldwide, on 8 October 2012.

Disconnected (Faust/Nurse with Wound album)

Disconnected is a 2007 collaboration album between the German krautrock group Faust and Nurse with Wound .

Disconnected (Greymachine album)

Disconnected is the debut album by experimental music act Greymachine, featuring Justin Broadrick, Aaron Turner, Dave Cochrane and Diarmuid Dalton. Produced by Broadrick, it was released on 4 August 2009 via Turner's own record label, Hydra Head Records.

The track " Vultures Descend" was released as a limited edition promotional single on 12 May 2009.

Disconnected (Stiv Bators album)

Disconnected is the debut solo studio album by Stiv Bators, released in 1980 by record label Bomp!.

Usage examples of "disconnected".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

His comments were random and disconnected, and he drank more wine than usual.

When investigators examined her VW, still parked at the library with newly checked-out books on the front seat, they found it had been tampered with, a wire to the distributor disconnected among other actions.

He disconnected it from the keychain and held it right up next to his black box.

She had always thought of sex in a disconnected way because penises seemed like something added on, with a separate existencerather comic and bulgy tassels one minute, and the next minute terrible truncheons.