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S0271400 (sĕp′ə-rāt′)v. sep·a·rat·ed, sep·a·rat·ing, sep·a·rates v.tr.1. a. To set, force, or keep apart: The referee separated the two boxers.b. To put space between; space apart or scatter: small farms that were separated one from another by miles of open land.c. To form a border or barrier between (two areas or groups): A hedge separates the two yards.d. To place in different groups; sort: separate mail by postal zones.2. a. To differentiate or discriminate between; distinguish: a researcher who separated the various ethnic components of the population sample.b. To cause to be distinct or different: His natural talent separates him from all the others in the choir.3. To remove from a mixture or combination; isolate.4. To cause (one person) to stop living with another, or to cause (a couple) to stop living together, often by decree: She was separated from her husband last year. The couple have been separated for a year.5. To terminate a contractual relationship with (someone); discharge.v.intr.1. To come apart; become detached: The lining has separated from the inside of the coat.2. To withdraw or break away: The state threatened to separate from the Union.3. To part company; go away from each other; disperse: The friends separated at the end of the school year.4. To stop living together as a couple: They separated after 10 years of marriage.5. To become divided into components or parts: Oil and water tend to separate.adj. (sĕp′ər-ĭt, sĕp′rĭt)1. Not touching or adjoined; detached: The garage is separate from the house.2. a. Existing or considered as an independent entity: The reference collection is separate from the rest of the library.b. Dissimilar from all others; distinct or individual: a cable made of many separate fibers; two people who hold separate views on the issue.c. often Separate Having undergone schism or estrangement from a parent body: Separate churches.n. (sĕp′ər-ĭt, sĕp′rĭt) Something that is separate or distinct, especially:a. A garment, such as a skirt, jacket, or pair of slacks, that may be purchased separately and worn in various combinations with other garments.b. A stereo component that is purchased separately and connected to other components as part of a system.c. An offprint of an article.

[Middle English separaten, from Latin sēparātus, past participle of sēparāre : sē-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + parāre, to prepare; see perə- in Indo-European roots.]

sep′a·rate·ly adv.sep′a·rate·ness n.Synonyms: separate, divide, part, sever, sunder, divorce
These verbs mean to become or cause to become parted, disconnected, or disunited. Separate applies both to putting apart and to keeping apart: "In the darkness and confusion, the bands of these commanders became separated from each other" (Washington Irving).
Divide implies separation by or as if by cutting or splitting into parts or shares; the term often refers to separation into opposing or hostile groups: We divided the orange into segments."'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free" (Abraham Lincoln).
Part refers most often to the separation of closely associated persons or things: "Because ... nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us" (Emily Brontë).
Sever usually implies abruptness and force: "His head was nearly severed from his body" (H.G. Wells).
Sunder stresses violent tearing or wrenching apart: The country was sundered by civil war. Divorce implies complete separation: "a priest and a soldier, two classes of men circumstantially divorced from the kind and homely ties of life" (Robert Louis Stevenson). See Also Synonyms at distinct.

separate

vb 1. (tr) to act as a barrier between: a range of mountains separates the two countries. 2. to put or force or be put or forced apart 3. to part or be parted from a mass or group 4. (tr) to discriminate between: to separate the men from the boys. 5. to divide or be divided into component parts; sort or be sorted 6. to sever or be severed 7. (Law) (intr) (of a married couple) to cease living together by mutual agreement or after obtaining a decree of judicial separation adj 8. existing or considered independently: a separate problem. 9. disunited or apart 10. set apart from the main body or mass 11. distinct, individual, or particular 12. solitary or withdrawn 13. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (sometimes capital) designating or relating to a Church or similar institution that has ceased to have associations with an original parent organization [C15: from Latin sēparāre, from sē- apart + parāre to obtain] ˈseparately adv ˈseparateness n

sep•a•rate

(v. ˈsɛp əˌreɪt; adj., n. -ər ɪt)

