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separate English

Meaning separate meaning

What does separate mean?
Definitions in simple English

separate Adjective

— Being separate means that a piece of an object is not connected to or attached to the rest of the object. This chair was broken into five separate pieces. — If two objects, ideas, or people are separate from one another, they are not together. I try to keep my personal life separate from work.

separate Verb

— To separate something is to take it apart, divide it, or stop it from connecting. I diced the onions and the carrots, separating them into two piles.

separate

— adjective independent; not united or joint a problem consisting of two separate issues they went their separate ways formed a separate church — verb (= divide) act as a barrier between; stand between The mountain range divides the two countries — verb (= part) force, take, or pull apart He separated the fighting children Moses parted the Red Sea — verb (= distinguish) mark as different We distinguish several kinds of maple — verb (= divide, carve up) separate into parts or portions divide the cake into three equal parts The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I — verb divide into components or constituents Separate the wheat from the chaff — verb (= classify, class) arrange or order by classes or categories How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric? — verb make a division or separation — adjective (= freestanding) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything a freestanding bell tower a house with a separate garage — verb go one's own way; move apart The friends separated after the party — verb (= split up, split, break) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways The business partners broke over a tax question The couple separated after 25 years of marriage My friend and I split up — verb (= break, fall apart) become separated into pieces or fragments The figurine broke The freshly baked loaf fell apart — noun a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments — verb come apart The two pieces that we had glued separated — adjective separated according to race, sex, class, or religion separate but equal girls and boys in separate classes — adjective have the connection undone; having become separate — verb (= discriminate) treat differently on the basis of sex or race — noun (= offprint) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication — verb (= branch, fork) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork The road forks

Synonyms separate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as separate?

separate English » English

divide part split isolate distinct different apart sever segregate divorce disunite distinguish detach split up detached break special share disjoin disconnect break up set apart remove particular leave isolated individual cut off spread sort scatter disperse discriminate discrete classify sort out single pull apart other open out move apart differentiate sunder sequester separated partition keep apart come apart dissever cut

Topics separate topics

What do people use separate to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange Gather

Separate, scatter
Person Life Marriage

Divorce
Language and thought Think Learn

Evaluate, test
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Remove, take apart
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Separate, alone
Work and occupation Agriculture

Process harvest

Conjugation separate conjugation

How do you conjugate separate?

separate · verb

Examples separate examples

How do I use separate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

In this time of the year, male and female yaks break off into separate herds.
I don't want to separate myself from the team.
Separate the remaining pieces by color.
In the third dimension you see yourself as a separate entity in comparison to other people and the universe.
We'd like separate checks.
No one can separate them.
As more time passed, these Creoles became separate languages: Spanish, French, Italian, etc.
This is important enough for separate treatment.
You cannot separate the milk from the coffee once you put it in.
You can't separate language from culture.
We must separate politics from religion.
Farmers separate good apples from bad ones.
They went their separate ways.
She finally decided to separate from her husband.
It's time to separate.
They want to separate after 40 years of marriage.
We shouldn't confuse solitude with isolation. They are two separate things.
I'll show you how to separate gold from sand.
Writing two separate words when it should be written as one is a big problem in Norway.

Movie subtitles

Until I give you a separate message, please stay inside.
That's a separate produce crisper with an independent temperature control.
You know, this has 12 separate functions for.
I'm not at all content about there being a separate entrance for the Family Contraceptive Clinic.
Separate entrance.
It isn't some separate whole thing, Mom.
My Father, nobody is going to separate us!
There were separate cabinets in the restaurant, with separate entrances.
If you crack each separate louse, think of all the energy you use up.
Then who shall ever separate us?
Separate the two natures in us.
Actually, In Our Last Hideout, We Had Separate Rooms And A Fireplace.
I'm very sorry to inform you, wifey dear but the family purse won't stand for our having separate establishment.
After being dropped, multiple reentry vehicles will separate from the capsules while passing through the atmosphere, and upon reaching the stratosphere, the reentry vehicles will subsequently release the micro-drones.
As soon as I am quit of this court business, it won't be long. We meet again, and then we do not separate.
People in love have had to separate, you know.
Whatever your purpose was, I take great relish in savouring each separate horror.
David, if anything should ever separate us, promise me.
Nothing shall ever separate us again.
Let's see, I can put each member of your family in a separate cage and then put tags on them and the Kirbys can march up and down like this.
I've got a separate room for your husband already.
Could I file separate income taxes?
Fate leads you down separate paths, but the world turns and you meet again.
It would be a pity to separate them, but where would you find pity in the heart of a jealous queen?
And at 7 a.m., unless a miracle occurs, that gallows will be used to separate the soul of Earl Williams from his body.
Nothing's ever going to separate us again.
Insurmountable obstacles separate us.
I've been trying for years to get to the bottom of these things. To separate what you call fact from fiction.
These cabins cost two bucks a night. and I'm very sorry to inform you, wifey dear. that the family purse won't stand for separate establishments.
Suppose we could break that chain, separate those two selves free the good in man, and let it go to its higher destiny and segregate the bad.
They separate, go up hills and cross rivers.
We can have separate rooms.
Even if we are on the same bed, we will sleep under separate sheets.
Why don't you separate them?
I tremble at the thought that a honking horn or a ringing bell. or some idiot talking could wake me up and separate us forever.
It is necessary to separate his head from his body!

News and current affairs

Czechoslovakia split into two separate states.
The affirmative answer seems to depend on two separate claims.
The conscious memory of the past experience and the physiological responses elicited thus reflect the operation of two separate memory systems that operate in parallel.
Memory of these 18 days is so crowded that it is difficult to separate one event from another, one phase from the next: the dramatic, the moving, the bizarre, and the unreal from the bathetic.
Each discipline has its own language and its own separate machinery.
Information is at work on each level and comfortable theories explain how the separate ones operate.
The core idea is that Israelis and Palestinians would be citizens of two separate states and thus would identify with two separate political authorities.
Instead of trying to separate and recreate all of these structures and relationships, it makes far more sense to build on them in ways that benefit both states' peoples and economies.
But CACs may not resolve the problem entirely, because a vote would be required for each separate bond issue, and a holdout position could be achieved by buying up the blocking percentage of a small issue.
In the French presidential election, both candidates tried to keep their domestic life separate from their campaign.
They will not negotiate a separate peace. They would like nothing better than for America and Europe to be at odds, rather than working together.
If world leaders take advantage of cost-benefit analysis to separate the wheat from the chaff, the next 15 years could be a boon for global development - including the preservation of biodiversity.
But modern democracies - especially those conducted on the Anglo-Saxon model - take this further, by attempting to separate not only the private from the public, but the person from the politician.
Related to this, it is necessary to separate mass media from both power and the interests of capital.
The CBO also presented a separate analysis that adjusted for household size.
But many of the released prisoners will be transferred to the Gaza Strip, a territory that is completely separate from Israel, where they might join Hamas's militant forces but will not be able to execute terrorist attacks against Israel.
The radical solution was to separate all the assets that were alien to the bank's core business, mainly real estate companies, but also firms in the manufacturing, construction, and service industries.
Many carried the forbidden Tibetan national flag, suggesting that they think of Tibet as a separate country in the past, and in about 20 incidents government offices were burned down.

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