Definition of separates Separates
/sÉËpÉejËts/ - [sepereyts] - sepâ˘aâ˘rates
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- separates (Noun)
Plural of separate.
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| separate - a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments | ||
| separate - a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | ||
| offprint, reprint | ||
| article one of a class of artifacts; "an article of clothing" | ||
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| separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" | ||
| divide, part | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| subdivide divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" | ||
| polarise, polarize become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | ||
| calve, break up birth; "the whales calve at this time of year" | ||
| chip off, come off, break away, break off, chip break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" | ||
| disjoin, disjoint become separated, disconnected or disjoint | ||
| come away, come off, detach leave in a certain condition; "She came away angry" | ||
| segregate separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims" | ||
| segment divide or split up; "The cells segmented" | ||
| reduce take off weight | ||
| section, segment divide or split up; "The cells segmented" | ||
| partition off, partition separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" | ||
| discerp, dismember, take apart cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" | ||
| gerrymander divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | ||
| separate - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" | ||
| disunite, divide, part | ||
| part, divide, separate perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" | ||
| displace, move cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" | ||
| compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!" | ||
| polarise, polarize become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | ||
| keep apart, sequestrate, set apart, isolate, sequester place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" | ||
| disjoin, disjoint become separated, disconnected or disjoint | ||
| disarticulate, disjoint separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" | ||
| disconnect make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | ||
| cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting" | ||
| tear fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing" | ||
| joint separate (meat) at the joint | ||
| gin trap with a snare; "gin game" | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| sever, break up set or keep apart; "sever a relationship" | ||
| rupture, bust, tear, snap fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing" | ||
| separate - divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" | ||
| change integrity change in physical make-up | ||
| decompose, break down, break up separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | ||
| dialyse, dialyze separate by dialysis | ||
| peptise, peptize disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | ||
| macerate soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system" | ||
| card, tease ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor; "I was carded when I tried to buy a beer!" | ||
| filter out, filtrate, separate out, filter, strain remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" | ||
| extract calculate the root of a number | ||
| fractionate obtain by a fractional process | ||
| fractionate obtain by a fractional process | ||
| sieve, sift, strain distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates" | ||
| wash to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat washes several times a day" | ||
| disperse separate (light) into spectral rays; "the prosm disperses light" | ||
| avulse separate by avulsion | ||
| separate - 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" | ||
| part, split up, split, break, break up | ||
| give the bounce, give the gate, give the axe terminate a relationship abruptly; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman" | ||
| disunify, break apart break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" | ||
| disassociate, disunite, divorce, dissociate, disjoint part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" | ||
| break with end a relationship; "China broke with Russia" | ||
| divorce, split up get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" | ||
| secede, splinter, break away withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" | ||
| break away, break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| separate - make a division or separation | ||
| divide | ||
| partition, zone separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| dispel, dissipate, disperse, scatter, break up live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | ||
| rail off, rail complain bitterly | ||
| detach cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" | ||
| close off, shut off block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve" | ||
| separate - go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" | ||
| part, split | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| dissipate, disperse, scatter, spread out live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | ||
| break up laugh unrestrainedly | ||
| diffract undergo diffraction; "laser light diffracts electrons" | ||
| separate - act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" | ||
| divide | ||
| separate - arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" | ||
| classify, class, sort, assort, sort out | ||
| categorise, categorize place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" | ||
| compare examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie" | ||
| unitise, unitize separate or classify into units; "The hospital was unitized for efficiency" | ||
| catalog, catalogue make an itemized list or catalog of; classify; "He is cataloguing his photographic negatives" | ||
| isolate place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" | ||
| refer think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another; "This plant can be referred to a known species" | ||
| reclassify classify anew, change the previous classification; "The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species" | ||
| size make to a size; bring to a suitable size | ||
| dichotomise, dichotomize divide into two opposing groups or kinds | ||
| stereotype, pigeonhole, stamp treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" | ||
| group arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?" | ||
| grade determine the grade of or assign a grade to | ||
| number, count place a limit on the number of | ||
| separate - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" | ||
| distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart | ||
| compare examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie" | ||
| identify, place consider to be equal or the same; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives" | ||
| know be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" | ||
| know apart, discriminate recognize or perceive the difference | ||
| label distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions | ||
| label distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions | ||
| sex tell the sex (of young chickens) | ||
| individualise, individualize make or mark or treat as individual; "The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone" | ||
| contrast put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student" | ||
| severalise, severalize distinguish or separate | ||
| contradistinguish distinguish by contrasting qualities | ||
| dissociate, decouple to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions" | ||
| demarcate set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | ||
| single out, discriminate, separate select from a group; "She was singled out for her outstanding performance" | ||
| stratify render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds" | ||
