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Separated   /sˈɛpərˌeɪtəd/  /sˈɛpərˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Separated

adjective
1.
Being or feeling set or kept apart from others.  Synonyms: detached, isolated, set-apart.  "Could not remain the isolated figure he had been" , "Thought of herself as alone and separated from the others" , "Had a set-apart feeling"
2.
Spaced apart.  Synonym: spaced.
3.
Separated at the joint.  Synonyms: disjointed, dislocated.  "A separated shoulder"
4.
No longer connected or joined.  Synonym: detached.  "On one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached" , "The separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"



Separate

verb
(past & past part. separated; pres. part. separating)
1.
Act as a barrier between; stand between.  Synonym: divide.
2.
Force, take, or pull apart.  Synonyms: disunite, divide, part.  "Moses parted the Red Sea"
3.
4.
Separate into parts or portions.  Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up.  "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"  Antonym: unite.
5.
Divide into components or constituents.
6.
Arrange or order by classes or categories.  Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out.
7.
Make a division or separation.  Synonym: divide.
8.
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.  Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up.  "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" , "My friend and I split up"
9.
Go one's own way; move apart.  Synonyms: part, split.
10.
Become separated into pieces or fragments.  Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up.  "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
11.
Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.  Synonyms: discriminate, single out.
12.
Come apart.  Synonyms: divide, part.
13.
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.  Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify.



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"Separated" Quotes from Famous Books



... the front three toes are. The inner two are really fast together, so they cannot be separated far and the hind toe is very large. Last of all, note that the tracks go two and two, because the Sparrow goes "hop hop, hop." These things mean that the Sparrow is really a tree bird; and you will see that, though ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson

... streets blindly brooding, he now had eyes and thoughts for a new external world. How the many toiling people lived, and loved, and died; how wonderful it was to consider the various trainings of eye and hand, the nice distinctions of sight and touch, that separated them into classes of workers, and even into classes of workers at subdivisions of one complete whole which combined their many intelligences and forces, though of itself but some cheap object of use or ornament in ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens

... commercial relations were maintained. At the same time, just as there had been an invisible but none the less real dividing line between the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire and the west of Europe, so with the adoption of the Greek Church, Russia inherited the oriental type and principles which separated that form of Christianity from that of Rome. Thus the slight split grew gradually into a schism, as Western Europe progressed with every evolution of the Roman Church, whereas ...
— The Story of Russia • R. Van Bergen

... two clergymen consulted together, and determined that it was useless to watch any longer for that night, but that they would meet on some other, when perhaps it might please his ghostship to appear. Accordingly, with a few words of leave-taking, they separated, Mr Mills for the rectory, and Mr Dodge, by a short ride across the moor, which shortened his journey by half a mile, ...
— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various

... them down at night was out of the question too; for their strongest point was night fighting, which is much fuller of risks and chances than day battles are. Besides, there was the chance of missing them and losing the best position between them and their base. So Jellicoe and Beatty separated again and steamed, parallel to each other, south-south-east to within a hundred miles of the German coast. They could not possibly cover more than a quarter of the whole way into the Danish and German coasts; and so most of the Germans ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood


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