separate
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(satellite adjective) individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child" |
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Synonyms: single |
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(verb) divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" |
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Related Words: avulse, break up, card, change integrity, decompose, dialyse, dialyze, extract, filter, filter out, filtrate, fractionate, peptize, precipitate, separate out, sieve, sift, strain, tease, wash, winnow |
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(verb) force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
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Synonyms: disunite, divide, part |
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Related Words: break, break up, bust, compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut, cut up, disarticulate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, displace, gin, isolate, keep apart, move, polarize, rupture, sequester, sequestrate, set apart, sever, snap, tear |
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(verb) come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
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Synonyms: divide, part |
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Related Words: break away, break off, break up, calve, change, chip, chip off, come away, come off, detach, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, gerrymander, partition, partition off, polarize, reduce, section, segment, take apart |
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(satellite adjective) separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" |
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(verb) go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" |
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Synonyms: part, split |
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Related Words: break up, diffract, disperse, dissipate, move, scatter, spread out |
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(verb) make a division or separation |
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Synonyms: divide |
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Related Words: break, break up, close off, detach, dispel, disperse, dissipate, partition, rope off, scatter, shut off, subdivide, zone |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up |
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Related Words: break, break apart, break away, break with, disjoint, dissassociate, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divorce, secede, splinter, split up |
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(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between: "The mountain range divides the two countries" |
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Synonyms: divide |
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(adjective) independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" |
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Antonyms: joint |
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(noun) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments |
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Related Words: garment |
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(satellite adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" |
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Synonyms: freestanding |
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(verb) become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
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Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up |
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Related Words: break open, break up, burst, bust, change integrity, crack, crush, fragment, fragmentize, ladder, puncture, run, snap, split |
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(verb) mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
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Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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Related Words: contradistinguish, contrast, demarcate, discriminate, dissociate, identify, individualize, know, know apart, label, place, separate, severalize, sex, single out, stratify |
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(satellite adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate |
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Synonyms: disjoined |
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(verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race |
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Synonyms: discriminate, single out |
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Related Words: differentiate, disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, distinguish, insulate, isolate, redline, secern, secernate, segregate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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(satellite adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" |
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Synonyms: individual, single |
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(satellite adjective) not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated" |
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Synonyms: apart, separated |
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(noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication |
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Synonyms: offprint, reprint |
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Related Words: article |
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(verb) divide into two or more branches; "The road forks" |
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Synonyms: branch, fork, ramify |
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Related Words: arborise, arborize, bifurcate, diverge, twig |
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(verb) separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" |
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Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up |
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Related Words: balkanize, break, canton, change integrity, format, initialize, lot, paragraph, parcel, sliver, splinter, triangulate, unitize |
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(verb) arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" |
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Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out |
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Related Words: catalog, catalogue, categorize, count, dichotomize, grade, group, number, pigeonhole, reclassify, refer, size, stamp, stereotype |
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