Dissect Definition

dĭ-sĕkt, dī-, dīsĕkt
dissected, dissecting, dissects
verb
dissected, dissecting, dissects
To cut apart piece by piece; separate into parts, as a body for purposes of study; anatomize.
Webster's New World
To examine or analyze closely.
Webster's New World

To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.

Wiktionary

(pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

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Origin of Dissect

  • Latin dissecāre dissect- to cut apart dis- dis- secāre to cut up sek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin dissecare (“to cut asunder, cut up”), from dis- (“asunder”) + secare (“to cut”); see section.

    From Wiktionary

Dissect Sentence Examples

  • Human sciences dissect everything to comprehend it, and kill everything to examine it.

  • When we come to dissect it, we find several striking characteristics.

  • Take your favorite flower and really dissect the color placement.

  • He at least claims to have been the first to dissect the procedure of the debate-game, and the larger claim may be and Aristotle who was inferior as a metaphysician to neither.

  • Particularly is this so as regards the question of authorship. As Harnack observes (Lukas der Arzt, p. 24), the" miraculous " or supernormal ele ment is hardly, if at all, less marked in the " we " sections, which are substantially the witness of a companion of Paul (and where efforts to dissect out the miracles are fruitless), than in the rest of the work.

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DDIDIS

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TCTECT

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Words Starting With D and Ending With T

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