What is the meaning of separate?

noun

• A separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication.
  • synonyms: offprint, reprint
• A garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments.

verb

• Act as a barrier between; stand between.
  • usage: "The mountain range divides the two countries"
  • synonyms: divide
• Force, take, or pull apart.
  • usage: "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
  • synonyms: disunite, divide, part
• Mark as different.
  • usage: "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
  • synonyms: distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
• Separate into parts or portions.
  • usage: "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
  • synonyms: divide, split, split up, dissever, carve up
• Divide into components or constituents.
  • usage: "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
• Arrange or order by classes or categories.
  • usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
  • synonyms: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out
• Make a division or separation.
  • synonyms: divide
• Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
  • usage: "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
  • synonyms: part, split up, split, break, break up
• Go one's own way; move apart.
  • usage: "The friends separated after the party"
  • synonyms: part, split
• Become separated into pieces or fragments.
  • usage: "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
  • synonyms: break, split up, fall apart, come apart
• Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.
  • synonyms: discriminate, single out
• Come apart.
  • usage: "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
  • synonyms: divide, part
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: branch, ramify, fork, furcate

adjective

• Independent; not united or joint.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
  • synonyms: freestanding
• Separated according to race, sex, class, or religion.
  • usage: "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
• Have the connection undone; having become separate.
  • synonyms: disjoined