separate
- sense 1: act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
- separate divide
- sense 2: force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
- separate disunite divide part
- sense 3: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- distinguish separate differentiate secern secernate severalize severalise tell tell_apart
- sense 4: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
- divide split split_up separate dissever carve_up
- sense 5: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- separate divide part
- sense 6: divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
- separate
- sense 7: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- classify class sort assort sort_out separate
- sense 8: become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
- break separate split_up fall_apart come_apart
- sense 9: make a division or separation
- separate divide
- sense 10: 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"
- separate part split_up split break break_up
- sense 11: go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
- separate part split
- sense 12: treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- discriminate separate single_out
- distinguish separate differentiate secern secernate severalize severalise tell tell_apart
- sense 13: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
- branch ramify fork furcate separate