1. to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
2. to put, bring, or force apart; part: to separate two fighting boys.
3. to set apart; disconnect; dissociate: to separate church and state.
4. to remove or sever from association, service, etc., especially legally or formally: He was separated from the army right after V-E Day.
5. to sort, part, divide, or disperse (an assemblage, mass, compound, etc.), as into individual units, components, or elements.
6. to take by parting or dividing; extract (usually followed by from or out): to separate metal from ore.
7. to write (the variables of a differential equation) in a form in which the differentials of the independent and dependent variables are, respectively, functions of these variables alone: We can separate the variables to solve the equation.

8. to part company; withdraw from personal association (often followed by from): to separate from a church.
9. (of a married pair) to stop living together but without getting a divorce.
10. to draw or come apart; become divided, disconnected, or detached.
11. to become parted from a mass or compound: Cream separates from milk.
12. to take or go in different directions: We have to separate at the crossroad.

13. detached, disconnected, or disjoined.
14. unconnected; distinct; unique: two separate questions.
15. being or standing apart; distant or dispersed: two separate houses;The desert has widely separate oases.
16. existing or maintained independently: separate organizations.
17. individual or particular: each separate item.
18. not shared; individual or private: separate checks;separate rooms.
19. noting or relating to a church or other organization no longer associated with the original or parent organization.

20. women's outer garments that may be worn in combination with a variety of others to make different ensembles, as matching and contrasting blouses, skirts, and sweaters.
21. offprint (def. 1).
22. a bibliographical unit, as an article, chapter, or other portion of a larger work, printed from the same type but issued separately, sometimes with additional pages.

1. to act as a barrier between
2. to put or force or be put or forced apart
3. to part or be parted from a mass or group
4. to discriminate between
5. to divide or be divided into component parts; sort or be sorted
6. to sever or be severed
7. (of a married couple) to cease living together by mutual agreement or after obtaining a decree of judicial separation

8. existing or considered independently
9. disunited or apart
10. set apart from the main body or mass
11. distinct, individual, or particular
12. solitary or withdrawn
13. designating or relating to a Church or similar institution that has ceased to have associations with an original parent organization

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