SEPARATE

freestanding, separate

(adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; “a freestanding bell tower”; “a house with a separate garage”

disjoined, separate

(adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate

separate

(adjective) separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; “separate but equal”; “girls and boys in separate classes”

separate

(adjective) independent; not united or joint; “a problem consisting of two separate issues”; “they went their separate ways”; “formed a separate church”

separate

(noun) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

offprint, reprint, separate

(noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate

(verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; “The road forks”

break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart

(verb) become separated into pieces or fragments; “The figurine broke”; “The freshly baked loaf fell apart”

distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart

(verb) mark as different; “We distinguish several kinds of maple”

classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate

(verb) arrange or order by classes or categories; “How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?”

separate

(verb) divide into components or constituents; “Separate the wheat from the chaff”

separate, disunite, divide, part

(verb) force, take, or pull apart; “He separated the fighting children”; “Moses parted the Red Sea”

separate, divide, part

(verb) come apart; “The two pieces that we had glued separated”

separate, part, split

(verb) go one’s own way; move apart; “The friends separated after the party”

separate, divide

(verb) make a division or separation

separate, part, split up, split, break, break up

(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”

divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve 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”

separate, divide

(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between; “The mountain range divides the two countries”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

separate (not comparable)

Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).

(followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).

Verb

separate (third-person singular simple present separates, present participle separating, simple past and past participle separated)

(transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.

(transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.

(transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.

(intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.

(obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

Synonyms

• (divide into separate parts): partition, split; see also divide

• (disunite something from one thing): See also disjoin

• (cause to be separate): split up, tear apart

• (divide itself): break down, come apart, disintegrate, fall apart

• (select from among others): earmark, sepose; see also set apart

Antonyms

• annex

• combine

Noun

separate (plural separates)

(usually, in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

Usage notes

• The spelling is separate (-par-). seperate (-per-) is a common misspelling.

Anagrams

• asperate

Source: Wiktionary

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Sep"a*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Separated (; p. pr. & vb. n. Separating.] Etym: [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.

Definition: To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.

Sep"a*rate, p. a. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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