separate

Meanings

• a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
• a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
• act as a barrier between; stand between
• force, take, or pull apart
  • "He separated the fighting children"
• mark as different
• separate into parts or portions
• divide into components or constituents
  • "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
• arrange or order by classes or categories
• make a division or separation
• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
  • "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"
• go one's own way; move apart
  • "The friends separated after the party"
• become separated into pieces or fragments
• treat differently on the basis of sex or race
• come apart
  • "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
• independent; not united or joint
  • "a problem consisting of two separate issues"
  • "they went their separate ways"
  • "formed a separate church"
• standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
  • "a house with a separate garage"
• separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
  • "separate but equal"
  • "girls and boys in separate classes"
• have the connection undone; having become separate

Synonyms

assort, branch, break, break up, carve up, class, classify, come apart, differentiate, discriminate, disjoined, dissever, distinguish, disunite, divide, fall apart, fork, freestanding, furcate, offprint, part, ramify, reprint, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, single out, sort, sort out, split, split up, tell, tell apart