英语词汇“separation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	separation
释义	sep·a·ra·tion \ˌsepəˈrāshən\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English separacion, from Middle French separation, from Latin separation-, separatio, from separatus (past participle of separare to separate) + -ion-, -io -ion — more at separate 1. a. : an act or instance of dividing : detachment, dispersal < separation of church and state > < shipment of fragile or delicate articles … requires separation and cushioning of items — Export Packing > < families … would face separation if they should avail themselves of the provisions of the Refugee Relief Act — D.D.Eisenhower > b. : arrangement of mail according to destination : sorting < after cancellation … trundled the letters on wheeled trays to the next process, separation — National Geographic > c. : burble 3 d. : separateness, segregation < courts and legislature work in separation and aloofness — B.N.Cardozo > < we can no longer risk letting any large section of the human race live in separation, cut off from … the rest — I.A.Richards > e. : dissimilarity of character : difference, distinction < should not give the impression that there is … no great separation between the ends of Communism and those of the West — D.H.Gillis > 2. a. : an act or instance of parting company < after the separation of the three boats … in the storm — W.J.Ghent > b. (1) : withdrawal from a parent body : secession, schism < personally loyal though he was … believed that separation was inevitable — T.M.Spaulding > (2) usually capitalized : a body of dissenters especially from an established church : separatists < one of the greatest of the early leaders of the Separation — George Willison > 3. : isolation from a mixture : extraction < separation of flour from bran by bolting > 4. a. (1) : cessation of cohabitation between husband and wife by mutual agreement; especially : judicial separation (2) canon law : annulment b. : termination of a contractual relationship : resignation, discharge < separation from the service > < separation from employment > < a serious breach of accepted standards of deportment … may be punished by loss of social privileges, probation, or separation — College of William & Mary Cat. > 5. a. : a point or line of division : demarcation < recommend that there be a clear line of separation — J.P.Colbert > b. : a cause or means of dividing : barrier, partition; specifically : a compartment in a mail-sorting case < sorted 100 cards to 53 separations at the rate of 50 per minute — Postal Service News > c. : an intervening space : gap, interval < the separation between the spokes of a wheel > d. : the distance between the two parts of an originally continuous surface (as the top of a stratum) after dislocation by faulting — compare normal horizontal separation, perpendicular separation 6. : a method or result of dividing: as a. : the propagation of plants by parts which are naturally or easily removed from the parent plant (as gladiolus corms, lily bulbels) — compare division 20 b. : color separation c. : a batch of sorted mail
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