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/sˈɛpərˌeɪt/ /sˈɛpərɪt/ /sˈɛprət/ Listen

Separate

adjective

1.

Independent; not united or joint. "They went their separate ways" , "Formed a separate church" Antonym: joint.

2.

Standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything. Synonym: freestanding. "A house with a separate garage"

3.

Separated according to race, sex, class, or religion. "Girls and boys in separate classes"

4.

Have the connection undone; having become separate. Synonym: disjoined.

verb

(past & past part. separated; pres. part. separating)

1.

Act as a barrier between; stand between. Synonym: divide.

2.

Force, take, or pull apart. Synonyms: disunite, divide, part. "Moses parted the Red Sea"

3.

Mark as different. Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart.

4.

Separate into parts or portions. Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up. "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" Antonym: unite.

5.

Divide into components or constituents.

6.

Arrange or order by classes or categories. Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out.

7.

Make a division or separation. Synonym: divide.

8.

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways. Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up. "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" , "My friend and I split up"

9.

Go one's own way; move apart. Synonyms: part, split.

10.

Become separated into pieces or fragments. Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up. "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"

11.

Treat differently on the basis of sex or race. Synonyms: discriminate, single out.

12.

Come apart. Synonyms: divide, part.

13.

Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork. Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify.

noun

1.

A separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication. Synonyms: offprint, reprint.

2.

A garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments.

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"Separate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Winkle brothers started out rather late in life to make men of themselves. Inasmuch as they elected to start in separate and distinct grooves and as their courses were not what you might call parallel, we are likely to gain time and satisfaction by taking them up one at a time. We must not lose sight of the fact that they set out to acquire three separate and ...

— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon

... deer as well as birds in plenty—and some to explore. Leif made a rule that no more than half his party should be away at one time, and that none should wander so far as that he could not win back by nightfall, nor separate himself from hail of the others who were with him. So the time wore on and the seasons changed. A mellow autumn gave way to a mild winter in which came no iron frost, and very little snow. If they had had cattle with them, ...

— Gudrid the Fair - A Tale of the Discovery of America • Maurice Hewlett

... grow I know sweeter every year, but it is too big ever to be perfect and to get to look so immaculate that the diseased imagination conjures up visions of housemaids issuing forth each morning in troops and dusting every separate flower with feather brushes. Nature herself is untidy, and in a garden she ought to come first, and Art with her brooms and clipping-shears follow humbly behind. Art has such a good time in the house, where she ...

— The Solitary Summer • Elizabeth von Arnim

... truth. She communicates so many things which actually happened that it reads like a 'special correspondent' in some country town writing for a Sunday morning's paper,—and with, to a moral certainty, the word 'separate' lurking somewhere spelt with three E's, and an 'always' with two L's, and at least one 'alright.' No, my dear, I am at present too busy expressing my adoration for you to be exposed to such ...

— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al

... had been taught to build stone houses, they took separate ways. My people were the Snake people. They lived in snake skins, each family occupying a separate snake skin bag. All were hung on the end of a rainbow which swung around until the end touched Navajo ...

— Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest • Katharine Berry Judson

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