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separates
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"articles of (women's) clothing that may be worn in various combinations," 1945, from separate (adj.). As a noun, separate is attested from 1610s in the sense "separatist."
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Separates (1978) is the second album released by the English punk band 999 . Separates was released in America under the title High Energy Plan , with a different cover and slightly altered track listing; on High Energy Plan , "Tulse Hill Night" and "Out ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another clearly discernible unconformity separates the Grand Canyon series from the overlying pebbly brown Tapeats Sandstone. ▪ It separates me from my brothers.
Usage examples of separates.
No, culture is primarily nothing but an alienating force that necessarily and nastily separates humans from nature and me from myself.
Language, the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind, soon discriminated the sectaries of the East, by a peculiar and perpetual badge, which abolished the means of intercourse and the hope of reconciliation.
But beginning with the Great Crime of the Neolithic farming cultures (and here we go), which differentiated the tame and the wild, subsequent history has been one long slide into more and more misery and mistake, all driven by humanity's attempts to overcome the basic default that separates self and other.
When he had come thither, greater forces of the Britons had already assembled at that place, the chief command and management of the war having been intrusted to Cassivellaunus, whose territories a river, which is called the Thames, separates, from the maritime states at about eighty miles from the sea.
When they came to the river Loire, which separates the Bituriges from the Aedui, they delayed a few days there, and, not daring to pass the river, return home, and send back word to the lieutenants that they had returned through fear of the treachery of the Bituriges, who, they ascertained, had formed this design, that if the Aedui should cross the river, the Bituriges on the one side, and the Arverni on the other, should surround them.
Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers first flew, is on the barrier island that separates the shallow sound from the ocean.
There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.
And if infants are delivered from this I bondage of sin by the Redeemer’s grace, they can suffer only this death which separates soul and body.
For just as the affliction of the city of God, such as never was before, which is expected to take place under Antichrist, was signified by Abraham’s horror of great darkness about the going down of the sun, that is, when the end of the world draws nigh,-so at the going down of the sun, that is, at the very end of the world, there is signified by that fire the day of judgment, which separates the carnal who are to be saved by fire from those who are to be condemned in the fire.
It is not then from the great river of Egypt, that is, the Nile, but from a small one which separates Egypt from Palestine, where the city of Rhinocorura is.
As to the different parts of the internal mechanism, the box destined to contain the two millstones, the fixed stone and the moving stone, the hopper, a sort of large square trough, wide at the top, narrow at the bottom, which would allow the grain to fall on the stones, the oscillating spout intended to regulate the passing of the grain, and lastly the bolting machine, which by the operation of sifting, separates the bran from the flour, were made without difficulty.