Definition of Separate

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Separate

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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

To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

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

Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.

Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

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Separate Quotations

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
Rodney Dangerfield

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Separate Translations

separate in Afrikaans is afsonderlik
separate in Dutch is afgezonderd, afzonderlijk
separate in Finnish is eri, jakaa
separate in German is scheiden, abgesondert
separate in Italian is separato, separato, separare
separate in Latin is abiungo, scindo, singuli, singulus
separate in Portuguese is separado, dividir
separate in Spanish is arredrar, separado, especial, separar, prescindir

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