Definition of "disconnect" []

• To sever or interrupt the connection of or between: disconnected the hose. (verb-transitive)
• Electricity To shut off the current in (an appliance) by removing its connection to a power source. (verb-transitive)
• To sever or interrupt a connection. (verb-intransitive)
• A lack of connection; a disparity: "There is a cosmic disconnect between what the voters want and what the party of the corporate interests can give them” ( Bob Herbert). (noun)

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• "The latest evidence for this disconnect is the headlines about Barack Obama signing a "new deal" with his publisher, Crown, shortly before taking office."
• "Bill Maher laid into the tea party movement and the American people for what he described as their disconnect from the reality of the nation's finances."
• "Bill Maher laid into the tea party movement and the American people for what he described as their disconnect from the reality of the nation's ..."