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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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