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English Dictionary: separate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
separate adj independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" Antonym(s): joint standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" Synonym(s): freestanding, separate separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" have the connection undone; having become separate Synonym(s): disjoined, separate n a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication Synonym(s): offprint, reprint, separate a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments v act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" Synonym(s): separate, divide force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" Synonym(s): separate, disunite, divide, part mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" Synonym(s): distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" Synonym(s): divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up Antonym(s): unify, unite divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" Synonym(s): classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate make a division or separation Synonym(s): separate, divide 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" Synonym(s): separate, part, split up, split, break, break up go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" Synonym(s): separate, part, split become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" Synonym(s): break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart treat differently on the basis of sex or race Synonym(s): discriminate, separate, single out come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" Synonym(s): separate, divide, part divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" Synonym(s): branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate
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"arate\, 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"arately}, adv. -- {Sep"arateness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Separate \Sep"arate\, 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.