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[v. sep-uh-reyt; adj., n. sep-er-it]

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verb (used with object)

to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.

to put, bring, or force apart; part: to separate two fighting boys.

to set apart; disconnect; dissociate: to separate church and state.

to remove or sever from association, service, etc., especially legally or formally: He was separated from the army right after V-E Day.

to sort, part, divide, or disperse (an assemblage, mass, compound, etc.), as into individual units, components, or elements.

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to take by parting or dividing; extract (usually followed by from or out): to separate metal from ore.

Mathematics. to write (the variables of a differential equation) in a form in which the differentials of the independent and dependent variables are, respectively, functions of these variables alone: We can separate the variables to solve the equation. Compare separation of variables.

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verb (used without object)

to part company; withdraw from personal association (often followed by from): to separate from a church.

(of a married pair) to stop living together but without getting a divorce.

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to draw or come apart; become divided, disconnected, or detached.

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to become parted from a mass or compound: Cream separates from milk.

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to take or go in different directions: We have to separate at the crossroad.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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adjective

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detached, disconnected, or disjoined.

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unconnected; distinct; unique: two separate questions.

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being or standing apart; distant or dispersed: two separate houses; The desert has widely separate oases.

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existing or maintained independently: separate organizations.

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individual or particular: each separate item.

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not shared; individual or private: separate checks; separate rooms.

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(sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a church or other organization no longer associated with the original or parent organization.

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noun

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Usually, separates. women's outer garments that may be worn in combination with a variety of others to make different ensembles, as matching and contrasting blouses, skirts, and sweaters.

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offprint (def. 1).

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a bibliographical unit, as an article, chapter, or other portion of a larger work, printed from the same type but issued separately, sometimes with additional pages.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English (noun and adj.) < Latin sēparātus (past participle of sēparāre), equivalent to sē- se- + par(āre) to furnish, produce, obtain, prepare + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

sep·a·rate·ly, adverb

sep·a·rate·ness, noun

non·sep·a·rat·ing, adjective

pre·sep·a·rate, verb (used with object), -rat·ed, -rat·ing.

re·sep·a·rate, verb, -rat·ed, -rat·ing.

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un·sep·a·rate, adjective

un·sep·a·rate·ly, adverb

un·sep·a·rate·ness, noun

un·sep·a·rat·ed, adjective

un·sep·a·rat·ing, adjective

well-sep·a·rat·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
1, 2. sever, sunder, split. Separate, divide imply a putting apart or keeping apart of things from each other. To separate is to remove from each other things previously associated: to separate a mother from her children. To divide is to split or break up carefully according to measurement, rule, or plan: to divide a cake into equal parts. 3. disjoin, disengage. 13. unattached, severed, discrete. 15. secluded, isolated. 16. independent.

Antonyms
1–3. unite, connect.

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Example Sentences

Separated sutures are abnormally wide spaces in the bony joints of the skull in an infant.

The frozen corpses had to be separated with boiling water.

Magnetic tunnel junctions have two ferromagnetic layers separated by a thin insulating barrier.

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Separated sutures are abnormally wide spaces in the bony joints of the skull in an infant.

The frozen corpses had to be separated with boiling water.

Magnetic tunnel junctions have two ferromagnetic layers separated by a thin insulating barrier.

The city once consisted of two feuding medieval towns separated by a wall.

Each cell consists of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte, often a polymer gel.

Field paleontologists drill under a mummified dinosaur's ten-ton body block, now separated from its tail.

Link between spatially separated ions could form the basis of quantum communications.

The boys were separated and placed in non-Amish foster homes.

Small beds separated by brick paths make tending all crops easy.

The two live more interdependent lives, sometimes tightly tied and sometimes completely separated from one another.

They are still fully conjoined and will not be separated until the third or fourth operation.

Place separated cards in a pile face down during play.

It is probably the first time this young female has been separated from her mother.

There are two general explanations for how a fish species might end up in different lakes separated by hundreds of miles.

Dante-who is separated from mother and baby-is not the fathering sort, he plays no part in the rearing of offspring.

