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See also:sepárate

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishseparaten(“to separate”), fromseparat(“separated”) +‎-en, fromLatinsēparātus,perfectpassiveparticiple ofsēparō(“to separate”) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), fromsē-(“apart”) +‎parō(“prepare”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*per-(“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”). DisplacedMiddle Englishscheden, fromOld Englishscēadan (whenceEnglishshed).

Doublet ofsever, also derived from the same Latin verb.

Verb

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separate (third-person singular simple presentseparates,present participleseparating,simple past and past participleseparated)

  1. (transitive) Todivide (a thing) intoseparateparts.
    Synonyms:partition,split;see alsoThesaurus:divide
    Separate the articles from the headings.
    • 2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, inNature‎[1], number446:
      Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worthseparating should beseparated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
    • 2008, Kshudiram Saha,The Earth's Atmosphere: Its Physics and Dynamics, Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN,page102:
      The mesosphere may be described as the earth's intermediate or middle atmosphere, whichseparates the thermosphere above from the ozonosphere (or stratosphere) below, both of which are responsible for absorption of most of the ultraviolet part of the solar radiation and preventing it from reaching the earth's surface.
  2. (transitive) Todisunite from a group or mass; todisconnect.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:disjoin
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Romans8:35:
      Who shallseparate us from the love of Christ?
    • 1683,John Dryden,The Art of Poetry:
      From the fine gold Iseparate the allay [alloy].
    • 1832,Letitia Elizabeth Landon,Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page66:
      There must be some deep-rooted anti-social principle in every man's nature, so dearly does he love aught thatseparates him from his kind; or is it but one of the many shapes taken by that mental kaleidoscope, vanity, the varying and the glittering, the desire of distinction, sinking into that of notice?
  3. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
    Synonyms:split up,tear apart
    If the kids get too noisy,separate them for a few minutes.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders thatseparate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
  4. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
    Synonyms:break down,come apart,disintegrate,fall apart
    The sauce willseparate if you don't keep stirring.
  5. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
    Synonyms:earmark,sepose;see alsoThesaurus:set apart
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Translations
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to divide into separate parts
to disunite, disconnect
to cause to be separate
to divide itself

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishseparat, see-ate(“adjective-forming suffix”) andEtymology 1 for more.

Adjective

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separate (notcomparable)

  1. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
    This chair can be disassembled into fiveseparate pieces.
    • 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan,Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page152:
      Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter areseparate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.
  2. (followed by “from”) Nottogether (with); notunited (to).
    I try to keep my personal lifeseparate from work.
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Translations
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apart from; not connected to
followed by "from": not together with

Etymology 3

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From asubstantivization of the aboveadjective, see-ate(“noun-forming suffix”) andEtymology 1 for more.

Noun

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separate (pluralseparates)

  1. (usually in theplural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
    • 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, inthe Guardian‎[2]:
      French taffeta eveningseparates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.
  2. (bibliography) A printing of anarticle from aperiodical as its own distinct publication anddistributed independently, often with different page numbers.
Usage notes
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  • The spelling isseparate (-par-).seperate (-per-) is a common misspelling.

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German

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Adjective

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separate

  1. inflection ofseparat:
    1. strong/mixednominative/accusativefemininesingular
    2. strongnominative/accusativeplural
    3. weaknominative all-gendersingular
    4. weakaccusativefeminine/neutersingular

Interlingua

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Adjective

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separate (not comparable)

  1. separate

Participle

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separate

  1. pastparticiple ofseparar

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /se.paˈra.te/
  • Rhymes:-ate
  • Hyphenation:se‧pa‧rà‧te

Adjective

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separate

  1. feminineplural ofseparato

Noun

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separate

  1. plural ofseparata

Verb

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separate

  1. inflection ofseparare:
    1. second-personpluralpresentindicative
    2. second-personpluralimperative

Latin

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sēparāte

  1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofsēparō

References

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  • “separate”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “separate”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “separate”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Adjective

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separate

  1. definitesingular ofseparat
  2. plural ofseparat

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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separate

  1. definitesingular ofseparat
  2. plural ofseparat

Spanish

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Verb

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separate

  1. second-personsingularvoseoimperative ofseparar combined withte
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