verb
- Act as a barrier between; stand between.
- usage: "The mountain range divides the two countries"
- Force, take, or pull apart.
- usage: "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
- Mark as different.
- usage: "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- synonyms: distinguish, separate, 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"
- Divide into components or constituents.
- usage: "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
- synonyms: separate
- Arrange or order by classes or categories.
- usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
- Make a division or separation.
- 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"
- Go one's own way; move apart.
- usage: "The friends separated after the party"
- Become separated into pieces or fragments.
- usage: "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
- synonyms: break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
- Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.
- synonyms: discriminate, separate, single out
- Come apart.
- usage: "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
- usage: "The road forks"
adjective
- Being or feeling set or kept apart from others.
- usage: "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
- Spaced apart.
- synonyms: spaced
- Separated at the joint.
- usage: "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"
- synonyms: disjointed, dislocated
- No longer connected or joined.
- usage: "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
- synonyms: detached
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