separate
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
separate (not comparable)
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
- I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
- French: séparé, séparée
- German: einzeln, getrennt, separat
- Italian: separato, separata
- Portuguese: separado
- Russian: отде́льный
- Spanish: separado
- French: séparé, séparée
- German: getrennt, separat
- Italian: separato, separata
- Portuguese: separado
- Russian: разде́льный
- Spanish: separado
separate (separates, present participle separating; past and past participle separated)
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
- Separate the articles from the headings.
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
- Bible, Romans viii. 35
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
- (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
- Bible, Acts xiii. 2
- Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
- Bible, Acts xiii. 2
- (divide into separate parts) partition, split; see also Thesaurus:divide
- (disunite something from one thing) See also Thesaurus:disjoin
- (cause to be separate) split up, tear apart
- (divide itself) break down, come apart, disintegrate, fall apart
- (select from among others) earmark, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- French: séparer
- German: trennen, scheiden, separieren
- Italian: separare
- Portuguese: separar
- Russian: отделя́ть
- Spanish: separar
- French: séparer
- German: separieren, unterscheiden, absondern
- Portuguese: separar
- Russian: разделя́ть
- Spanish: separar, disgregar
- French: séparer
- German: sich trennen, auseinanderfallen
- Portuguese: separar-se
- Russian: разделя́ться
- Spanish: separar
separate (plural separates)
- (usually, in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
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