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separated |
2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: separated adj 1: being or feeling set or kept apart from others "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: {detached}, {isolated}, {set-apart}] 2: spaced apart [syn: {spaced}] 3: not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated" [syn: {apart(p)}, {separate}] 4: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" [syn: {disjointed}, {dislocated}] 5: no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases" [syn: {detached}]
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