separately
Use Separately in a sentence
əˌreɪt; verb (used with object)
1.
to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
2.
to put, bring, or force apart; part: to separate two fighting boys.
3.
to set apart; disconnect; dissociate: to separate church and state.
4.
to remove or sever from association, service, etc., especially legally or formally: He was separated from the army right after V-E Day.
5.
to sort, part, divide, or disperse (an assemblage, mass, compound, etc.), as into individual units, components, or elements.
6.
to take by parting or dividing; extract (usually followed by from or out ): to separate metal from ore.
7.
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.
verb (used without object)
8.
to part company; withdraw from personal association (often followed by from ): to separate from a church.
9.
(of a married pair) to stop living together but without getting a divorce.
10.
to draw or come apart; become divided, disconnected, or detached.
11.
to become parted from a mass or compound: Cream separates from milk.
12.
to take or go in different directions: We have to separate at the crossroad.
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Separately
is always a great word to know.
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| 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. |
adjective
13.
detached, disconnected, or disjoined.
14.
unconnected; distinct; unique: two separate questions.
15.
being or standing apart; distant or dispersed: two separate houses; The desert has widely separate oases.
16.
existing or maintained independently: separate organizations.
17.
individual or particular: each separate item.
18.
not shared; individual or private: separate checks; separate rooms.
19.
( sometimes initial capital letter ) noting or pertaining to a church or other organization no longer associated with the original or parent organization.
noun
20.
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.
21.
offprint ( def 1 ).
22.
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
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), pre·sep·a·rat·ed, pre·sep·a·rat·ing.
re·sep·a·rate, verb, re·sep·a·rat·ed, re·sep·a·rat·ing.
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
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.
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.
1–3. unite, connect.
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| separate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to act as a barrier between: a range of mountains separates the two countries |
| 2. | to put or force or be put or forced apart |
| 3. | to part or be parted from a mass or group |
| 4. | (tr) to discriminate between: to separate the men from the boys |
| 5. | to divide or be divided into component parts; sort or be sorted |
| 6. | to sever or be severed |
| 7. | (intr) (of a married couple) to cease living together by mutual agreement or after obtaining a decree of judicial separation |
| —adj | |
| 8. | existing or considered independently: a separate problem |
| 9. | disunited or apart |
| 10. | set apart from the main body or mass |
| 11. | distinct, individual, or particular |
| 12. | solitary or withdrawn |
| 13. | (sometimes capital) designating or relating to a Church or similar institution that has ceased to have associations with an original parent organization |
| [C15: from Latin sēparāre, from sē- apart + parāre to obtain] | |
| 'separately | |
| —adv | |
| 'separateness | |
| —n | |
| separate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to act as a barrier between: a range of mountains separates the two countries |
| 2. | to put or force or be put or forced apart |
| 3. | to part or be parted from a mass or group |
| 4. | (tr) to discriminate between: to separate the men from the boys |
| 5. | to divide or be divided into component parts; sort or be sorted |
| 6. | to sever or be severed |
| 7. | (intr) (of a married couple) to cease living together by mutual agreement or after obtaining a decree of judicial separation |
| —adj | |
| 8. | existing or considered independently: a separate problem |
| 9. | disunited or apart |
| 10. | set apart from the main body or mass |
| 11. | distinct, individual, or particular |
| 12. | solitary or withdrawn |
| 13. | (sometimes capital) designating or relating to a Church or similar institution that has ceased to have associations with an original parent organization |
| [C15: from Latin sēparāre, from sē- apart + parāre to obtain] | |
| 'separately | |
| —adv | |
| 'separateness | |
| —n | |
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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
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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Example sentences
It remained unclear whether the aircraft collided or crashed separately.
All the familiar sounds that came separately into contact with my hearing now seemed to blend into a single, perfect melody.
Roll each separately in chopped nuts, at the same time shaping to form a crescent.
Each of the arts must face the challenge separately, and no art faces more towering obstacles than poetry.
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