0 present participle of detach --
1 to separate or remove something from something else that it is connected to: --
We thought that there was no longer any purpose in detaching staff for this work.
If we had had this automatic contrivance and detaching hook we might have saved these lives.
Instead of a polar ice cap we have large icebergs detaching themselves and starting off on courses which cannot be foreseen or known in advance.
The overwinding gear failed and the detaching hook failed as well.
I shall suggest another way of looking at the issue, detaching the political element from the criminal behaviour.
And every time one sees that the army has difficulty in really detaching itself and accepting the rule of law and democracy.
While the mechanisms of detaching biomolecules and separating surfaces have already been studied in great detail, much less work has been done on approaching surfaces or molecules.
The probability of a cell detaching was made proportional to the square of its height above the substratum.
