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/sˈɛpərˌeɪtəd/ /sˈɛpərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Separate v. t. (past & past part. separated; pres. part. separating)

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. "From the fine gold I separate the alloy." "Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me." "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem."

Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers.

Separate v. i. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.

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Etymology of 'Separated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Separated" Quotes from Famous Books

... boughs of the linden, spite of their dense foliage, permitted a glimpse of the broad courtyard which separated the ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... his ship was no more than two hundred and fifty yards from the Detroit. Even then the distance was greater than desirable for the main battery of carronades. A good golfer can drive his tee shot as far as the space of water which separated these two indomitable flagships as they fought. It was a different kind of naval warfare from that of today in which superdreadnaughts score hits at battle ranges of twelve and ...

— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine

... maintained by each. On subjects of vital importance they were disagreed. So that finally they, whose hearts had received their first tender impressions from each other, with an apparent calmness inconsistent with their true feelings, separated, ...

— Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys • Various

... us by their marvellous moderation (cf. Suet. Caesar, 29, 30), but Lentulus would not allow them to be considered. On Jan. 7th the Senatus consultum ultimum was decreed, and a state of war declared. Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the narrow brook which separated his province from Italy, to pass which at the head of an army was high ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... had been found loose in the streets, in the neighbourhood of the Cardinal of Parma's palace, with only one stirrup-leather, the other having clearly been cut from the saddle, and, at the same time, it was related that the servant who had accompanied him after he had separated from the rest had been found at dawn in the Piazza della Giudecca mortally wounded and beyond speech, expiring soon after his ...

— The Life of Cesare Borgia • Raphael Sabatini

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