apart vs together
Definitions
adverb
- one from the other
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- away from another or others
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- into parts or pieces
adjective
- remote and separate physically or socially
- having characteristics not shared by others
Examples
Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together.
Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions.
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Definitions
adverb
- in contact with each other or in proximity
- at the same time
- in each other's company
- with cooperation and interchange
- assembled in one place
adjective
- mentally and emotionally stable
Examples
Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy.
Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together.
We spent a lot of time together, well over two months, and so we really got to know each other.
