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US
/ˈsɛpɝˌeɪt, ˈsɛpɝɪt, ˈsɛpɹət/
]
VERB
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go one's own way; move apart
The friends separated after the party -
act as a barrier between; stand between
The mountain range divides the two countries -
come apart
The two pieces that we had glued separated -
arrange or order by classes or categories
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric? -
mark as different
We distinguish several kinds of maple -
become separated into pieces or fragments
The figurine broke
The freshly baked loaf fell apart -
force, take, or pull apart
He separated the fighting children
Moses parted the Red Sea -
discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
My friend and I split up
The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
The business partners broke over a tax question -
divide into components or constituents
Separate the wheat from the chaff - make a division or separation
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
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divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
The road forks -
separate into parts or portions
divide the cake into three equal parts
The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
ADJECTIVE
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separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
girls and boys in separate classes
separate but equal - have the connection undone; having become separate
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independent; not united or joint
formed a separate church
they went their separate ways
a problem consisting of two separate issues -
standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
a freestanding bell tower
a house with a separate garage
NOUN
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
How To Use separate In A Sentence
- So, in the next article in this series we'll explore Vim's simple plug-in architecture, which allows you to factor out parts of your .vimrc and isolate them in separate modules.
- There is a difference, too, between appeasing men of violence and seeking to limit their appeal, just as the leaders of global terror must be separated from those who could become their followers.
- Frank will have access to 18 separate weapons, ranging from pistols and rifles to submachine guns and shotguns.
- These planes are made with two separate stocks held together with either metal or turned wooden screws.
- Europe was last united in neolithic times, before the inseparable meshwork of land, people, community and trade separated into hierarchy, nations and cities.
- For a picnic, chill the strawberries and cream separately, take them along in a cool box, and assemble them on site.
- Proximally, the bursa is bordered by a synovial lining that separates the bursa from the proximal fat pad.
- The genes for cell division did not evolve to separate different kinds of fish.
- There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word. Hyphens.
- It shows fractured blocks of ancient sedimentary rock separated by recent sand dunes.
