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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. --Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me --Gen. xiii. 9. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? --Rom. viii. 35. 2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa. 3. To set apart; to select from among others as for a special use or service. Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem. --Acts xiii. 2. {Separated flowers} (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. --Gray. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Separate \Sep"a*rate\, v. i. To part to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as the family separated. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Separate \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus p. p. ] 1. Divided from another or others disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen. xlix. 26. 2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected. For such an high priest became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. --Heb. vii. 26. 3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as a separate spirit; the separate state of souls. {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. -- {Sep"a*rate*ly}, adv -- {Sep"a*rate*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child" [syn: {single(a)}] 3: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" [syn: {freestanding}] 4: not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated" [syn: {apart(p)}, {separated}] 5: characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: {individual}, {single(a)}] 6: separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" 7: have the connection undone; having become separate [syn: {disjoined}] n 1: a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication [syn: {offprint}, {reprint}] 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: {divide}] 2: force, take or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [syn: {disunite}, {divide}, {part}] 3: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: {distinguish}, {differentiate}, {secern}, {secernate}, {severalize}, {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}, {dissever}, {carve up}] [ant: {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}] 7: make a division or separation [syn: {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: {part}, {split up}, {split}, {break}, {break up}] 9: go one's own away move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [syn: {part}, {split}] 10: become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" [syn: {break}, {split up}, {fall apart}, {come apart}] 11: treat differently on the basis of sex or race [syn: {discriminate}, {single out}] 12: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" [syn: {divide}, {part}] 13: divide into two or more branches; "The road forks" [syn: {branch}, {ramify}, {fork}]
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