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1. Act as a barrier between; stand between
   - divide
    
2. Force, take, or pull apart
   "He separated the fighting children"
   - disunite, divide, part
    
3. Mark as different
   - distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise [Brit], tell, tell apart
    
4. Separate into parts or portions
   - divide, split, split up, dissever, carve up
    
5. Divide into components or constituents
   "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
    
6. Arrange or order by classes or categories
   - classify, class, sort, assort, sort out
    
7. Make a division or separation
   - divide
    
8. Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
   "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"
   - part, split up, split, break, break up
    
9. Go one's own way; move apart
   "The friends separated after the party"
   - part, split
    
10. Become separated into pieces or fragments
    - break, split up, fall apart, come apart
     
11. Treat differently on the basis of sex or race
    - discriminate, single out
     
12. Come apart
    "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
    - divide, part
     
13. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
    - branch, ramify, fork, furcate

1. Independent; not united or joint
   "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
    
2. Standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
   "a house with a separate garage"
   - freestanding
    
3. Separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
   "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
    
4. Have the connection undone; having become separate
   - disjoined

1. A separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
   - offprint, reprint
    
2. A garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

Derived forms: separated, separating, separates

See also: apart, asunder, detached, discrete, disjoint, disjunct, distinct, divided, fall, independent, individual, isolable, isolated, other, segregated, separated, separately, separateness, separation, separatist, separative, separator, set-apart, single, unaccompanied, unconnected, unintegrated, unshared

Type of: article, categorise [Brit], categorize, change, change integrity, displace, diverge, garment, identify, move, place

Antonym: joint

Encyclopedia: Separate Separate, equal