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separate
English
- 🔊 separated according to race, sex, class, or religion“separate but equal”
- 🔊 independent“a problem consisting of two separate issues”
- 🔊 standing apart“a freestanding bell tower”
- 🔊 have the connection undone
- 🔊 a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- 🔊 a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- 🔊 divide into components or constituents“Separate the wheat from the chaff”
- 🔊 force, take, or pull apart“He separated the fighting children”
- 🔊 come apart“The two pieces that we had glued separated”
- 🔊 go one's own way“The friends separated after the party”
- 🔊 make a division or separation
- 🔊 discontinue an association or relation“The business partners broke over a tax question”
- 🔊 act as a barrier between“The mountain range divides the two countries”
- 🔊 become separated into pieces or fragments“The figurine broke”
- 🔊 mark as different“We distinguish several kinds of maple”
- 🔊 treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- 🔊 separate into parts or portions“divide the cake into three equal parts”
- 🔊 divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork“The road forks”
- 🔊 arrange or order by classes or categories“How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?”
Spanish
- 🔊 aparte separate, apart
- 🔊 arredrar to separate, sort
- 🔊 apartar to separate, to divide
- 🔊 descasar to separate, to dismantle
- 🔊 distanciar to separate, distance, space out
- 🔊 separar to separate, to detach (to disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect)