Crossword clues for disparate
disparate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disparate \Dis"pa*rate\, a. [L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.]
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Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them.
--Coleridge. (Logic) Pertaining to two co["o]rdinate species or divisions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous. 2 Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus. n. (context chiefly in the plural English) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
WordNet
adj. fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"
including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"
Usage examples of "disparate".
Nevertheless, though the reader moves bumpily along, he remains interested, never losing track of the disparate variety of characters and situations.
The shape of the footlocker was awkward and their disparate heights made it no easier.
Besides tracking content use and distribution, the DOI allows to seamlessly integrate hitherto disparate e-commerce technologies and facilitate interoperability among DRM systems.
In 1986 he had been sent to Peshawar to assist in the training of the disparate groups of mujahedin based in the Afghan refugee camps in the area.
The new development made him a literal multithreaded, multifocal intelligence, able to merge and part with disparate selves at a whim.
Caleb pointed to the screen as they all watched avians disintegrating in the air, their disparate parts leaving bloody trails as they dropped to the plains well before the spread of the settlement.
Leie no doubt wore her hair differently, carried distinct scars, and would acknowledge with a thousand disparate cues that she knew these people who were utter strangers to Maia.
Axis had worked tirelessly over the past five weeks and Sigholt had rapidly been turned from a slightly disorganised rebel base composed of disparate elements, into the seeds of a unified kingdom.
Like the homogeneity that follows when a collection of disparate metals is heated to a smooth molten liquid, the significant differences between the forces as we now observe them were all erased by the extremes of energy and temperature encountered in the very early universe.
Among the records found, then, it was learned that the Matrons, each commanding the equivalent of a modern city, had gathered to meld their disparate ambitions.
He knew without instruction that he desired a uniform hue, to mould those disparate spectators into a single, mighty, mindless entity, subject to his will.
Hence the Ring Collapsiter, first link in a network of supraluminal conduits that might finally join the disparate worlds together in a single moment.
He has to believe that one day his disparate black and white images of girls, graves, old men and townscapes will be juxtaposed in a book or an exhibition.
His hands were shaking and his mouth was dry and he could hear the disparate voices of the chancellors still in the chamber.
Remembering the tin of boot-polish in his pocket, he allowed his heart to leap in awe at the poetry which existence itself sometimes contrived: the fusion, or at least meaningful collocation, of disparates -- as, for example, a tin of tan boot-polish and himself, Enderby.