separate /sepˈə-rāt/

1. To divide
2. To part
3. To sunder
4. To sever
5. To disconnect
6. To disunite
7. To remove
8. To isolate
9. To keep apart
10. To seclude
11. To set apart for a purpose
12. To exclude from cohabitation, esp by judicial decree
13. To remove cream from, using a separator

1. To part
2. To cease to live together as a (esp married) couple
3. To withdraw
4. To secede
5. To come out of combination or contact
6. To become disunited

1. Separated
2. Divided
3. Apart from another
4. Distinct

1. An offprint
2. (in pl) items of dress, eg blouse, skirt, etc, forming separate parts of an outfit

separability /-ə-bilˈi-ti/ noun

sepˈarable adjective

That may be separated or disjoined

sepˈarableness noun

sepˈarably adverb

sepˈarately adverb

sepˈarateness noun

separāˈtion noun

1. The act of separating or disjoining
2. The state of being separate
3. Disunion
4. A place or line where there is a division
5. A gap or interval that separates
6. Chemical analysis
7. Cessation of cohabitation by agreement or judicial decree, without a formal dissolution of the marriage tie

sepˈaratism /-ə-tizm/ or separāˈtionism noun

sepˈaratist noun

1. A person who withdraws or advocates separation from an established church, federation, organization, etc (also separāˈtionist)
2. A dissenter
3. An Independent (historical)
4. (by Unionists) a person who advocates Home Rule
5. A believer in separate authorship of parts, esp of the Homeric poems

Of or relating to separatism or separatists

sepˈarative /-ə-tiv/ adjective

Tending to separate

sepˈarātor noun

1. A person who or thing which separates
2. A machine for separating cream from milk by whirling

separatory /sepˈər-ə-tər-i/ noun

An instrument for separating

Having the function of separating

sepˈarātrix noun (pl separātriˈcēs)

A separating line, solidus

separāˈtum noun

A separate offprint

separate development noun

Segregation of different racial groups, each supposed to progress in its own way

separate maintenance noun

A provision made by a husband for his separated wife

separate school noun

(in Canada) a school for pupils belonging to a religious minority

separation allowance noun

A government allowance to a serviceman's wife and dependants

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• aprication
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• apricock
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• apricot
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• April-fish
• April fool
• atonements
• atoner
• atoners
• atones
• at one's command
• at one's convenience
• at one's disposal
• at one's earliest convenience
• at one's elbow
• at one's finger-ends
• at one's finger's-ends
• at one's fingertips
• at one's leisure
• at one's wit's end
• at one time