separate

Plural: separates

Noun

• a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
• a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
• Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
• A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.

Verb

Verb Forms: separated, separating, separates

• To set or keep apart; to divide into distinct parts.
• act as a barrier between; stand between
• force, take, or pull apart
  • "He separated the fighting children"
• mark as different
• separate into parts or portions
• divide into components or constituents
  • "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
• arrange or order by classes or categories
• make a division or separation
• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
  • "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"
• go one's own way; move apart
  • "The friends separated after the party"
• become separated into pieces or fragments
• treat differently on the basis of sex or race
• come apart
  • "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
• To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
• To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

Adjective

• independent; not united or joint
  • "a problem consisting of two separate issues"
  • "they went their separate ways"
  • "formed a separate church"

Adjective Satellite

• standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
  • "a house with a separate garage"
• separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
  • "separate but equal"
  • "girls and boys in separate classes"
• have the connection undone; having become separate

Adj

• Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• Not together (with); not united (to).

Examples

• I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
• If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
• Separate the articles from the headings.
• Sometimes you have to ’SEPARATE’ your high-value tiles from your vowels to find a bingo.
• The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
• This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.

Synonyms

assort, branch, break, break up, carve up, class, classify, come apart, differentiate, discriminate, disjoined, dissever, distinguish, disunite, divide, fall apart, fork, freestanding, furcate, offprint, part, ramify, reprint, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, single out, sort, sort out, split, split up, tell, tell apart, allocate, appropriate, assign, becut, break down, dedicate, designate, detach, detached, disaggregate, disassemble, discerp, discrete, disintegrate, disjoin, disparate, dispart, distinct, disunify, divorce, divvy up, earmark, loose, partition, peel off, pick off, piecemeal, preselect, put aside, rescind, section, separate, sepose, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, sunder, sundry, tear apart, unannexed, unassociated, unattached, unconnected, unjoin

Antonyms

joint, unite, annex, coherent, combine, conjunct, indistinct, joined, unified

Related Words

asunder, disconnect, disunite, divide, divisible, reduce, separation, separative, split, subtract

Anagrams of separate