separate
    adj 1: independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting
           of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways";
           "formed a separate church" [ant: joint]
    2: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a
       freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
       [syn: freestanding, separate]
    3: separated according to race, sex, class, or religion;
       "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
    4: have the connection undone; having become separate [syn:
       disjoined, separate]
    n 1: a separately printed article that originally appeared in a
         larger publication [syn: offprint, reprint, separate]
    2: a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in
       combinations with other garments
    v 1: act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain
         range divides the two countries" [syn: separate,
         divide]
    2: force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting
       children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [syn: separate,
       disunite, divide, part]
    3: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
       [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern,
       secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell
       apart]
    4: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three
       equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after
       World War I" [syn: divide, split, split up, separate,
       dissever, carve up] [ant: unify, unite]
    5: divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat
       from the chaff"
    6: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you
       classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn:
       classify, class, sort, assort, sort out,
       separate]
    7: make a division or separation [syn: separate, divide]
    8: 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" [syn: separate, part, split up, split,
       break, break up]
    9: go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after
       the party" [syn: separate, part, split]
    10: become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine
        broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" [syn: break,
        separate, split up, fall apart, come apart]
    11: treat differently on the basis of sex or race [syn:
        discriminate, separate, single out]
    12: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
        [syn: separate, divide, part]
    13: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The
        road forks" [syn: branch, ramify, fork, furcate,
        separate]

Separate \Sep"a*rate\, v. i.
   To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw
   from one another; as, the family separated.
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Separate \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ]
   1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected;
      separated; -- said of things once connected.
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            Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen.
                                                  xlix. 26.
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   2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said
      of things that have not been connected.
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            For such an high priest became us, who is holy,
            harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. --Heb.
                                                  vii. 26.
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   3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate
      spirit; the separate state of souls.
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   Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman
      independent of her husband.

   Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by
      her husband under deed of separation.
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      Sep"a*rate*ness, n.
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Separate \Sep"a*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Separated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Separating.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to
   separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare.
   See Parade, and cf. Sever.]
   1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part
      in any manner.
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            From the fine gold I separate the alloy. --Dryden.
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            Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. --Gen. xiii.
                                                  9.
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            Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
                                                  --Rom. viii.
                                                  35.
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   2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space
      between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea
      separates Europe and Africa.
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   3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a
      special use or service.
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            Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
            I have called thaem.                  --Acts xiii.
                                                  2.
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   Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and
      pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. --Gray.
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