Definition of separate

adjective (a)

• independent; not united or joint (adj.all)

  Antonym: joint
  

  Example:
  A problem consisting of two separate issues.
  They went their separate ways.
  Formed a separate church.
  

  source: wordnet30

noun (n)

• a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication (noun.communication)

  Synonym: offprint, reprint
  

  source: wordnet30
• a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments (noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30

preposition (pre)

• Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. (preposition)

  source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

• standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything (adj.all)

  Synonym: freestanding
  

  Example:
  A house with a separate garage.
  

  source: wordnet30
• separated according to race, sex, class, or religion (adj.all)

  Example:
  Separate but equal.
  Girls and boys in separate classes.
  

  source: wordnet30
• have the connection undone; having become separate (adj.all)

  Synonym: disjoined
  

  source: wordnet30

verb (v)

• act as a barrier between; stand between (verb.stative)

  Synonym: divide
  

  source: wordnet30
• force, take, or pull apart (verb.contact)

  Synonym: disunite, divide, part
  

  Example:
  He separated the fighting children.
  

  source: wordnet30
• mark as different (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart
  

  source: wordnet30
• separate into parts or portions (verb.social)

  Synonym: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up
  Antonym: unify, unite
  

  source: wordnet30
• divide into components or constituents (verb.contact)

  Example:
  Separate the wheat from the chaff.
  

  source: wordnet30
• arrange or order by classes or categories (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out
  

  source: wordnet30
• make a division or separation (verb.motion)

  source: wordnet30
• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways (verb.social)

  Synonym: break, break up, part, split, split up
  

  Example:
  The couple separated after 25 years of marriage.
  

  source: wordnet30
• go one's own way; move apart (verb.motion)

  Synonym: part, split
  

  Example:
  The friends separated after the party.
  

  source: wordnet30
• become separated into pieces or fragments (verb.change)

  Synonym: break, come apart, fall apart, split up
  

  source: wordnet30
• treat differently on the basis of sex or race (verb.social)

  Synonym: discriminate, single out
  

  source: wordnet30
• come apart (verb.contact)

  Synonym: break up, divide, part
  

  Example:
  The two pieces that we had glued separated.
  

  source: wordnet30
• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork (verb.change)

  Synonym: branch, fork, furcate, ramify
  

  source: wordnet30
• To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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