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Separator   Listen
noun
Separator  n.  One who, or that which, separates. Specifically:
(a)
(Steam Boilers) A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it.
(b)
(Mining) An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
(c)
(Weaving) An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.






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"Separator" Quotes from Famous Books



... worse'n poison, an' I can't milk more'n ten cows, workin twenty-four-hour shifts. I'll try an' scare up some of the other boys that can milk." But he shook his head and looked regretfully at the pick-handle. "Good milkers is scarce as gold eggs," he muttered. "And the separator men has quit ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

... black blasting powder are graded by a separator, similar to those used in powder mills, but of reduced size. It consists of an inclined wooden box, with slots on the sides to carry a series of screens, and a vertical conduit at the end for carrying off the grains as they are screened into ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 • Herbert M. Wilson

... at the splendidly equipped steam-factories, and we all know that Danish butter is renowned for its excellence. When the milk is weighed and tested it runs into a large receiver, thence to the separator; from there the cream flows into the scalder, and pours over the ice frame in a rich cool stream ...
— Denmark • M. Pearson Thomson

... the lesson that we should recognise the mercy and wisdom of the ministry of Death the separator, and should tread with patience the lonely road, do calmly the day's work, and tarry till He comes, though those that stood beside us be gone? We may look forward with the assurance that 'God keeps a niche in heaven to hide our idols'; and 'albeit ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren

... full, and not as the world gives. Do we want love? He gathers us to His heart, in which 'there is no variableness, neither shadow cast by turning,' and binds us to Himself by bonds that death, the separator, vainly attempts to untie, and which no unworthiness, ingratitude or coldness of ours will ever be able to unloose. Do we want wisdom? He will dwell with us as our light. Do our hearts yearn for companionship? ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren


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