DISSECT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Dissect

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/daɪsˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

Dissect v. t. (past & past part. dissected; pres. part. dissecting)

(Anat.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely. "This paragraph... I have dissected for a sample."

See images of 'Dissect'

Etymology of 'Dissect'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Dissect" Quotes from Famous Books

... only one solution that will enable us to retain the larger of the two pieces with as little as possible cut from it. Fig. 1 in the following diagram shows how the smaller piece is to be cut, and Fig. 2 how we should dissect the larger piece, while in Fig. 3 we have the new square 10 x 10 formed by the four pieces with all the chequers properly matched. It will be seen that the piece D contains fifty-two chequers, and this is the largest piece that it is ...

— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... are imminent to us always. There are many things not yet pigeonholed by our science nor catalogued by our philosophies. You can dissect a daisy and enumerate its parts; but you never know a daisy until you have seen the unseen things thereof, until you have felt the subtle appeal of its beauty. Bobbie Burns saw more of the daisy than the greatest botanist ...

— Levels of Living - Essays on Everyday Ideals • Henry Frederick Cope

... Thoughts, I have been forced to relinquish that Opinion, and have therefore endeavoured to seek after some better Reason. In order to it, a Friend of mine, who is an excellent Anatomist, has promised me by the first Opportunity to dissect a Woman's Tongue, and to examine whether there may not be in it certain Juices which render it so wonderfully voluble [or [3]] flippant, or whether the Fibres of it may not be made up of a finer or more pliant Thread, or whether there are not in it some particular Muscles ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... ever-changing light of the open fire; the long, wavering shadows within the cabin; and, without, the banshee wailing of the storm wind around the eaves, the occasional crash of thunder, the creaking of limbs and fitful dashes of rain. He found himself leaning back in his chair and mentally attempting to dissect and study not the bodies, but the personalities, of the three who were the representatives of a type, in manners and customs at ...

— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson

... announced this determination in a forcible speech[93] to his own countrymen, in which he said, "When the Treaty comes back, gentlemen on this side will find the Covenant not only in it, but so many threads of the Treaty tied to the Covenant that you cannot dissect the Covenant from the Treaty without destroying the whole vital structure." This scheme was denounced by Mr. Wilson's opponents as a trick, but the historian will remember it as a maneuver, which, however blameless or meritorious its motive, was fraught ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

More quotes...