v. -rat•ed, -rat•ing,
adj., n. v.t. 1. to keep apart; divide. 2. to bring or force apart: to separate two fighting boys. 3. to disconnect; dissociate: to separate church and state. 4. to remove from active association: separated from the army. 5. to sort or disperse into individual components. 6. to extract: to separate metal from ore. v.i. 7. to withdraw from an association: to separate from a church. 8. to stop living together but without divorce. 9. to draw or come apart. 10. to become parted from a mass or compound. 11. to take or go in different directions. adj. 12. detached; distinct. 13. existing or maintained independently. 14. not shared; individual: separate checks. 15. (often cap.) no longer associated with a parent organization, as a church. n. 16. Usu., separates. women's garments designed to be worn in various combinations. [1400–50; < Latin sēparātus, past participle of sēparāre=sē- se- + parāre to furnish, produce, obtain, prepare; see -ate¹] sep′a•rate•ly, adv. sep′a•rate•ness, n. usage: separate is often found with the spelling seperate, even in quite respectable publications. Despite this frequency, however, seperate is almost universally considered a misspelling.

separate

Past participle: separated
Gerund: separating

Imperative
separate
separate

Present
I separate
you separate
he/she/it separates
we separate
you separate
they separate

Preterite
I separated
you separated
he/she/it separated
we separated
you separated
they separated

Present Continuous
I am separating
you are separating
he/she/it is separating
we are separating
you are separating
they are separating

Present Perfect
I have separated
you have separated
he/she/it has separated
we have separated
you have separated
they have separated

Past Continuous
I was separating
you were separating
he/she/it was separating
we were separating
you were separating
they were separating

Past Perfect
I had separated
you had separated
he/she/it had separated
we had separated
you had separated
they had separated

Future
I will separate
you will separate
he/she/it will separate
we will separate
you will separate
they will separate

Future Perfect
I will have separated
you will have separated
he/she/it will have separated
we will have separated
you will have separated
they will have separated

Future Continuous
I will be separating
you will be separating
he/she/it will be separating
we will be separating
you will be separating
they will be separating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been separating
you have been separating
he/she/it has been separating
we have been separating
you have been separating
they have been separating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been separating
you will have been separating
he/she/it will have been separating
we will have been separating
you will have been separating
they will have been separating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been separating
you had been separating
he/she/it had been separating
we had been separating
you had been separating
they had been separating

Conditional
I would separate
you would separate
he/she/it would separate
we would separate
you would separate
they would separate

Past Conditional
I would have separated
you would have separated
he/she/it would have separated
we would have separated
you would have separated
they would have separated

