1.  separate(n = noun.communication) offprint, reprint - a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication;
is a kind of article

2.  separate(n = noun.artifact) - a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments;
is a kind of garment

1.  separate(v = verb.stative) divide - act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

2.  separate(v = verb.contact) disunite, divide, part - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
is one way to displace, move
Derived form noun separation₉
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody

3.  separate(v = verb.cognition) differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
is one way to identify, place
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something from somebody

4.  separate(v = verb.social) carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
is one way to change integrity
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

5.  separate(v = verb.contact) - divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
is one way to change integrity
Derived forms noun separation₄, noun separator₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

6.  separate(v = verb.cognition) assort, class, classify, sort, sort out - arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
is one way to categorise, categorize
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

7.  separate(v = verb.motion) divide - make a division or separation;
Derived form adjective separative₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

8.  separate(v = verb.social) break, break up, part, split, split up - 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"
Derived forms noun separation₈, noun separatist₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s

9.  separate(v = verb.motion) part, split - go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
is one way to move
Derived form noun separation₅
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s

10.  separate(v = verb.change) break, come apart, fall apart, split up - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
is one way to change integrity
Sample sentences: Something ----s

11.  separate(v = verb.social) discriminate, single out - treat differently on the basis of sex or race;
is one way to differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart
Derived form adjective separative₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

12.  separate(v = verb.contact) divide, part - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
is one way to change
Derived form noun separation₂
Sample sentences: Something ----s

13.  separate(v = verb.change) branch, fork, furcate, ramify - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
is one way to diverge
Sample sentences: Something ----s

1.  separate(a = adj.all) - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
Antonym: joint
Derived form noun separateness₁

2.  separate(s = adj.all) freestanding - standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"

3.  separate(s = adj.all) - separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
Derived forms noun separateness₃, noun separateness₁

4.  separate(s = adj.all) disjoined - have the connection undone; having become separate;

1.  To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. [1913 Webster]
"From the fine gold I separate the alloy." [1913 Webster]
"Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me." [1913 Webster]
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" [1913 Webster]

2.  To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa. [1913 Webster]

3.  To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service. [1913 Webster]
"Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem." [1913 Webster]

   To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated. [1913 Webster]

1.  Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. [1913 Webster]
"Him that was separate from his brethren." [1913 Webster]

2.  Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected. [1913 Webster]
"For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere." [1913 Webster]

3.  Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls. [1913 Webster]

separate, adj., n., & v.
--adj. (often foll. by from) forming a unit that is or may be regarded as apart or by itself; physically disconnected, distinct, or individual (living in separate rooms; the two questions are essentially separate).
--n.
1 (in pl.) separate articles of clothing suitable for wearing together in various combinations.
2 an offprint.
--v.
1 tr. make separate, sever, disunite.
2 tr. prevent union or contact of.
3 intr. go different ways, disperse.
4 intr. cease to live together as a married couple.
5 intr. (foll. by from) secede.
6 tr. a divide or sort (milk, ore, fruit, light, etc.) into constituent parts or sizes. b (often foll. by out) extract or remove (an ingredient, waste product, etc.) by such a process for use or rejection.
7 tr. US discharge, dismiss.

Derivative:
separately adv. separateness n. separative adj. separatory adj.

Etymology:
L separare separat- (as SE-, parare make ready)

VB  be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave, be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

N  disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

VB  be excluded from, exclude, bar, leave out, shut out, bar out, reject, repudiate, blackball, lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside, relegate, segregate, throw overboard, strike off, strike out, neglect, banish, separate, pass over, omit, garble, eliminate, weed, winnow, be secluded, live secluded, keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background, keep snug, shut oneself up, deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux, retire, retire from the world, take the veil, abandon, sport one's oak, cut, cut dead, refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge, look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon, repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate, banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round, depopulate, dispeople, unpeople.

VB  bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize, go halves, divide with, separate, fork, bifurcate, branch off, out, ramify.

VB  apportion, divide, distribute, administer, dispense, billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete, portion out, parcel out, dole out, deal, carve, allocate, ration, ration out, assign, separate, partition, assign, appropriate, appoint, come in for one's share.

VB  live separate, separate, divorce, disespouse, put away, wear the horns.

VB  discriminate, distinguish, severalize, recognize, match, identify, separate, draw the line, sift, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat, separate the men from the boys, split hairs, draw a fine line, nitpick, quibble, estimate, know which is which, know what is what, know 'a hawk from a handsaw', take into account, take into consideration, give due weight to, allow due weight to, weigh carefully.

separate off, separate out