separate has definitions from the fields of printing,clothing,writing
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[ adjective ] independent; not united or joint

Examples

"a problem consisting of two separate issues" "they went their separate ways" "formed a separate church"

Used in print

(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)

In regard_to Eichmann , it was to be found in the Nazi outlook , which contained a principle separate from and far worse than anti-Semitism , a principle by which the poison of anti-Semitism itself was made more virulent .

(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)

The form and the chaos remain separate .

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation , because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates .

(Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)

For the States which maintain two separate agencies - one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind , and one for the rehabilitation of persons other_than the blind - the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal_year 1954 .

(Your Federal Income Tax. 1962 Edition (Revised to...)

Refunds of less_than $ 1 will not be made unless you attach a separate application to your return requesting such a refund .

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[ verb ] act as a barrier between; stand between

Synonyms

divide

Examples

: "The mountain range divides the two countries"

Used in print

(M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)

The unstained strips were then marked , using the stained ones as a guide , and cut transversely so as to separate the various protein bands .

With either of the gradients described , chromatography on DEAE-cellulose separated agglutinins of the ABO series into at_least three regions ( Figs. 1 and 2 ) :

When the early part of the gradient was flattened , either by using the gradient shown in Fig. 2 or by allowing the `` cone sphere '' gradient to become established more slowly , Region 2 activity could sometimes be separated into two areas ( donors P._J. and R._S. , Fig. 1 and E._M. , Fig. 2 ) .

(Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)

He was not sure how much of this desire was_due to his devotion to the church and how much was his own ego , demanding to be satisfied , for the two were intertwined and could not be separated .

Related terms

partition watershed

3
[ verb ] force, take, or pull apart

Synonyms

divide part disunite

Examples

"He separated the fighting children" "Moses parted the Red Sea"

Used in print

(Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)

Carrier * * f was added and the aqueous and organic phases were separated ( cells containing gaseous reactants were immersed in liquid_air before opening under sodium_iodide ) .

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

But that year was different , for just as the city , in the form of my street clothes , had intruded upon my mountain nights , so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall : Jessica and I , about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or mess-hall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs , had agreed to correspond .

(Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)

It 's inevitable in_this case , for the couple will be separated for , at_the_least , forty years .

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[ verb ] mark as different

Examples

"We distinguish several kinds of maple"

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

These two aspects of death cannot be successfully separated , but they dare not be confused or identified .

The repeated efforts in Christian history to describe death as altogether the consequence of human sin show that these two aspects of death cannot be separated .

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

The accumulation of such devices , however , soon had the effect of telescoping , even while separating , surface and depth .

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[ verb ] separate into parts or portions

Examples

"divide the cake into three equal parts" "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

Its function is to separate from the base ruled mass , among whom private ownership prevails , the governing warrior elite .

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

`` Your wife just called '' , she said , separating one word from another , exactly like a child .

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[ adjective ] individual and distinct

Synonyms

single

Examples

"pegged down each separate branch to the earth" "a gift for every single child"

Used in print

(Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)

Three separate amplifiers then drive a 21 - inch tricolor tube .

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

Since then , many Protestant_denominations have made separate pronouncements , in which they not_only approved birth_control , but declared it at_times to be a religious duty .

(James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)

Most_of our largest cities have one or more separate vocational or technical high_schools .

The separate vocational or technical high_schools in the large cities must be reckoned as permanent institutions .

Related terms

individual

7
[ verb ] arrange or order by classes or categories

Examples

"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

Used in print

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

In the over-all process , it is difficult to assign a `` pure '' role to each constituent of a built detergent formulation ; and , indeed , there is no_more reason to separate the interrelated roles of the active , builder , antiredeposition agent , etc. than there is to assign individual actions to each of the numerous isomers making_up a given commercial organic active .

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[ verb ] divide into components or constituents

Examples

"Separate the wheat from the chaff"

Used in print

(James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)

Hence , the electron paramagnetic effects ( slope ) can be separated from the nuclear effects ( intercept ) .

Indeed it is possible to separate electron paramagnetic from nuclear effects .

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[ adjective ] standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything

Synonyms

freestanding

Examples

"a freestanding bell tower" "a house with a separate garage"

Used in print

(James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)

Most_of our largest cities have one or more separate vocational or technical high_schools .

The separate vocational or technical high_schools in the large cities must be reckoned as permanent institutions .

Related terms

detached

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[ verb ] make a division or separation

Synonyms

divide

Used in print

(Alfred Wright, "A Duel Golfers Will Never Forget"...)

Rosburg had started early in the day , and by the time Palmer and Player were on the course - separated , as they were destined to be for the rest of the weekend , by about half an hour - they could see on the numerous scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg , who ended with a 73 , was not having a good_day .

(Peter Eldersveld, "Faith Amid Fear"...)

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ?

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[ verb ] go one's own away; move apart

Synonyms

part split

Examples

"The friends separated after the party"

Used in print

(Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)

Separating , they took different sides of the main_drag and systematically combed the bars .

12
[ verb ] become separated into pieces or fragments

Examples

"The figurine broke" "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"

Used in print

(Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)

The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later , when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic_acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities .

13
[ verb ] discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

Examples

"The business partners broke over a tax question" "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" "My friend and I split up"

Used in print

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

When we separated that evening Pat pushed a_hundred dollar_bill into Eileen 's hand to help towards a layette .

14
[ adjective ] have the connection undone; having become separate

Synonyms

disjoined

Related terms

unconnected

15
[ verb ] come apart

Synonyms

divide part

Examples

"The two pieces that we had glued separated"

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[ adjective ] not living together as man and wife

Synonyms

separated apart

Examples

"decided to live apart" "maintaining separate households" "they are separated"

Related terms

divided

17
[ adjective ] characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing

Synonyms

individual single

Examples

"an individual serving" "separate rooms" "single occupancy" "a single bed"

Related terms

unshared

18
[ adjective ] separated according to race, sex, class, or religion

Examples

"separate but equal" "girls and boys in separate classes"

Related terms

segregated

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[ noun ] (printing,writing) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

Synonyms

reprint offprint

Related terms

article reprint

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[ verb ] treat differently on the basis of sex or race
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[ verb ] divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

Examples

"The road forks"

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[ noun ] (clothing) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

Related terms

garment

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