dissect
verb/dɪˈsekt/, /daɪˈsekt/
/dɪˈsekt/, /daɪˈsekt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dissect | /dɪˈsekt/, /daɪˈsekt/ /dɪˈsekt/, /daɪˈsekt/ |
| he / she / it dissects | /dɪˈsekts/, /daɪˈsekts/ /dɪˈsekts/, /daɪˈsekts/ |
| past simple dissected | /dɪˈsektɪd/, /daɪˈsektɪd/ /dɪˈsektɪd/, /daɪˈsektɪd/ |
| past participle dissected | /dɪˈsektɪd/, /daɪˈsektɪd/ /dɪˈsektɪd/, /daɪˈsektɪd/ |
| -ing form dissecting | /dɪˈsektɪŋ/, /daɪˈsektɪŋ/ /dɪˈsektɪŋ/, /daɪˈsektɪŋ/ |
- dissect something to cut up a dead person, animal or plant in order to study it
- The biology students had to dissect a rat.
- dissecting instruments
- dissect something to study something closely and/or discuss it in great detail
- Her latest novel was dissected by the critics.
- dissect something to divide something into smaller pieces, areas, etc.
- The city is dissected by a network of old canals.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin dissect- ‘cut up’, from the verb dissecare, from dis- ‘apart’ + secare ‘to cut’.
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