Each pair of discs was separated from the next by cardboard that had been soaked in salty water.

The overall pattern indicated a loss of effectiveness in the immune system's ability to resist disease in the separated women.

After blood has been given by a donor, its red cells are normally separated from the plasma.

Parallel mountain ranges are separated by deep, narrowly incised river valleys.

They separated the various types of leukemia cancer cells into separate dishes to find which ones could replenish themselves.

It provides that when a man and wife have separated for a period of three years--provided they, have no children, or.

Until recently, these different realities were separated by thick layers of money.

Above him, a mere thousand feet of apparently easy snow climbing separated him from the summit.

The butter is done when it has completely separated from the liquid and forms a solid, single clump.

What separated him from a run-of-the-mansion celebrity portraitist is his offhand intimacy and sly wit.

The earliest screens were resistive touchscreens, where two thin metallic layers are separated by a narrow gap.

Columbine was a tragedy because it has separated us instead of bringing us together.

The debate is conflating two questions, which need to be separated.

Polar bears live on the ice, and travel is difficult because the floes can be separated by open water gaps called leads.

There are not two languages separated in his/her brain.

He separated the pages, stuffed them in the box and proceeded to the taping process.

As the lander separated and began to descend, the orbiter's stabilization system went awry, blacking out for almost an hour.

Sheldrick undertook the raising of baby animals who had been separated from their elders.

Rule-makers need to be separated from advocates for the profession.

In each pond, the tadpoles were separated into two groups.

In this setup, a lever separated each subject's right index finger from their partner's left.

She warns against the consequences of keeping science and the arts separated.

Every major street has separated bike paths where bikes are separated from cars.

The head of the household may be widowed, divorced, separated legally or a single woman with dependents.

The separated metal can then be scooped up and removed.

There goes my boxes of careful separated packaging plastics and other boxes for the paper section.

The collectors are separated by windows portraying a mansion, but connected by slim organs.

The fertilizer was the last of the buildings to the north, and was separated from the refinery works by only a narrow alley.

Sifting through the collection, they separated out the bones of a theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur.

As steam is separated from air, it condenses, which pumps heat.

As ice barriers melt, species that have been separated for millennia can comingle once again.

He had been found on a road, with a separated shoulder and his knee gashed open to the joint.

That's why the study of economics is separated into micro- and macroeconomics.

Sensing disaster, scores of spectators began surging over the fence that separated the track apron from the homestretch.

Widely separated places are interconnected as a consequence of improved transportation and communication networks.

All electrochemical cells consist of two electrodes separated by some distance.

That's when the gorilla louse and the human pubic louse separated into distinct species, the research revealed.

The negatively charged powder is attracted to the paper as it is separated from the photoconductor.

Brown crown and brownish gray back separated by subtle gray collar.

The scientists separated single cells, known as blastomeres, from the embryos and cultivated them separately.

Calves often fall victim to tigers or are separated from their mothers by monsoon floods.

We might have had some positive interaction with someone and got separated or forgotton all about it.

The fields were separated by hundreds of meters of pine forest.

One engine separated from the wing, but the three-engine plane still could have flown.

Many were separated from their families after falling into wells dug for livestock.

The cubs had been separated from their aggressive mother.

Canvas tents kept the sick separated and less likely to spread the deadly virus.

Also, many slave owners changed slaves' names and separated and sold members of a family.

Super seniors in three widely separated regions share a number of key habits.

Indonesians are separated by seas and clustered on islands.

Coastal plains are separated from the rest of the interior by nearby landforms, such as mountains.

But experts have now concluded that the die-offs occurred in two waves separated by eight million years or so.

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Word Origin & History

separate

late 14c., from L. separatus, pp. of separare "to pull apart," from se- "apart" (see secret) + parare "make ready, prepare" (see pare). Sever (q.v.) is a doublet, via French. The adj. meaning "detached, kept apart" is

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first recorded c.1600, from the pp. used as an adjective. Separate but equal in ref. to U.S. segregation policies on railroads is attested from 1890. Separate development, official name of apartheid in South Africa, is from 1955.

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