All 5 Uses
detach
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Svyadov climbed an aluminum ladder affixed to the side of the reactor vessel to run the detachable probe from his counter over every welded pipe joint.†
Chpt 7.detachable = able to be separated (from something else)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- As an appellate court judge he had never had to look a defendant in the eye; he'd just reviewed the law in a detached way.†
Chpt 8. *detached = separated OR emotionally uninvolved (separated from emotions)
- The American escorts, which had been detached the previous day, were now sailing to rendezvous with the USS New Jersey.†
Chpt 13.
- "Reactor accident," Ames said, his voice detached and clinical.†
Chpt 13.
- "I do not claim that this story is true, nor do I claim it is even a likely one at this point," Gerasimov said, keeping his voice detached and clinical, "but there is sufficient circumstantial evidence supporting it that I must recommend an in-depth investigation by the Committee for State Security touching on all aspects of this affair."†
Chpt 15.
Definitions:
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(1)
(detach) to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)