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Nouns (4)

separate

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

offprint, reprint, separate

n. a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

Verbs (29)

separate

v. divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"

separate, divide

v. act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"

separate, divide

v. make a division or separation

discriminate, separate, single out

v. treat differently on the basis of sex or race

separate, part, split

v. go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"

separate, part, split up, split, break, break up

v. 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"

divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up

v. separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate

v. arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

Adverbs (0)

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Adjectives (10)

separate

adj. separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"

separate

adj. independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"

freestanding, separate

adj. standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"

separate, separated

adj. not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"

separate, distinct

adj. constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"

disjoined, separate

adj. have the connection undone; having become separate

Fuzzynyms (88)

reproduction, reproductive memory

n. recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall

ditto mark, ditto

n. a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated

duplicate, duplication

n. a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files"

choose, take, select, pick out

v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"

sequester

v. undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"

space

v. place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates"

arrange, set up

v. put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"

organize, organise, coordinate

v. bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?"

separate, disunite, divide, part

v. force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

estrange

v. remove from customary environment or associations; "years of boarding school estranged the child from her home"

separate, disunite, divide, part

v. force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise

v. break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

organize, organise, coordinate

v. bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?"

arrange, set up, put, order

v. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

rate, rank, range, order, grade, place

v. assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

codify

v. organize into a code or system, such as a body of law; "Hammurabi codified the laws"

measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value

v. evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"; "access all the factors when taking a risk"

calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast

v. judge to be probable

arrange, set up

v. put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"

label

v. distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom

label

v. distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions

different

adj. distinct or separate; "each interviewed different members of the community"

free

adj. able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"

autonomous

adj. existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"

unbridled, unchecked, uncurbed, ungoverned

adj. not restrained or controlled; "unbridled rage"; "an unchecked temper"; "ungoverned rage"

uninhibited

adj. not inhibited or restrained; "uninhibited exuberance"

unhampered, unhindered

adj. not slowed or blocked or interfered with; "an outlet for healthy and unhampered action"; "a priest unhampered by scruple"; "the new stock market was unhampered by tradition"

different

adj. unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one"

assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry(a)

adj. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards

discrete, distinct

adj. constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"

different

adj. distinct or separate; "each interviewed different members of the community"

different

disjunctive

adj. serving or tending to divide or separate

independent, main(a)

adj. (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"

distinct

adj. easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined; "a distinct flavor"; "a distinct odor of turpentine"; "a distinct outline"; "the ship appeared as a distinct silhouette"; "distinct fingerprints"

peculiar(a)

adj. characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney

severed, cut off

adj. detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"

unrelated

adj. lacking a logical or causal relation

Synonyms (65)

discriminate, know apart

v. recognize or perceive the difference

carve, cut up

v. cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"

isolated, quarantined

adj. under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"

white, lily-white

adj. restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"

sequestered

adj. kept separate and secluded; "a sequestered jury"

semidetached

adj. attached on one side only; "a semidetached house"

bicameral, two-chambered

adj. consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish"

bifid

adj. divided into two lobes; "a bifid petal"

bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy

adj. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"

bifurcated

adj. divided into or made up of two parts; "socially bifurcated populations"

bilocular, biloculate

adj. divided into or containing two cells or chambers; "having a bilocular capsule"

bipartite, parted, dissected

adj. used esp. of leaves

chambered

adj. having compartmental chambers; "a spiral chambered seashell"

split, rent, cleft

adj. being divided or separated; "split between love and hate"

cloven, bisulcate

adj. (used of hooves) split, divided; "bisulcate hoof"

compartmental, compartmentalized, compartmentalised

adj. divided up into compartments or categories; "most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized"

dichotomous

adj. divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications

disjointed

adj. taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl"

disjunct

adj. having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects

disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split

adj. having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group"

episodic

adj. of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"

segmental

adj. divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds

mullioned

adj. of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone; "mullioned windows"

partitioned, partitioned off

adj. divided by partitions

pronged, tined

adj. having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork"

sectional, sectioned

adj. consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa"; "sectioned plates"

split, in disagreement

adj. "opinions are divided"

subdivided

adj. divided again after a first division, e.g. of a tract of land, divided into lots

torn

adj. disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

idiosyncratic

adj. peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting"

individualist, individualistic

adj. marked by or expressing individuality; "an individualistic way of dressing"

particular(a)

adj. providing specific details or circumstances; "a particular description of the room"

several(a)

adj. (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many; "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident"

singular

adj. being a single and separate person or thing; "can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"; "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"-William James

asternal

adj. not connected to the sternum or breastbone; "asternal ribs"

unattached

adj. not fastened together

uncoupled

adj. having the coupling undone; "the uncoupled caboose rolled down the incline"

Antonyms (46)

band, banding, stripe

n. an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material

link, join, unite, connect

v. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms"

bridge, bridge over

v. connect or reduce the distance between

desegregate, integrate, mix

v. open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated"

unify, unite, merge

v. become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge"

unite, unify

v. act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief

league

v. unite to form a league

pair, pair off, partner off, couple

v. form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"

join

v. come into the company of; "She joined him for a drink"

blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge

v. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"

melt, run, melt down

v. reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"

joint

adj. involving both houses of a legislature; "a joint session of Congress"

corporate, collective

adj. done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good"

collective

adj. forming a whole or aggregate

dependent, subordinate

adj. (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"

coupled, joined, linked

adj. connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks

separate

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