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What's The Definition Of Separate?
[n] a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
[n] a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication [adj] standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" [adj] individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child" [adj] have the connection undone; having become separate [adj] separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" [adj] independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" [adj] characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [adj] not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated" [v] divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [v] become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" [v] mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [v] arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [v] separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [v] divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" [v] force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [v] come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" [v] go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [v] make a division or separation [v] discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [v] treat differently on the basis of sex or race [v] act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" Synonyms | Synonyms for Separate: abstracted | apart(p) | assort | asunder(p) | branch | break | break | break up | carve up | class | classify | come apart | detached | differentiate | discrete | discriminate | disjoined | disjoint | disjunct | dissever | distinct | distinguish | disunite | divide | divide | divide | divide | fall apart | fork | freestanding | furcate | individual | isolable | isolated | offprint | part | part | part | ramify | removed | reprint | secern | secernate | segregated | separated | set-apart | severalise | severalize | single out | single(a) | sort | sort out | split | split | split up | split up | tell | tell apart | unconnected | unintegrated Related Terms | Find terms related to Separate: See Also | arborise | arborize | article | avulse | Balkanise | Balkanize | bifurcate | branch out | break | break | break apart | break away | break away | break down | break down | break off | break open | break up | break up | break up | break with | broaden | burst | bust | bust | calve | canton | card | catalog | catalogue | categorise | categorize | change | change integrity | change integrity | change integrity | chip | chip off | close off | come away | come off | compare | compartmentalise | compartmentalize | contradistinguish | contrast | count | crack | crush | cut | cut up | decompose | decompose | demarcate | detach | detach | dialyse | dialyze | dichotomise | dichotomize | differentiate | diffract | disadvantage | disarticulate | disassociate | disconnect | discriminate | disfavor | disfavour | disjoin | disjoint | disjoint | dismember | dispel | disperse | displace | dissipate | dissociate | dissociate | distinguish | disunify | disunite | diverge | diversify | divided | divorce | extract | filter | filter out | filtrate | format | fractionate | fragment | fragmentise | fragmentize | garment | gerrymander | gin | grade | group | hive off | identify | independent | individualise | individualize | initialise | initialize | insulate | isolate | isolate | isolate | keep apart | know | know apart | label | ladder | lot | macerate | move | move | number | other | paragraph | parcel | partition | partition | partition off | peptise | peptize | pigeonhole | place | polarise | polarize | puncture | rail | rail off | reclassify | redline | reduce | refer | run | rupture | scatter | secede | secern | secernate | section | sectionalise | sectionalize | segment | segregate | segregate | separate | separate | separate | separate out | sequester | sequestrate | set apart | sever | severalise | severalize | sex | shut off | sieve | sift | single out | size | sliver | snap | snap | splinter | split | spread out | stamp | stereotype | strain | stratify | subdivide | subdivide | take apart | tear | tease | tell | tell apart | triangulate | trifurcate | twig | unitise | unitise | unitize | unitize | unshared | wash | zone Separate In Webster's Dictionary \Sep"a*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Separated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Separating}.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to
separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare.
See {Parade}, and cf. {Sever}.]
1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part
in any manner.
From the fine gold I separate the alloy. --Dryden.
Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. --Gen. xiii.
9.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
--Rom. viii.
35.
2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space
between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea
separates Europe and Africa.
3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a
special use or service.
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
I have called thaem. --Acts xiii.
2.
{Separated flowers} (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and
pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. --Gray.
\Sep"a*rate\, v. i. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated. \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ] 1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen. xlix. 26. 2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. --Heb. vii. 26. 3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls. {Separate estate} (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent of her husband. {Separate maintenance} (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation. -- {Sep"a*rate*ly}, adv. -- {Sep"a*rate*ness}, n. |
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