separate
See also: sepárate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sēparātus, perfect passive participle of sēparāre (“to separate”), from sē (“apart”) + parō (“prepare”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”). Displaced Middle English scheden, from Old English scēadan (whence English shed).
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- (adjective, noun)
- (verb)
- Hyphenation: sep‧a‧rate
- Rhymes: -ɛpəɹeɪt
Adjective edit
separate (not comparable)
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
- I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
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apart from; not connected to
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followed by "from": not together with
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Verb edit
separate (third-person singular simple present separates, present participle separating, simple past and past participle separated)
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
- Synonyms: partition, split; see also Thesaurus:divide
- Separate the articles from the headings.
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disjoin
- 1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry:
- From the fine gold I separate the allay [alloy].
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 8:35:
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
- (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”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- 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 that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- Synonyms: break down, come apart, disintegrate, fall apart
- The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
- (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
- Synonyms: earmark, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:2:
- Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Alternative forms edit
- seperate (archaic or misspelling)
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Translations edit
to divide into separate parts
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to disunite, disconnect
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to cause to be separate
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to divide itself
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Noun edit
separate (plural separates)
- (usually in the plural) 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”, in the Guardian[1]:
- French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
Usage notes edit
- The spelling is separate (-par-). seperate (-per-) is a common misspelling.
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- inflection of separat:
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- inflection of separare:
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /seː.paˈraː.te/, [s̠eːpäˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se.paˈra.te/, [sepäˈräːt̪e]
Verb edit
sēparāte
References edit
- “separate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “separate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- separate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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- second-person singular voseo imperative of separar combined with te