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separating

/verb sep-uh-reyt; adjective, noun sep-er-it/US // verb ˈsɛp əˌreɪt; adjective, noun ˈsɛp ər ɪt //

分离,分离的,分开,分开的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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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.
v.无主动词 verb
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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.
adj.形容词 adjective
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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.
n.名词 noun
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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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbremove something from group; keep or set apart
verbisolate, segregate
verbpart company in a romantic

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.