I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distinct/separate category (=clearly different from others)
▪ Animals fall into distinct categories.
a separate incident
▪ Young men were killed in two separate incidents on the same day.
a separate occasion
▪ I had heard this story on at least four separate occasions.
separate compartments
▪ The bag is divided into separate compartments.
separate entity
▪ The mind exists as a separate entity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
quite
▪ Three quite separate elements may be involved, all or any of which may be present at any one time.
▪ In order to make clear what this means, it may be helpful to take two, quite separate, examples.
▪ We never considered that they might be quite separate.
▪ The two places were quite separate.
▪ It is important to remember that a classic type of restraint of trade clause frequently mentions two quite separate time periods.
▪ That conference was also memorable, of course, for other quite separate reasons, as I would like now to explain.
▪ They even partitioned the archipelago into three quite separate military commands.
▪ Katherine Lundy ran two similar, but quite separate, operations.
■ NOUN
company
▪ In 1686 they declared war on him in order to establish a separate company state from which they could trade.
▪ Under the old structure, the business units operated almost like separate companies, each with their own marketing and engineering organization.
▪ The construction materials division, which employs more than 4,200 people, is to be floated as a separate company.
▪ Spry Inc has reorganised, dividing its system integration and software development operations into two separate companies.
▪ That group will most likely be a separate company, or they may be an autonomous subsidiary.
▪ Mr Reuter struggles on without his support to weld a group of large, still separate companies into a coherent whole.
▪ It is also willing to transfer another $ 450 million of expenditure to a separate company.
compartment
▪ This is difficult as we are not used to doing it, preferring to keep these approaches in separate compartments.
▪ The worst aspect of Hinduism is undoubtedly the caste system, which kept the population cooped up in so many separate compartments.
▪ The bivvy bag can be stored in a separate compartment at the base of the larger compression sack.
▪ Its study was isolated in a separate compartment until very recent times.
▪ It was getting impossible to keep their relationship in two separate compartments.
▪ Each species has evolved to deal with life in separate compartments.
▪ For Locke the separate compartments for faith and reason, or reason and revelation, did not exist.
▪ Business matters and personal relationships clearly occupied separate compartments in Guy's life.
development
▪ The government's difficulties were compounded by separate developments relating to its pledge to Islamicize the economy.
entity
▪ Although all separate entities, they do co-operate with each other as, naturally, they are all working towards the same ideal.
▪ This could not be happening if the brain and immune system were separate entities.
▪ National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities.
▪ With a few exceptions, each lesson is a separate entity and can be used by itself.
▪ These differences have led some investigators to consider cancer of the cardia as a separate entity.
▪ The singles chart needs to be treated as a separate entity, and not as a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen.
▪ As far as they are concerned, these discs are five separate entities.
group
▪ The network also brings together separate groups of people working on different aspects of the same software project.
▪ A separate group of specialists may speak of high school problems.
▪ Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group.
▪ Alternatively, the business may be run as divisions of separate group companies.
▪ The ginkgos are often placed in a separate group.
▪ The day began with health and social services managers meeting in their two separate groups.
▪ There is a separate group for Spina Bifida children.
▪ When Ross reached that area, he charted the islands as a separate group, the Russell Islands.
identity
▪ Field independence also relates to one's sense of separate identity, or developed sense of one's own feelings and needs.
▪ The sense of a distinct, separate identity fades and is replaced by a metamorphic self-image.
▪ It has been stripped of its separate identity and made dependent on the market and government for its survival.
▪ We shall see how it is that different particles of the same type can not have separate identities from one another.
▪ Various devices were used to encourage the development of separate identities between the two groups.
▪ During this process gods worshipped in the same animal eventually fused together, while other retained a separate identity.
▪ Like Gaiety Girls they had been judged worthy of a separate identity.
incident
▪ In a separate incident, a driver escaped drowning when his fuel tanker plunged into a canal.
▪ They shot or bludgeoned to death numerous others in separate incidents.
▪ The warning, from doctors at Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, follows the separate incidents, one involving a 20-month-old girl.
