1. (noun)offprint, reprint, separate a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
2. (noun)separate a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
3. (adj)separate independent; not united or joint "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
4. (adj)freestanding, separate standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
"a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
5. (adj)separate separated according to race, sex, class, or religion "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
7. (verb)separate, divide act as a barrier between; stand between
"The mountain range divides the two countries"
8. (verb)separate, disunite, divide, part force, take, or pull apart
"He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
9. (verb)distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple"
10. (verb)divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up separate into parts or portions
"divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
11. (verb)separate divide into components or constituents
"Separate the wheat from the chaff"
12. (verb)classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate arrange or order by classes or categories
"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
14. (verb)separate, part, split up, split, break, break up 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"
15. (verb)separate, part, split go one's own way; move apart
"The friends separated after the party"
16. (verb)break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart become separated into pieces or fragments
"The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
17. (verb)discriminate, separate, single out treat differently on the basis of sex or race
18. (verb)separate, divide, part come apart
"The two pieces that we had glued separated"
19. (verb)branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork "The road forks"
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