Definition of separate in English:
- But these qualms are separate from another issue: the value of legal immigration to our nation.
- The program made me realize that no one social-justice issue is separate from the rest.
- Ministers have made it clear that such issues are separate from the seabed and foreshore legislation.
- The bathroom is fit for a king and queen, with his and hers basins, large mirrors framed by driftwood, a separate shower room and toilet and a huge tub also encased in wood.
- Now, as you can see, this is a self-contained room, it's separate from all the others and it's got an air-lock here.
- Downstairs there are two further large bedrooms plus a very large shower room, a separate guest toilet, boiler house and a bespoke wine cellar.
- The Buddha taught three different approaches on three separate occasions.
- They would share the same DNA, but in every other respect, like identical twins, they would be separate and distinct individuals.
- There are two separate and distinct conditions for the exercise of the discretion created by that provision.
- It is about two best friends who are separated when one moves away.
- My fingers slipped through his as though they'd never been separated, cruelly ripped apart by decency and weakness.
- They will be separated from other prisoners and some of the more venerable prisoners who have medical problems will be moved to other facilities, he said…
- Sectors are generally not separated by clear boundaries like those between levels of analysis.
- One of the main disorders occurs when walls separating the heart's four chambers do not form properly.
- But it was an extremely close contest with just six points separating the top five places.
- These ligaments can be sprained, disrupted, detached, or separated, depending on the severity of the injury.
- As you pull the lithosphere apart, as it separates, decompression occurs in the earth's mantle underneath the spreading centre.
- Again to surprise them the rectangle flowed apart, separating into strands and being drawn in upwards one after another, perfectly synchronized.
- For one thing Erica knew his parents were always separating or getting back together.
- After some time together, she separated from her husband with the intention of divorcing him, and moved into separate accommodation.
- She was living in public housing, separated from her husband and living on a lone parent allowance.
- The disease she was suffering from in Jewish society and under Mosaic law rendered her unclean, and she was separated from the services of the temple.
- The facts should be carefully separated from opinion and used in a language those people can emotionally relate to.
- The greenhouse gas had been separated from extracted natural gas and would normally have been released into the atmosphere…
- One of the most obvious is the stage at which the juice is separated from the skins by pressing (before fermentation for white wines, after fermentation for red wines).
- With experience, you are genuinely able to separate yourself from the writer and your current function as a director.
- What both types have in common is an ability to totally separate emotion and sex.
- What qualities separate a top-flight guide writer from one who's merely average?
plural noun(separates ˈsɛp(ə)rəts) Back to top
- Day wear consists of angular shaped separates that include wide-neck jumpers and half-mast trousers.
- We stock mainly separates, skirts and matching jackets, blouses, shirts and sweaters.
- Buy your suiting as separates, the suits sold as sets don't seem to generally be of the same quality.
- Sm-Nd analytical data for two mafic granulite, three sapphirine granulite samples and mineral separates from one sapphirine granulite sample are given in Table 2.
- Mineral and groundmass separates were loaded in 99.99% copper foil packets.
- Mineral separates were prepared from 4-6 kg rock samples.
Late Middle English: from Latin separat- 'disjoined, divided', from the verb separare, from se- 'apart' + parare 'prepare'.
apparatus from early 17th century:
This is a Latin word, from apparare ‘make ready for’, from parare ‘make ready’. Other words going back to parare include disparate (Late Middle English), ‘prepared apart’; pare (Middle English); prepare (Late Middle English) ‘prepare in advance’; and separate (Late Middle English) from se- ‘apart’ and parare.
go one's separate ways
- Leave in a different direction from someone with whom one has just travelled or spent time: we had a superb lunch, lazing around until late afternoon, when we went our separate waysMore example sentences
- Once they were inside, they planned to be back in the entrance at 11:45 pm before they went their separate ways and rode different rides.
- They then go their separate ways, Jake travelling alone to San Sebastian, where he swims, reads, and relaxes after the stressful time in Pamplona.
- When the coffee was done we split up and went our separate ways, Graham to the bookshop for a good browse and me off to the big photographic store at the other end of town.
- 1.1End a romantic, professional, or other relationship: let’s say we agreed to go our separate waysMore example sentences
- They broke up about two weeks later over differences they couldn't get around, and they both went their separate ways to different people.
- When you are told by people who are your brothers and sisters in Christ that they've lost all trust and respect for you I think there's no alternative but to see there's a great difference and go your separate ways.
- We were good friends and didn't want to fall out, so we split the business and went our separate ways.
separate but equal
- US historical Racially segregated but ensuring equal opportunities to all races: the decision terminated the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine that made racially segregated schools legalMore example sentences
- But the proponents of separate but equal may also have been well-intentioned.
- By 1945, even as the Urban League and the NAACP were arguing in the circuit court that the city had an obligation to open another segregated school, the separate but equal strategy had worn thin.
- One of the most active courts in history, the Warren court overturned the notion of separate but equal public education and ordered school desegregation.
separate the men from the boys
- see man.
separate the sheep from the goats
- Divide people or things into superior and inferior groups.[With biblical allusion to Matt. 25:33]Example sentences
- British manners and social codes, as many a bemused American expatriate has discovered, are almost impenetrably arcane, their subtlety and complexity aimed precisely at separating the sheep from the goats in class terms.
- Sarah has obviously discovered success is a very good way of separating the sheep from the goats.
- After more than two decades of judging I have found no way to separate the sheep from the goats, except by taking a close look at each case.
separate the wheat from the chaff
- see chaff1.
- Example sentences
- Because their patriotism was often expressed collectively, many groups remained distinct and conscious of their identity and separateness.
- Cut off by the Delaware River on the northeast and the bay on the west, the people developed a spirit of separateness and self-conscious identity.
- Children are left uninterrupted, undistracted, unbothered; their distinctness and separateness are respected.
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- It typically takes three times as much separative work to enrich uranium from its natural state to 5 percent LEU than it does to enrich LEU to 90 percent HEU.
- As previously noted, he was however of the view that the ‘trumpet’ shape might even enhance the normal separative effect of the conventional frusto-conical shape.
- Thus the total estimated time for all procedures involving spectral-spatial images and separative ESR-CT should be on the order of several hours.
- Example sentences
- Minerals were separated with a magnetic separator and further separation of micas was carried out using a vibrating table and handpicking in an attempt to achieve maximum purity.
- The rubble-crushing system includes an impact crusher plant, conveyors, an electromagnetic separator, and a screen plant.
- Units must ensure that training for maintenance operations in hot weather includes fuel system troubleshooting and diagnosis, including examination of pumps, injectors, fuel lines, filters, and separators.
- Example sentences
- Each sealed root was immersed in a solution and then hung by a thread in a separatory funnel so that the root was suspended in air.
- One stir plate is pretty much like another, ditto the separatory funnels (which haven't changed in over a century,) flasks, vacuum manifolds, etc.
- The reaction mixture was then quantitatively transferred to a separatory funnel using methylene chloride.
Words that rhyme with separateexasperate • temperate • desperate
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