separate
/'seprit/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Not joined or connected; distinct: Existing as an individual or independent entity, not physically attached or united with another.
- Different; distinct: Used to describe things that are different from each other and not related or combined.
- Existing or considered independently: Not shared or used jointly; intended for a particular person or purpose.
Noun:
- A garment sold individually: An item of clothing, such as a skirt or blouse, designed to be worn in various combinations with other pieces.
- A reprint: An article or chapter printed individually after originally being part of a larger publication.
Verb:
- To move or come apart; to divide: To cause things that were together to no longer be connected, or to become disconnected.
- To distinguish or differentiate: To recognize or show the difference between two or more things.
- To stop living together as a couple: For a married or cohabiting couple to end their shared living arrangement.
- To divide into categories or groups: To sort or classify items based on shared characteristics.
- To act as a division or barrier: To lie between two areas, keeping them apart.
Usage Examples
Adjective:
- They have separate bank accounts. (They maintain distinct, individual accounts.)
- Please keep the recyclables in a separate bin. (Use a different, dedicated container for recyclable materials.)
- The house has a separate garage. (The garage is a standalone structure, not attached to the house.)
Noun:
- She bought a silk separate to match her suit. (She purchased an individual blouse to coordinate with her suit.)
- The journal published a separate of the most cited article. (The journal issued a standalone reprint of the article.)
Verb:
- Carefully separate the egg yolk from the white. (Divide the egg, keeping the yolk and white apart.)
- It's important to separate facts from opinions. (It is crucial to differentiate between factual information and personal views.)
- The couple decided to separate last year. (The couple chose to end their cohabitation.)
- The teacher asked the children to separate the blocks by color. (The teacher instructed the children to sort the blocks into groups based on color.)
- A high wall separates the two gardens. (A wall acts as a barrier between the two gardens.)
Advanced Usage
- "To separate the wheat from the chaff": To distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones.
- The rigorous interview process helps separate the wheat from the chaff.
- "To go one's separate ways": For people to end a relationship or association and pursue different paths.
- After graduation, the friends went their separate ways.
- "A separate peace": An agreement or truce made independently of other, larger conflicts or groups.
- The rebel faction sought a separate peace with the government.
Variants and Related Words
- Separately (adverb): In a separate manner; individually.
- The items are sold separately.
- Separation (noun): The action or state of moving or being moved apart.
- The separation of the two components is difficult.
- Separated (adjective): No longer living together as a couple.
- They are separated but not divorced.
- Separable (adjective): Able to be separated or treated separately.
- The issue is separable into two distinct problems.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Distinct, individual, detached, isolated, independent.
- Verb: Divide, split, part, disconnect, segregate, distinguish, classify.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Separate out: To remove one type of thing from a group or mixture.
- You need to separate out the damaged goods from the rest.
- Separate off: To divide or mark a section as distinct.
- A curtain was used to separate off a corner of the room.
Related Idioms
- Separate the men from the boys: To distinguish the experienced, competent, or brave people from the inexperienced or weak.
- This challenging project will really separate the men from the boys.
- Separate but equal: A doctrine, now rejected, asserting that providing segregated facilities for different racial groups is acceptable if the facilities are equal in quality. (Primarily historical/legal context).
- The "separate but equal" doctrine was overturned by the Supreme Court.
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
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
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- The figurine broke
- The freshly baked loaf fell 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
- make a division or separation
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
- 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
- mark as different
- We distinguish several kinds of maple
- 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