▪ And fire crews were stoned in three separate incidents as they tried to deal with fires.
▪ Three people were reported to have died in separate incidents of pre-election violence.
▪ In a separate incident, a pensioner was knifed in the head as he sat on a street bench.
▪ In a separate incident, a prisoner who was being moved, broke free and vandalised furniture.
▪ In a separate incident, a journalist, Turan Dursun, was shot and killed on Sept. 4.
issue
▪ A separate issue related to quality of care is the range of services provided.
▪ The extent to which their development involves various kinds of experience raises an entirely separate issue.
▪ Of course, their writing is sensationalistic and their checkbook tactics are shaky, but those are separate issues.
▪ Two separate issues arise from the search for better value.
▪ Although they are discussed here as separate issues, tourism, recreation and sport are not mutually exclusive.
▪ Nevertheless, whether corporate planning has become a reality is a separate issue.
life
▪ For instance marital problems can often lead to not talking, spending less time together, planning separate lives.
▪ Our two separate lives threatened our plans and undermined our relationship.
▪ Again, separate life cover is required to pay off your loan in any eventuality.
▪ They looked at their few years left and, instead of continuing to fight, chose a separate life.
▪ He lived his separate life and she waited for him to falter and slip back into alcohol.
▪ For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city.
▪ And although he and John lead separate lives, being the Prime Minister's brother does have advantages.
▪ The couple begin to lead separate lives and for the first time there is public concern over the marriage.
occasion
▪ The blips appeared on three separate occasions, and each time the lowest instrument showed the biggest jump.
▪ On two separate occasions I've heard her voice beyond the door.
▪ If the burial service follows a church service on a separate occasion, a fee will be charged.
▪ There are reasonable approximations of bicarbonate and alkali secretion for each subject on separate occasions.
▪ And that applied whether the words were spoken on separate occasions or all together.
▪ Patient isolates and control strains were coded and tested blind on at least two separate occasions.
section
▪ A separate section describing famous Orc and Goblin warlords has been included after the army list.
▪ A separate section in this chapter is devoted to the topic of measurement itself.
▪ Please see separate section for full listings.
▪ You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other.
▪ They tend to work at entirely separate sections of the music, ignoring each other, but talking all the while.
▪ Collate to gather separate sections or leaves of a book together in the correct order for binding.
▪ The engine and crew compartment can be assembled as two separate sections and stuck together when dry.
▪ He repeated the procedure twice more and laid the separate sections on the stone floor.
state
▪ The Ciskei thus appeared on the point of disappearing as a separate state, amid speculation that other homelands might follow suit.
▪ One year later it renounced its armed struggle and claim to a separate state at an extraordinary general congress.
▪ Yet taxation was a far more efficient method of collecting premiums and distributing payments than a separate state insurance scheme.
unit
▪ This might be in the form of a branch or sub-section of the BAeA or as a separate unit entirely.
▪ The carbonates occur in four separate units and all are known to contain potential reservoir rocks.
▪ The full course last from January to November 1993, but it is made up of six separate units.
▪ Over short time spans then genes are not the separate units of selection Dawkins supposes.
▪ However, it was emphasized that apart from that situation, each quarry would be regarded as a separate unit.
▪ At least seven genetically separate units are hidden within the supposed entity and each now has its own Linnaean name.
▪ The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings.
ways
▪ Or would they go their separate ways, each ruling an independent principality?
▪ Before you start going separate ways, take some time to reconnect.
▪ He says that they more or less go their separate ways, Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.
▪ They were too readily allowed to go their separate ways.
▪ Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways.
▪ After this they go their separate ways.
▪ In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.
▪ But now the venerable types are going their own separate ways.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
separate the sheep from the goats
separate the wheat from the chaff
under plain cover/under separate cover
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ separate bedrooms
▪ A separate study found that 77% of students are spending less time on homework.
▪ a university with three separate campuses
▪ All the children have separate bedrooms.
▪ He asked her out on two separate occasions.
