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Meaning of separate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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