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	separate - a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publicationoffprint, reprintarticle - nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
	2.	separate - a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garmentsgarment - an article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk"
Verb	1.	separate - act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"divide
	2.	separate - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"disunite, part, dividecompartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up - separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!"polarise, polarize - cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positionskeep apart, sequestrate, set apart, isolate, sequester - set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"disjoin, disjoint - make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining ofdisarticulate, disjoint - separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it"disconnect - make disconnected, disjoin or unfastencut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"tear - to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars"joint - separate (meat) at the jointgin - separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton ginbreak - separate from a clinch, in boxing; "The referee broke the boxers"sever, break up - set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"rupture, tear, snap, bust - separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
	3.	separate - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, tellknow - be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"identify, place - recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster"discriminate, know apart - recognize or perceive the differencelabel - distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactionslabel - distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atomsex - tell the sex (of young chickens)individualise, individualize - make or mark or treat as individual; "The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone"contrast - put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"severalise, severalize - distinguish or separatecontradistinguish - distinguish by contrasting qualitiesdecouple, dissociate - regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"demarcate - separate clearly, as if by boundariesdiscriminate, single out, separate - treat differently on the basis of sex or racestratify - divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society"
	4.	separate - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"carve up, dissever, divide, split, split upchange integrity - change in physical make-upsubdivide - divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!"initialise, initialize, format - divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!"sectionalise, sectionalize - divide into sections, especially into geographic sections; "sectionalize a country"triangulate - divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard"unitise, unitize - divide (bulk material) and process as unitslot - divide into lots, as of land, for exampleparcel - divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land"sliver, splinter - divide into slivers or splintersparagraph - divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"canton - divide into cantons, of a countryBalkanise, Balkanize - divide a territory into small, hostile states
	5.	separate - divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"change integrity - change in physical make-updecompose, break down, break up - separate (substances) into constituent elements or partsdialyse, dialyze - separate by dialysispeptise, peptize - disperse in a medium into a colloidal statemacerate - separate into constituents by soakingcard, tease - separate the fibers of; "tease wool"filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain - remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"extract - separate (a metal) from an orefractionate - obtain by a fractional processfractionate - separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituentssift, sieve, strain - separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"wash - separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)disperse - separate (light) into spectral rays; "the prosm disperses light"avulse - separate by avulsion
	6.	separate - arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"class, classify, sort out, assort, sortunitise, unitize - separate or classify into units; "The hospital was unitized for efficiency"catalogue, catalog - make an itemized list or catalog of; classify; "He is cataloguing his photographic negatives"isolate - separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to themrefer - think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another; "This plant can be referred to a known species"reclassify - classify anew, change the previous classification; "The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species"size - sort according to sizedichotomise, dichotomize - divide into two opposing groups or kindsstereotype, pigeonhole, stamp - treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"group - arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?"categorise, categorize - place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize"grade - determine the grade of or assign a grade tonumber, count - put into a group; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"
	7.	separate - make a division or separationdividepartition, zone - separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"break - destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match"break up, dissipate, scatter, dispel, disperse - to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"rail off, rail - separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"detach - separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"close off, shut off - isolate or separate; "She was shut off from the friends"
	8.	separate - 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"break up, part, split, split up, breakgive the bounce, give the gate, give the axe - terminate a relationship abruptly; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman"disunify, break apart - break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989"disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce - part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"break with - end a relationship; "China broke with Russia"split up, divorce - get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months"secede, splinter, break away - withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"break away, break - interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns"
	9.	separate - go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"part, splitmove - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"dissipate, scatter, disperse, spread out - move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached";break up - come apart; "the group broke up"diffract - undergo diffraction; "laser light diffracts electrons"
	10.	separate - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"come apart, break, fall apart, split upchange integrity - change in physical make-upburst, break open, split - come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst"puncture - be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured"bust, burst - break open or apart suddenly and forcefully; "The dam burst"smash - break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow; "The window smashed"ladder, run - come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were running"break - destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match"snap, crack - break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped"fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up - break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"crush - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
	11.	separate - treat differently on the basis of sex or racediscriminate, single outisolate, insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"hive off - remove from a group and make separate; "The unit was hived off from its parent company"segregate - separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county"redline - discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhooddisadvantage, disfavor, disfavour - put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me"
	12.	separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"divide, partchange - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"subdivide - form into subdivisions; "The cells subdivided"polarise, polarize - become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situationcalve, break up - release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"chip, chip off, break away, break off, come off - break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"disjoin, disjoint - become separated, disconnected or disjointcome away, come off, detach - come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"segregate - divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"segment - divide or split up; "The cells segmented"reduce - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"section, segment - divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"partition, partition off - divide into parts, pieces, or sections; "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British"discerp, dismember, take apart - divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"gerrymander - divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts
	13.	separate - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"furcate, branch, fork, ramifybranch, ramify - grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"arborise, arborize - branch out like trees; "nerve fibers arborize"twig - branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions"bifurcate - divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated"trifurcate - divide into three; "The road trifurcates at the bridge"diverge - move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here"
Adj.	1.	separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"individual, single - being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"segregated, unintegrated - separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood"other - not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; "today isn't any other day"- the White Queen; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction"unshared - not shareddivided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided"joint - united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"
	2.	separate - standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"freestandingdetached - used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage"
	3.	separate - separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"segregated, unintegrated - separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood"
	4.	separate - have the connection undone; having become separatedisjoinedunconnected - not joined or linked together

