Things that are separate are kept apart from other things. A married couple heading for divorce might eat breakfast at separate tables.
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
Noun
a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
Noun
a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
Verb
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
Verb
become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
Verb
mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
Verb
arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
Verb
divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
Verb
force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
Verb
come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
Verb
go one''s own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
Verb
make a division or separation
Verb
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"
Verb
separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
Verb
treat differently on the basis of sex or race
Verb
act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
Adjective S.
standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
Adjective S.
individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child"
Adjective S.
have the connection undone; having become separate
Adjective S.
separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
Adjective
independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
Adjective S.
characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed"
Adjective S.
not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"
v. t.
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to
part in any manner.
v. t.
To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space
between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and
Africa.
v. t.
To set apart; to select from among others, as for a
special use or service.
v. i.
To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to
withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
p. a.
Divided from another or others; disjoined;
disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
p. a.
Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; --
said of things that have not been connected.
p. a.
Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate
spirit; the separate state of souls.
Separate
From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?2.
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem.
Separate
Separate
Him that was separate from his brethren.2.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere.3.
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another;
Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
Usage Examples
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
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Other Usage ExamplesBefore the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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