Noun
- 1. offprint, reprint, separate, article
- usage: a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- 2. separate, garment
- usage: a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
Verb
- 1. separate, divide
- usage: act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
- 2. separate, disunite, divide, part, move, displace
- usage: force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
- 3. distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart, identify, place
- usage: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- 4. divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up, change integrity
- usage: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
- 5. separate, change integrity
- usage: divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
- 6. classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate, categorize, categorise
- usage: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- 7. separate, divide
- usage: make a division or separation
- 8. separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
- usage: 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"
- 9. separate, part, split, move
- usage: go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
- 10. break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart, change integrity
- usage: become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
- 11. discriminate, separate, single out, distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
- usage: treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- 12. separate, divide, part, change
- usage: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- 13. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate, diverge
- usage: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
Adjective
- 1. separate (vs. joint), apart(predicate), asunder(predicate), detached, isolated, separated, set-apart, discrete, distinct, disjoint, disjunct, isolated, isolable, unaccompanied, divided, independent, individual#1, single, other, segregated#1, unintegrated, unshared
- usage: independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
- 2. freestanding, separate, detached (vs. attached)
- usage: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
- 3. separate, segregated (vs. integrated), unintegrated
- usage: separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
- 4. disjoined, separate, unconnected (vs. connected)
- usage: have the connection undone; having become separate
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