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/sˈɛpərˌeɪtəd/ /sˈɛpərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Separate v. t. (past & past part. separated; pres. part. separating)

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. "From the fine gold I separate the alloy." "Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me." "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem."

Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers.

Separate v. i. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.

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Etymology of 'Separated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Separated" Quotes from Famous Books

... together for a few minutes, and then separated, Flash and his companion going back to a quiet lodging they had taken until they could finish their arrangements for disposing of their furniture and belongings before going abroad, while at the same time they finished plucking a country greenhorn they had met at ...

— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty

... then Gerrard, after satisfying his thirst, "cut out" (separated from the rest of the mob) three fat steers indicated by Vale; they were at once taken to the killing yard, and the remainder of the animals driven down to the creek to drink, and Gerrard's ...

— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke

... flamboyants, and unfamiliar shrubs with large broad leaves. Here and there are cocoa-palms. Beyond the little ditches on either side, occupying openings in the natural hedge, are the dwellings—wooden cabins, widely separated from each other. The narrow lanes that enter the road are also lined with habitations, half hidden by banana-trees. There is a prodigious glare, an intense heat. Around, above the trees and the roofs, rise the far hill ...

— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn

... of personal happiness away, and putting her hand on his shoulder, said, "Never, O Harold, did I feel so proud of thee, for Edith could not love thee as she doth, and will till the grave clasp her, if thou didst not love England more than Edith." So these two separated. ...

— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

... music has two chief characteristics, rhythm and melody. In our music these are inseparable; yet they can be separated for the purposes of analysis; and a rhythmical roll of drumbeats or a careless succession of tones harmonically related proves that each may produce an aesthetic effect without the other. We shall ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

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