disengaging
present participle ofdisengage
| 单词 | disengaging |
| 释义 | disengaging present participle ofdisengage disengage verb formaluk/ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪdʒ/us/ˌdɪs.ɪŋˈɡeɪdʒ/[IorT] tobecomephysicallyseparatedfrom something, or to make two thingsbecomephysicallyseparated: Thedoorwas disengagedfromone ofitshinges. [T] toswitchoff thecontrolof something: Theautopilothad been disengaged. [T] If you disengage theclutchof acar, youstopthepowerproducedby theenginebeingconnectedto thewheels. [IorT] tostopbeinginvolvedin something, or tostopsomeone beinginvolvedin something: Theyrecognizedthat thecountrywouldreviveonly if itthoroughlydisengagedfromthechaosof theoldregime. Bothchildren, disengaging themselvesfromtheirgame, came to herside. Isolating and separating
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: On or off On the road: driving & operating road vehicles Abstaining and refraining Examplesofdisengagingdisengaging In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Antidepressant medications appear to have exerted ' bottom-up ' effects bydisengagingventral frontal and limbic regions. From theCambridge English Corpus Parent and child may play specific roles in engaging anddisengagingtheir joint coordinated attention. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, one could construct a developmental account that sees impairments in magnocellular function underpinning impairments indisengagingattention. From theCambridge English Corpus Disengaginga conversational exchange in the absence of a next turn-at-talk. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, it is found that talk, instead of silence, often followed successfuldisengagingturns. From theCambridge English Corpus Disengaginga conversational exchange at sequence boundary. From theCambridge English Corpus This is clear evidence that par ticipants themselves treat what they are doing asdisengagingfrom the prior topic, and as introducing a new and quite different topic. From theCambridge English Corpus Police agencies gain nothing and lose much by indignantlydisengagingfrom those they serve for fear of criticism and reprisal, formal or otherwise. From theCambridge English Corpus The second distinction is between skills of implicit and explicit reasoning: reasoning in context using all available beliefs versusdisengagingfrom implicit assumptions to reason only from explicit ones. From theCambridge English Corpus The second skill ofdisengagingfrom implicit contextual beliefs and attitudes, to reason only from explicit assumptions, as something that most students learn in late formal education. From theCambridge English Corpus However, other children may come to rely upon primarily avoidant strategies,disengagingattention from the threatening situation without attending to sources of relief and available coping options. From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, any hypothesis attributing these deficits to impairments indisengagingattention needs to be able to account for why deficits are especially marked for social stimuli. From theCambridge English Corpus A democratic solution means more thandisengagingand letting the parties fight it out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That is where our strength lies; not in baling out anddisengagingourselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 How are we to go about the difficult, complicated and potentially expensive business ofdisengagingthe military from the civilian sectors? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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