Definition of Separate

Noun

  • a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
  • a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

Verb

  • divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
    "The road forks"
  • come apart
    "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
  • treat differently on the basis of sex or race
    - single out
  • become separated into pieces or fragments
    "The figurine broke"
    "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
    - split up - fall apart - come apart
  • go one's own way
    move apart
    "The friends separated after the party"
  • 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"
    - split up - break up
  • make a division or separation
  • arrange or order by classes or categories
    "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
    - sort out
  • divide into components or constituents
    "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
  • separate into parts or portions
    "divide the cake into three equal parts"
    "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
    - split up - carve up
  • mark as different
    "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
    - secernate - severalize - severalise - tell apart
  • force, take, or pull apart
    "He separated the fighting children"
    "Moses parted the Red Sea"
  • act as a barrier between
    stand between
    "The mountain range divides the two countries"

Adjective

  • have the connection undone
    having become separate
  • separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
    "separate but equal"
    "girls and boys in separate classes"
  • standing apart
    not attached to or supported by anything
    "a freestanding bell tower"
    "a house with a separate garage"
  • independent
    not united or joint
    "a problem consisting of two separate issues"
    "they went their separate ways"
    "formed a separate church"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

Word games points for the Separate

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Unscramble separate

310 unscramble word found using the letters separate.
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