▪ He likes to keep his work and his family life separate.
▪ In a separate saucepan, heat the milk and the cream.
▪ Keep your bank card and your PIN number separate.
▪ The cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles are completely separate.
▪ The nursery was separate from the main school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before Casey spoke, three prominent Democrats had taken issue with his charges in separate appearances on Sunday.
▪ The fitter brought the separate components into the correct position by the trunk.
▪ Then, write a separate list for each chapter and, possibly, for each section of a chapter.
▪ This led the Committee to propose two separate new statutes.
▪ Unlike Smith, he estimated a separate wage premium for the risk of nonfatal injury.
▪ Upholstery became a separate trade, and seating began to put on weight in consequence.
▪ We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ We are separating out one aspect for analysis, but doing this is slightly artificial.
▪ But a child with poor perceptual motor skills has to separate out each step in her mind.
▪ But in this area, as in no other, it's possible to separate out the politics from the science.
▪ None the less, it can be assumed that these two functions will benefit by being separated out as having competencies of their own.
▪ I never, on the other hand, determined that I would separate out a whole slot for a women's magazine.
▪ The criteria of sameness and difference offer few ways of separating out peoples once we rise above the level of locality.
▪ I had separated out a whole slot for an over-60s magazine, Years Ahead.
▪ For plastics to be recycled into worthwhile items, they must be separated out into the different types.
■ NOUN
child
▪ Parents are divided over the decision to separate the children.
▪ Some parents immediately separate the children and punish both when they do not know what has happened.
▪ What separates one group of children from the next?
▪ Third, the justices were strongly of the opinion that to separate the children would be harmful to them.
▪ It separates men from their children.
▪ For example, what messages are we conveying when we separate some children from others?
▪ Up to the time they have to cross this water, the children have never separated.
family
▪ Many students are orphans or have been separated from their families.
▪ When Gregory grew into manhood, he separated from his family, then was ordained.
▪ The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends.
▪ But the old monarchist argument that the monarchy can be separated from the royal family no longer holds.
group
▪ Increasingly, local government used its legal powers to separate out specific groups as targets for police intervention.
▪ In the most typical design, the experimenter separates a group of subjects into two or more groups.
▪ After the rut the males separate from the groups of females and begin their more or less solitary existence once again.
▪ The blocks are separated into groups by color, then each group is halved.
▪ These classifications are able to separate groups of nodal lymphomas with a clear correlation between morphological features and clinical behaviour.
▪ Nevertheless, in two cases in the separated group, the baby was given up for adoption because neither parent wanted custody.
▪ They found that the mammals had been separated into three groups.
▪ What separates one group of children from the next?
husband
▪ Pat Rutter, 37, fell into arrears totalling £5,000 after she separated from her husband two years ago.
▪ Then with the oldest, insecure Alice, after she separates from her husband.
▪ In September 1962 Sylvia Plath separated from her husband and moved with the two small children to a flat in London.
▪ Recently separated from her husband, she is raising their 5-year-old girl and a baby boy.
▪ Judith, a nurse, was living with her father after being separated from her husband.
▪ There was no reason why she should know that Veronica was separated from her husband.
line
▪ The dotted line in each diagram separates the superior courts from the inferior courts.
▪ In dOing 80, he had crossed an invisible line that separated the white and black beaches.
▪ At the networks, a rigid line separated news from entertainment; news was considered serious and important business.
▪ There wasn't the usual narrow line that separates the photographer from the people he photographs.
▪ The new car firm will keep the Renault and Volvo product lines and names separate, it said.
▪ The tunnel, a short one, was a single bore as the up and down lines were separated there.
parent
▪ Children with emotional problems may, for instance, be excessively afraid of strangers or of separating from their parents.
▪ Those at risk-overly sensitive, poorly assertive children-have not achieved the emotional mastery necessary to be successfully separate from parents.
▪ Unlike zoanthids, where large colonies can form by a similar process, the young mushroom polyps separate from the parent completely.
▪ A smothering style of parenting often produces boys who do not learn to become comfortably separate from their parents.
