apart in WordNet English dictionary

1. not taken into account or excluded from consideration
   "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy"
   apart  aside  apart  aside 
   
2. into parts or pieces
   "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder"
   apart  asunder  apart  asunder 
   
3. separated or at a distance in place or position or time
   "These towns are many miles apart"; "stood with his legs apart"; "born two years apart"
   apart  apart 
   
4. one from the other
   "people can't tell the twins apart"
   apart  apart 
   
5. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
   "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing"
   aside  apart  aside  apart 
   
6. away from another or others
   "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart"
   apart  apart 
   

1. having characteristics not shared by others
   "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush
   apart 
   
2. remote and separate physically or socially
   "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village"
   apart  isolated  obscure