Definitions for separate

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separate sep·a·rate

Spelling: [verb sep-uh-reyt; adjective, noun Separate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in separate (aaeeprst).

Definitions for separate

noun

1. Usually, separates. women's outer garments that may be worn in combination with a variety of others to make different ensembles, as matching and contrasting blouses, skirts, and sweaters.
2. offprint (def 1).
3. a bibliographical unit, as an article, chapter, or other portion of a larger work, printed from the same type but issued separately, sometimes with additional pages.

adjective

1. detached, disconnected, or disjoined.
2. unconnected; distinct; unique:
3. being or standing apart; distant or dispersed:
4. existing or maintained independently:
5. individual or particular:
6. not shared; individual or private:
7. (sometimes initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a church or other organization no longer associated with the original or parent organization.

verb (used with object)

1. to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space:
2. to put, bring, or force apart; part:
3. to set apart; disconnect; dissociate:
4. to remove or sever from association, service, etc., especially legally or formally:
5. to sort, part, divide, or disperse (an assemblage, mass, compound, etc.), as into individual units, components, or elements.
6. to take by parting or dividing; extract (usually followed by from or out):
7. Mathematics. to write (the variables of a differential equation) in a form in which the differentials of the independent and dependent variables are, respectively, functions of these variables alone: Compare separation of variables.

verb (used without object)

1. to part company; withdraw from personal association (often followed by from):
2. (of a married pair) to stop living together but without getting a divorce.
3. to draw or come apart; become divided, disconnected, or detached.
4. to become parted from a mass or compound:
5. to take or go in different directions:

Origin of separate

1400-50; late Middle English (noun and adj.) Latin sēparātus (past participle of sēparāre), equivalent to sē- se- + par(āre) to furnish, produce, obtain, Examples for separate

There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.

My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.

“She was hot-headed, had her own way of doing things,” Gill said—and so, he left to form a separate militia group.

We separate the search for justice from the search for truth at our peril.

“I never felt that culture and the arts were separate from politics,” he says.

separate the eggs, beat the yolks, and add them to the mixture.

Supposing him ready to separate from her, could she be detached from him?

separate the egg, beat the yolk, and mix it with the potato.

I have left a separate fund in a savings bank for her to draw upon.

He wanted to separate himself from the others, just as Allister always did.