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Separate

adjective

1.

Independent; not united or joint. "They went their separate ways" , "Formed a separate church"

2.

Standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything. Synonym: freestanding. "A house with a separate garage"

3.

Separated according to race, sex, class, or religion. "Girls and boys in separate classes"

4.

Have the connection undone; having become separate. Synonym: disjoined.

verb

(past & past part. separated; pres. part. separating)

1.

Act as a barrier between; stand between. Synonym: divide.

2.

Force, take, or pull apart. Synonyms: disunite, divide, part. "Moses parted the Red Sea"

3.

Mark as different. Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart.

4.

Separate into parts or portions. Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up. "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

5.

Divide into components or constituents.

6.

Arrange or order by classes or categories. Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out.

7.

Make a division or separation. Synonym: divide.

8.

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways. Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up. "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" , "My friend and I split up"

9.

Go one's own way; move apart. Synonyms: part, split.

10.

Become separated into pieces or fragments. Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up. "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"

11.

Treat differently on the basis of sex or race. Synonyms: discriminate, single out.

12.

Come apart. Synonyms: divide, part.

13.

Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork. Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify.

noun

1.

A separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication. Synonyms: offprint, reprint.

2.

A garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments.

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"Separate" Quotes from Famous Books

... kitchen separate from the house on the bluff, and over this Mackay with his students built a second story. And here they would often slip away for a little quiet time together. One night, about eleven o'clock, Mackay was here ...

— The Black-Bearded Barbarian (George Leslie Mackay) • Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, AKA Marion Keith

... wild bull, and, seizing a knife from the table, rushed upon Arthur. The two men struggled with one another. The table fell over; and while Louison unsuccessfully tried to separate the combatants, Velletri looked coolly ...

— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere

... Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU led to independence in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Fundamental concerns in India include the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife, all this despite ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... the most exhilarating, most entrancing, most voluptuous dance that feet of man have ever trod. The girls and lads are indefatigable, the slow and languorous Lassu (slow movement) alternates with the mad, merry csardas, they twirl and twist, advance, retreat, separate and reunite in a mad, intoxicating whirl. Small booted feet stamp on the rough wooden floor, sending up clouds of dust. What matter if the air becomes more and more stifling? There are tears and sighs ...

— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... Bulletin No. 57. In the absence of modern methods of sewage disposal, absolutely sanitary privies are prime necessities, whether in towns or on farms. Directions for building and caring for such privies will be found in Farmers' Bulletin 463 and in Yearbook Separate 712, "Sewage Disposal on the Farm." The box privy is always a nuisance from many points of view, and is undoubtedly dangerous as a breeder of flies which may carry the germs of intestinal diseases. The dry-earth treatment of privies ...

— The House Fly and How to Suppress It - U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1408 • L. O. Howard and F. C. Bishopp

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