Separate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To set or keep apart; disunite.
  • v. To space apart; scatter: small farms that were separated one from another by miles of open land.
  • v. To sort: separate mail by postal zones.
  • v. To differentiate or discriminate between; distinguish: a researcher who separated the various ethnic components of the population sample.
  • v. To remove from a mixture or combination; isolate.
  • v. To part (a couple), often by decree: She was separated from her husband last year.
  • v. To terminate a contractual relationship, as military service, with; discharge.
  • verb-intransitive. To come apart.
  • verb-intransitive. To withdraw: The state threatened to separate from the Union.
  • verb-intransitive. To part company; disperse.
  • verb-intransitive. To stop living together as spouses.
  • verb-intransitive. To become divided into components or parts: Oil and water tend to separate.
  • adj. Set or kept apart; disunited: Libraries often have a separate section for reference books.
  • adj. Existing as an independent entity.
  • adj. Having undergone schism or estrangement from a parent body: Separate churches.
  • adj. Dissimilar from all others; distinct: "a policeman's way of being separate from you even when he was being nice” ( John le Carré).
  • adj. Not shared; individual: two people who held separate views on the issue.
  • adj. Archaic Withdrawn from others; solitary.
  • n. A garment, such as a skirt, jacket, or pair of slacks, that may be purchased separately and worn in various combinations with other garments.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
  • adj. Not together (with); not united (to).
  • v. To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
  • v. To cause (things or people) to be separate.
  • v. To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
  • n. Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
  • v. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between.
  • v. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
  • verb-intransitive. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another.
  • adj. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
  • adj. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.
  • adj. Disunited from the body; disembodied.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sever the connection or association of; disunite or disconnect in any way; sever.
  • To divide, place, or keep apart; cut off, as by an intervening space or body; occupy the space between: as, the Atlantic separates Europe from America.
  • Synonyms To disjoin, disconnect, detach, disengage, sunder, cleave, distinguish, isolate.
  • To dissociate.
  • To part; be or become disunited or disconnected; withdraw from one another.
  • To cleave; open; come apart.
  • Divided from the rest; disjoined; disconnected: used of things that have been united or associated.
  • Specifically, disunited from the body; incorporeal: as, the separate state of souls.
  • By its or one's self; apart from others; retired; secluded.
  • Distinct; unconnected.
  • Individual; particular.
  • An estate held by another in trust for a married woman.
  • Synonyms Distinct, etc. (see different), disunited, dissociated, detached. See the verb.
  • n. One who is or prefers to be separate; a separatist; a dissenter.
  • n. A member of an American Calvinistic Methodist sect of the eighteenth century, so called because of their organization into separate societies.
  • n. An article issued separately; a separate slip, article, or document; specifically, in bibliography, a copy of a printed article, essay, monograph, etc., published separately from the volume of which it forms a part, often retitled and repaged.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
  • adj. have the connection undone; having become separate
  • v. mark as different
  • v. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
  • n. a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
  • v. become separated into pieces or fragments
  • v. force, take, or pull apart
  • v. make a division or separation
  • v. divide into components or constituents
  • v. come apart
  • adj. independent; not united or joint
  • v. go one's own way; move apart
  • n. a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
  • adj. standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
  • v. act as a barrier between; stand between
  • v. separate into parts or portions
  • v. treat differently on the basis of sex or race
  • v. arrange or order by classes or categories
  • v. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    joined    adjacent    collective    joint    congregate    convene   
    Verb Form
    separated    separates    separating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    article    garment   
    Hyponym
    Form
    separated    separating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disunite    divide    disconnect    sever    part    disjoined    disconnected    separated    unconnected    distinct   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    new    entire    respective    next