separate
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.
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.
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.
to draw or come apart; become divided, disconnected, or detached.
to become parted from a mass or compound: Cream separates from milk.
to take or go in different directions: We have to separate at the crossroad.
detached, disconnected, or disjoined.
unconnected; distinct; unique: two separate questions.
being or standing apart; distant or dispersed: two separate houses;The desert has widely separate oases.
existing or maintained independently: separate organizations.
individual or particular: each separate item.
not shared; individual or private: separate checks;separate rooms.
Sometimes Sep·a·rate . noting or relating to a church or other organization no longer associated with the original or parent organization.
Usually sep·a·rates . 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.
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 of separate
1synonym study For separate
Other words for separate
| 1, 2 | sever, sunder, split |
| 3 | disjoin, disengage |
| 13 | unattached, severed, discrete |
| 15 | secluded, isolated |
| 16 | independent |
Opposites for separate
Other words from separate
- 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·ness, noun
- un·sep·a·rat·ed, adjective
- un·sep·a·rat·ing, adjective
- well-sep·a·rat·ed, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use separate in a sentence
Sinopharm is behind two of the efforts, partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and the Beijing Institute of Biological Products on separate candidates.
China’s controversial emergency-use program for COVID vaccines is going global | Grady McGregor | September 16, 2020 | FortuneMany websites introduced two separate versions of content served to users depending on the device they’re using.
How to earn your place in Google’s index in 2020 | Bartosz Góralewicz | September 14, 2020 | Search Engine LandThe stock has endured three separate declines of 30% or more since then including a 53% crash immediately after going public.
The main caveat is that games available through these services must have their own listings in the App Store and be available as a separate download.
Though not a streaming gaming service, GameClub is a subscription-based service for classic games where each game has its own separate listing.
Apple revises App Store rules to permit game streaming apps, clarify in-app purchases and more | Sarah Perez | September 11, 2020 | TechCrunch
Andrew and Fergie separated in 1992 after six years of marriage and formally divorced in 1996.
But the film lags during long stretches—particularly in the middle, when Franco and Rogen are separated from one-another.
Sony’s ‘The Interview’: A Glorious, Patriotic, and Katy Perry-Filled Mess | Marlow Stern | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCounter-protestors marched to confront the pro-police contingent, separated by barricades and uniformed officers.
The church would “keep people separated from their families,” Fenner says, while “being dealt with for sexual sins.”
A much larger number are immediately separated from their infants, who are typically placed in some form of out-of-home care.
On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinAnd with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensThe intricacies and abrupt turns in the road separated him from his immediate followers.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterBut all these fiscal operations should be, for our present purposes, separated from monetary operations.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsAfter the abdication of the emperor, he broke up all connection with the Bonaparte family, and separated from his wife.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munsell
British Dictionary definitions for separate
(tr) to act as a barrier between: a range of mountains separates the two countries
to put or force or be put or forced apart
to part or be parted from a mass or group
(tr) to discriminate between: to separate the men from the boys
to divide or be divided into component parts; sort or be sorted
to sever or be severed
(intr) (of a married couple) to cease living together by mutual agreement or after obtaining a decree of judicial separation
existing or considered independently: a separate problem
disunited or apart
set apart from the main body or mass
distinct, individual, or particular
solitary or withdrawn
(sometimes capital) designating or relating to a Church or similar institution that has ceased to have associations with an original parent organization
Origin of separate
1Derived forms of separate
- separately, adverb
- separateness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse