SEPARATE

Definition:

1. [noun] a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
   Synonyms: offprint, reprint
   
   
2. [noun] a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
   
   
3. [verb] act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
   Synonyms: divide
   
   
4. [verb] force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
   Synonyms: disunite, divide, part
   
   
5. [verb] mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
   Synonyms: distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
   
   
6. [verb] separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
   Synonyms: divide, split, split up, dissever, carve up
   
   
7. [verb] come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
   Synonyms: divide, part
   
   
8. [verb] divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
   
   
9. [verb] arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards
   Synonyms: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out
   
   
10. [verb] become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
    Synonyms: break, split up, fall apart, come apart
    
    
11. [verb] make a division or separation
    Synonyms: divide
    
    
12. [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"
    Synonyms: part, split up, split, break, break up
    
    
13. [verb] go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
    Synonyms: part, split
    
    
14. [verb] treat differently on the basis of sex or race
    Synonyms: discriminate, single out
    
    
15. [verb] divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
    Synonyms: branch, ramify, fork, furcate
    
    
16. [adjective] independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
    
    
17. [adjective] individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child"
    Synonyms: single
    
    
18. [adjective] standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
    Synonyms: freestanding
    
    
19. [adjective] not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"
    Synonyms: apart
    
    
20. [adjective] characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed"
    Synonyms: individual, single
    
    
21. [adjective] separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
    
    
22. [adjective] have the connection undone; having become separate
    Synonyms: disjoined
    
    

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Related Words:

• compartmentalize, compartmentalise, cut up
• polarize, polarise
• sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate
• disjoin, disjoint
• disjoint, disarticulate
• disconnect
• cut
• tear
• joint
• gin
• break
• sever, break up
• tear, rupture, snap, bust
• know
• discriminate, know apart
• label
• label
• sex
• individualize, individualise
• contrast
• severalize, severalise
• contradistinguish
• decouple, dissociate
• demarcate
• discriminate, separate, single out
• stratify
• subdivide
• format, initialize, initialise
• sectionalize, sectionalise
• triangulate
• unitize, unitise
• lot
• parcel
• sliver, splinter
• paragraph
• canton
• Balkanize, Balkanise
• subdivide
• polarize, polarise
• calve, break up
• chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off
• disjoin, disjoint
• detach, come off, come away
• segregate
• segment
• reduce
• segment, section
• partition, partition off
• dismember, take apart, discerp
• gerrymander
• decompose, break up, break down
• dialyse, dialyze
• peptize, peptise
• macerate
• tease, card
• filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out
• extract
• fractionate
• fractionate
• sift, sieve, strain
• wash
• avulse
• unitize, unitise
• catalogue, catalog
• isolate
• refer
• reclassify
• size
• dichotomize, dichotomise
• pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp
• group
• grade
• count, number
• burst, split, break open
• puncture
• burst, bust
• smash
• ladder, run
• snap, crack
• break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
• crush
• partition, zone
• break
• disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter
• rail, rail off
• detach
• shut off, close off
• give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate
• disunify, break apart
• disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
• break with
• divorce, split up
• secede, splinter, break away
• break, break away
• disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out
• break up
• diffract
• isolate, insulate
• hive off
• segregate
• redline
• disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour
• arborize, arborise
• twig
• bifurcate
• trifurcate

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