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a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" abstracted, apart(p), asunder(p), detached, discrete, disjoint, disjunct, isolable separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" segregated individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child" individual act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" 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" make a division or separation go one''s own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" unshared have the connection undone; having become separate unconnected become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" detached mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" treat differently on the basis of sex or race not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated" divided a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" |
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