separate
分开,独立的,独立,分开的
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sep·a·rat·ed, sep·a·rat·ing.
- : to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- : to put, bring, or force apart; part: to separate two fighting boys.
- : to set apart; disconnect; dissociate: to separate church and state.
- : to remove or sever from association, service, etc., especially legally or formally: He was separated from the army right after V-E Day.
- : to sort, part, divide, or disperse, as into individual units, components, or elements.
- : to take by parting or dividing; extract: to separate metal from ore.
- : Mathematics. to write in a form in which the differentials of the independent and dependent variables are, respectively, functions of these variables alone: We can separate the variables to solve the equation.Compare separation of variables.
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sep·a·rat·ed, sep·a·rat·ing.
- : to part company; withdraw from personal association: to separate from a church.
- : to stop living together but without getting a divorce.
- : to draw or come apart; become divided, disconnected, or detached.
- : to become parted from a mass or compound: Cream separates from milk.
- : to take or go in different directions: We have to separate at the crossroad.
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- : detached, disconnected, or disjoined.
- : unconnected; distinct; unique: two separate questions.
- : being or standing apart; distant or dispersed: two separate houses; The desert has widely separate oases.
- : existing or maintained independently: separate organizations.
- : individual or particular: each separate item.
- : not shared; individual or private: separate checks; separate rooms.
- : noting or pertaining to a church or other organization no longer associated with the original or parent organization.
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- : Usually separates. women's outer garments that may be worn in combination with a variety of others to make different ensembles, as matching and contrasting blouses, skirts, and sweaters.
- : offprint.
- : a bibliographical unit, as an article, chapter, or other portion of a larger work, printed from the same type but issued separately, sometimes with additional pages.
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Examples
We could have looped back, but instead followed a separate trail to Pounds Hollow Lake.
Here again, that only serves to further separate the haves from the have-nots.
The two were separated, and Ujiri eventually joined the team and did a TV interview.
At a time when we need whatever unity we can find and sports might be one place to find it, the anthem could be a two-minute span when we agree that we’re all Americans, that we should be together rather than separate.
The result was the Ignite, a separate team of elite prospects, surrounded by handpicked veterans, that has no affiliation with an NBA franchise.
There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.
My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.
We separate the search for justice from the search for truth at our peril.
“I never felt that culture and the arts were separate from politics,” he says.
“She was hot-headed, had her own way of doing things,” Gill said—and so, he left to form a separate militia group.
It was an error not to separate borrowing entirely from monetary issues.
He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.
By a device resorted to in each separate case to help make a more vivid First Impression.
It has one separate room where poor Spanish women are treated, which generally has from twelve to twenty women.
Therefore, every piece had its own separate voice in exact proportion to the amount of trouble spent upon it.