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Meaning of separate
1 definition found From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" [syn: {freestanding}, {separate}] 3: separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" 4: have the connection undone; having become separate [syn: {disjoined}, {separate}] n 1: a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication [syn: {offprint}, {reprint}, {separate}] 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: {separate}, {divide}] 2: force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [syn: {separate}, {disunite}, {divide}, {part}] 3: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: {distinguish}, {separate}, {differentiate}, {secern}, {secernate}, {severalize}, {severalise}, {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}, {separate}, {dissever}, {carve up}] [ant: {unify}, {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}, {separate}] 7: make a division or separation [syn: {separate}, {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: {separate}, {part}, {split up}, {split}, {break}, {break up}] 9: go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [syn: {separate}, {part}, {split}] 10: become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" [syn: {break}, {separate}, {split up}, {fall apart}, {come apart}] 11: treat differently on the basis of sex or race [syn: {discriminate}, {separate}, {single out}] 12: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" [syn: {separate}, {divide}, {part}] 13: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: {branch}, {ramify}, {fork}, {furcate}, {separate}]
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