separate

adjective1. unconnected, individual, particular, divided, divorced, isolated, detached, disconnected, discrete, unattached, disjointed The two things are separate and mutually irrelevant.
unconnected connected, united, similar, alike, unified, affiliated2. individual, independent, apart, isolated, cut off, distinct, autonomous, set apart We both live our separate lives.
individual joined, connected, interdependentverb1. divide, detach, disconnect, come between, disentangle, keep apart, move apart, disjoin Police moved in to separate the two groups.
divide mix, combine, amalgamate2. come apart, split, break off, come away The nose section separates from the fuselage.
come apart unite, join, link, connect, merge3. sever, detach, disconnect, disengage, break apart, split in two, disunite, divide in two, disassemble, uncouple, bifurcate, disjoin Separate the garlic into cloves.
sever join, link, connect4. split up, part, divorce, break up, part company, get divorced, be estranged, go different ways, stop living together Her parents separated when she was very young.5. distinguish, mark, isolate, single out, set apart, make distinctive, set at variance or at odds What separates terrorism from other acts of violence?
distinguish unite, join, link, connect6. disperse, split (up), scatter, disband Let's separate into smaller groups.7. part, part company, wave goodbye, go your separate ways, say goodbye, say your goodbyes We separated to inspect different areas of the place.

separate

verb1. To become or cause to become apart one from another:break, detach, disjoin, disjoint, disunite, divide, divorce, part, split (up).Idioms: part company, set at odds.2. To make a division into parts, sections, or branches:break up, dissever, divide, part, partition, section, segment.3. To set apart (one kind or type) from others:sift, sort, winnow.4. To distribute into groups according to kinds:assort, categorize, class, classify, group, pigeonhole, sort (out).5. To recognize as being different:differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, know, tell.6. To set apart from a group:close off, cut off, insulate, isolate, seclude, segregate, sequester.7. To terminate a relationship or an association by or as if by leaving one another:break off, break up, part.Informal: split (up).Idioms: call it quits, come to a parting of the ways, part company.8. To release from military duty:demobilize, discharge, muster out.adjective1. Being or related to a distinct entity:discrete, individual, particular, single, singular.2. Alone in a given category:lone, one, only, particular, single, singular, sole, solitary, unique.Idioms: first and last, one and only.3. Distinguished from others by nature or qualities:discrete, distinct, several, various.

Translations

分离的各别的各自的不同的分居

separate

(ˈsepəreit) verb1. (sometimes with into or from) to place, take, keep or force apart. He separated the money into two piles; A policeman tried to separate the men who were fighting.分开2. to go in different directions. We all walked along together and separated at the cross-roads.分手3. (of a husband and wife) to start living apart from each other by choice. （夫妇）分居 (-rət) adjective1. divided; not joined. He sawed the wood into four separate pieces; The garage is separate from the house.分离的2. different or distinct. This happened on two separate occasions; I like to keep my job and my home life separate. 不同的，各别的，各自的 ˈseparateness noun分离ˈseparable adjective that can be separated. 可分开的ˈseparately (-rət-) adverb in a separate way; not together. 分开地ˈseparates (-rəts) noun plural garments (eg jerseys, skirts, trousers, blouses, shirts) that can be worn together in varying combinations. 单件女服ˌsepaˈration noun1. the act of separating or the state or period of being separated. They were together again after a separation of three years. 分居，分离 2. a (legal) arrangement by which a husband and wife remain married but live separately. （法院判定的）夫妻分居 ˈseparatist (-rə-) noun a person who urges separation from an established political state, church etc. 主张独立者，分离主义者 ˈseparatism noun分离主义separate off to make or keep (a part or parts) separate. 分离出，分隔出 separate out to make or keep separate or distinct. 分出，析出 separate up (often with into) to divide. The house has been separated up into different flats.把…分成几份

separate is spelt with -ar- (not -er-).

separate

→ 分离zhCN, 分离的zhCN

With the milk on the side (US)
With the milk separate (UK) → 单独要一份牛奶
Separate checks, please (US)
Separate bills, please (UK) → 请分开结账

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adj unconnected

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adj individual

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verb divide

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verb come apart

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verb sever

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verb split up

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verb disperse

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verb to become or cause to become apart one from another

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verb to make a division into parts, sections, or branches

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verb to set apart (one kind or type) from others

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verb to distribute into groups according to kinds

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verb to recognize as being different

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verb to set apart from a group

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verb to terminate a relationship or an association by or as if by leaving one another

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verb to release from military duty

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adj being or related to a distinct entity

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adj alone in a given category

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adj distinguished from others by nature or qualities

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noun a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

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noun a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

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verb act as a barrier between

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verb force, take, or pull apart

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verb mark as different

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verb separate into parts or portions

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verb divide into components or constituents