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English Dictionary: Separated by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): detached, isolated, separated, set-apart
  2. spaced apart
    Synonym(s): separated, spaced
  3. separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"
    Synonym(s): disjointed, dislocated, separated
  4. 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"
    Synonym(s): detached, separated
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.
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