| separate - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" | ||
| divide, split, split up, dissever, carve up | ||
| unify, unite become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" | ||
| change integrity change in physical make-up | ||
| subdivide divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" | ||
| initialise, initialize, format assign an initial value to a computer program | ||
| sectionalise, sectionalize divide into sections, especially into geographic sections; "sectionalize a country" | ||
| triangulate survey by triangulation; "The land surveyor worked by triangulating the plot" | ||
| unitise, unitize separate or classify into units; "The hospital was unitized for efficiency" | ||
| lot divide into lots, as of land, for example | ||
| parcel make into a wrapped container | ||
| sliver, splinter form into slivers; "sliver wood" | ||
| paragraph write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher | ||
| canton divide into cantons, of a country | ||
| balkanise, balkanize divide a territory into small, hostile states | ||
| separate - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" | ||
| branch, ramify, fork, furcate | ||
| diverge move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here" | ||
| branch out, diversify, broaden vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" | ||
| branch, ramify divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" | ||
| arborise, arborize branch out like trees; "nerve fibers arborize" | ||
| twig branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions" | ||
| bifurcate divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated" | ||
| trifurcate divide into three; "The road trifurcates at the bridge" | ||
| separate - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" | ||
| break, split up, fall apart, come apart | ||
| change integrity change in physical make-up | ||
| decompose, break down, break up separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | ||
| break open, split, burst open with force; "He broke open the picnic basket" | ||
| puncture be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured" | ||
| bust, burst come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst" | ||
| smash break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow; "The window smashed" | ||
| ladder, run come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were running" | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| crack, snap break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked" | ||
| fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up laugh unrestrainedly | ||
| crush break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy" | ||
| separate - treat differently on the basis of sex or race | ||
| discriminate, single out | ||
| secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, distinguish, differentiate, tell, separate distinguish or separate | ||
| insulate, isolate protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came" | ||
| hive off remove from a group and make separate; "The unit was hived off from its parent company" | ||
| segregate separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims" | ||
| redline discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood | ||
| disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me" | ||
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| separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" | ||
| joint involving both houses of a legislature; "a joint session of Congress" | ||
| divided distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | ||
| independent free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism" | ||
| individual, single being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" | ||
| other very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow | ||
| segregated, unintegrated separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood" | ||
| unshared not shared | ||
| separation the act of dividing or disconnecting | ||
| apart remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" | ||
| asunder widely separated especially in space; "as wide asunder as pole from pole" | ||
| set-apart, separated, detached, isolated spaced apart | ||
| discrete, distinct constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" | ||
| disjoint having no elements in common | ||
| disjunct, isolated progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | ||
| isolable capable of being isolated or disjoined | ||
| separate - separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" | ||
| segregated, unintegrated separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood" | ||
| separate - standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" | ||
| freestanding | ||
| separate - have the connection undone; having become separate | ||
| disjoined | ||
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Wiktionary
- separate (Noun)
Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing. - separate (Verb)
To divide a thing into separate parts. - separate (Verb)
To cause things or people to be separate. - separate (Verb)
To divide itself into separate pieces or substances. - separate (Adjective)
Apart from the rest; not connected to or attached to anything else. - separate (Adjective)
Not together with; not united to.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary đ
- separate (v. t.)
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. - separate (v. t.)
To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa. - separate (v. t.)
To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. - separate (v. i.)
To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated. - separate (p. a.)
Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. - separate (p. a.)
Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected. - separate (p. a.)
Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ί
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To move away from each other. -
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To cause something or someone to move away from something or someone else. -
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To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. -
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To set apart from others. -
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To sever the union of. -
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To see someone or something as different from others; to discern or comprehend.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary đ
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separate
sepâ˛a-rÄt, v.t. to divide: to part: to withdraw: to set apart for a certain purpose: to sever.âv.i. to part: to withdraw from each other: to become disunited.âadj. separated: divided: apart from another: distinct.ân. Separabilâ˛ity.âadj. Sepâ˛arable, that may be separated or disjointed.ân. Sepâ˛arableness.âadvs. Sepâ˛arably; Sepâ˛arately.âns Sepâ˛arateness; Sepâ˛arating-disc, an emery-wheel for cutting a space between teeth; SeparÄâ˛tion, act of separating or disjoining: state of being separate: disunion: chemical analysis: divorce without a formal dissolution of the marriage-tie; SeparÄâ˛tionist; Sepâ˛aratism, act of separating or withdrawing, esp. from an established church; Sepâ˛aratist, one who separates or withdraws, esp. from an established church, a dissenter: a name applied by the Unionists to those Liberals in favour of granting Home Rule to Ireland.âadj. Sepâ˛arÄtive, tending to separate.âns. Sepâ˛arÄtor, one who, or that which, separates: a divider; Sepâ˛arÄtory, a chemical vessel for separating liquids of different specific gravities; Sepâ˛arÄtrix, the line separating light from shade on any partly illuminated surface; SeparÄâ˛tum, a separate copy of a paper which has been published in the proceedings of a scientific society.âSeparate estate, property of a married woman over which her husband has no right of control; Separate maintenance, a provision made by a husband for the sustenance of his wife where they decide to live apart. [L. separÄre, -Ätumâse-, aside, parÄre, to put.]
