noun
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(usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
verb
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To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
example
Separate the articles from the headings.
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To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
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To cause (things or people) to be separate.
example
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
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To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
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The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
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To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
adjective
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Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
example
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
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(followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
example
I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
Examples of separate in a Sentence
Absolutely. You are two separate people.
When she gave none, he proceeded down a separate hall.
Elisabeth and Miriam drove separate cars to Fairhaven.
It's a one-week tour, each day a separate segment, with everyone riding at their own pace—within reason.
In rewriting the story, Miss Keller made corrections on separate pages on her braille machine.
The screen might be separate from the rood beam or rood loft.
Dunedin is governed by a mayor and corporation, and most of its numerous suburbs are separate municipalities.
Each of us could find separate areas to be alone but remain close to each other.
The man she'd seen in daylight and the one who'd kissed her so passionately in moonlight became two separate people.
We kept him separate because he was a stallion.
My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my life from yours.
It was assumed that each separate speck contained a pure culture.
These three groups traveling together--the cavalry stores, the convoy of prisoners, and Junot's baggage train--still constituted a separate and united whole, though each of the groups was rapidly melting away.
They have a separate vegetarian/vegan menu as well.
In order to prevent youthful unchastity, marriages are contracted between children of eight years old, the girl being brought home to live with the lad at his parents' home till a child is born, when a separate dwelling is provided for the youthful couple.
I've put a bee in the right bonnet with a suggestion to set up a separate location to exclusively handle your tips.
It's a separate obligation.
This rock was separate from the rest of the mountain and was in motion, turning slowly around and around as if upon a pivot.
Prince Vasili and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them.
She had this pretty little filly with her, and I didn't have the heart to separate them.
She made a list of things she would need and a separate list of things she wanted to retrieve from the old house.
He may veto a bill, or in case of an appropriation bill, the separate items, but this veto may be overridden by a simple majority of the total membership of each house.
All these, except Elbassan, Metzovo and Kroia, are described in separate articles.
The school revenues are derived from the sale and rental of public lands granted by Congress, and of the salt and swamp lands devoted by the state to such purposes, from a uniform levy of one mill on each dollar of taxable property in the state, from local levies (averaging 7.2 mills in township districts and 10.07 mills in separate districts in 1908), from certain fines and licences, and from tuition fees paid by non-resident pupils.
In 1832 Wendover lost its right of separate representation.
Biographical historians and historians of separate nations understand this force as a power inherent in heroes and rulers.
Additionally, the restaurant offers selections for those following a low-calorie/low-carb plan, as well as a separate children's menu.
It must be observed that from 639 there were generally separate mayors of Neustria, Austrasia and Burgundy, even when Austrasia and Burgundy formed a single kingdom; the mayor was a sign of the independence of the region.
On a separate issue, I think we should do something with the home page.
He professed the most open materialism, denied immortality in all forms and taught that the soul of man is homogeneous with the soul of animals and plants, material in origin and incapable of separate existence.
After sections on the history and chief modern features of British agriculture, a separate account is given of the general features of American agriculture.
A portion of the manor, generally about a third, constituted the lord's demesne, which, though sometimes separate, usually consisted of strips intermingled with those of his villeins.
In Anglo-Saxon England in the 7th and 8th centuries it seems certain that each of the larger kingdoms, Kent, Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria, had its separate witan, or council, but there is a difference of opinion as to whether this was identical with, or distinct from, the folkmoot, in which, theoretically at least, all freemen had the right to appear.
Materials for forming such an estimate no doubt exist, but before doing so we have to study in infinite detail a vast number of separate manors, municipalities or other separate economic areas.
In historical and statistical investigation, or in special studies of particular subjects, it is possible, given the pecuniary means, to organize a whole army of skilled assistants, and with ordinary care to combine the results of their separate efforts.
The sexes are usually separate.
The upper whorls of the shell are seen to be divided into separate chambers by the formation of successively formed " septa."
In some forms this receptacle acquires a separate external opening remaining connected with the oviduct internally.
On the 7th of June he issued a decree conferring the dignity of viceroy on Eugene de Beauharnais, his stepson; but everything showed that Napoleon's will was to be law; and the great powers at once saw that Napoleon's promise to keep the crowns of France and Italy separate was meaningless.
In his belief that he could ensnare the courts of London and St Petersburg into separate and proportionately disadvantageous treaties, he overreached himself.
Fine stone palaces, richly decorated, with separate sleeping apartments, large halls, ingenious devices for admitting light and air, sanitary conveniences and marvellously modern arrangements for supply of water and for drainage, attest this fact.
The Principles of Political Obligation was afterwards published in separate form.
The earliest churches were built with cemeteries for the dead; and thus we find the nucleus of the city of Venice, little isolated groups of dwellings each on its separate islet, scattered, as Cassiodorus 1 says, like sea-birds' nests over the face of the waters.
It was from Byzantium that the Venetian people received the first recognition of their existence as a separate community.
Turning to the other problem, that of internal fusion and consolidation, we find that in 466, fourteen years after the fall of Aquileia, the population of the twelve lagoon townships met at Grado for the election of one tribune from each island for the better government of the separate communities, and above all to put an end to rivalries which had already begun to play a disintegrating part.
The system of classification adopted in time became so elaborate that many municipalities became isolated, each in a separate class, and the evils of special legislation were revived.
This work, and especially certain notes added by the translator, gave great offence to the advocates of unlimited papal authority, and three separate memorials were presented asking for its repression.
The Marine Department was created a separate branch of the board of trade in 1850, about which time many new and important marine questions came under the board of trade, such, for example, as the survey of passenger steamers, the compulsory examination of masters and mates, the establishment of shipping offices for the engagement and discharge of seamen.
As it was, they were able to contrast their moderation with his wrongheadedness, and thereby seek to separate his cause from that of France.
Possibly the flesh was boiled off the bones at once ("scarification"), or left to rot in separate cists awhile; afterwards the skeletons were collected and the cists re-used.