▪ He and his step-brother Philip Giles got separated from their parents on a ski-lift they were taking up the mountain side.
▪ However, in some instances the crisis of the birth separates parents.
▪ Children separate parents and define their roles along traditional gender lines.
rest
▪ But golf is a game of courage and that separates Faldo from the rest.
▪ My head was treated as if it was separated from the rest of my body.
▪ Correspondence and records are best kept in a small office separate from the rest of the farmhouse.
▪ And the feeling persists that Guinness ads. are undoubtedly different, separate from the rest of the herd.
▪ Even people with more liberal leanings believe that California is somehow separate from the rest of the country.
▪ On the way home Caledor's ship was separated from the rest of the High Elf fleet by a freak storm.
▪ Day 19 Six under-developed fry were observed in a group, separate from the rest of the shoal.
wall
▪ Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them.
▪ Today, the fire wall that separates politics from entertainment has all but disappeared.
▪ Miss Fogerty leant over the low dry-stone wall which separated the playground from the school-house garden.
▪ The two share adjoining rooms without walls or doors to separate them.
▪ He led Cleo through the kitchen gardens to the wall that separated the two estates.
▪ I clambered over the wall separating his garden from the orchard and followed him into the cottage.
wife
▪ He is separated from his wife but he has tried to abduct his daughter.
▪ Flinn says this guy lied to her, saying he was legally separated from his wife and had filed for divorce.
▪ Ralston has admitted that 13 years ago, while separated from his wife, he had a relationship with another woman.
▪ As for Longhouser, he was separated from his wife and expressing normal desires.
■ VERB
try
▪ Tucker tried to separate the relationships between bidirectional reflectance ratios and firstly, the biomass, secondly, the productivity.
▪ Just try to separate them as punishment!
▪ Police, drawn from several county forces, were trying to separate two opposed rioting mobs.
▪ I try to keep politics separate.
▪ It is dangerous if you try to separate them ... On television I watched a nature short about two-headed snakes.
▪ B4., try to separate the personality difficulties from the ones directly relating to job performance.
▪ The interim government had tried unsuccessfully to separate the factions, by using loyal militia and neutral mujaheddin groups.
▪ Jess tries to separate her personal feelings for Red from her feelings about Red as a player and teammate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Separating prisoners from each other is sometimes the only way of preventing riots.
▪ A tall fence separates the two houses.
▪ After years of abuse, Ginny finally separated from her husband.
▪ Anne and I separated for three months, but we are now together again.
▪ As the milk turns sour, it separates into thick curds and watery liquid.
▪ At this point, the satellite separates from its launcher.
▪ Break an egg into a bowl and separate the white from the yolk.
▪ Farmers separate calves from their mothers when they are only a few days old.
▪ Hair conditioner helps your curls to separate.
▪ He sat at a desk, separating a pile of mail into "urgent' and "non-urgent'.
▪ If you two don't stop talking during class, I'll have to separate you.
▪ Items in the list should be separated by commas.
▪ Kids are put under a tremendous emotional strain when their parents separate.
▪ Linda and George have only been married for a year and they're already thinking of separating.
▪ She looked over the picket fence that separates her lawn from the neighbor's.
▪ Some of the pages had got stuck together and I couldn't separate them.
▪ Steaks and meat patties should be separated by wax paper before freezing.
▪ Teachers thought it best to separate Paul and Fred and put them in different classes.
▪ The diaphragm is the strong muscular wall that separates the chest from the stomach.
▪ The milk had soured and separated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For there was a scramble for individual honours with just two ounces separating the leading four.
▪ In order to separate a lunar effect the team looked at the lunar day, the position of the Moon.
▪ Mam Tor is the first objective on the walk along the ridge which separates the Hope and Edale valleys.
▪ She was distressed and anxious at being separated from her friends, and rapidly developed colic.
▪ The mobile phase flows continuously over the stationary phase and as it does so separates the components on the stationary phase.
▪ The reactive tannins precipitate with the protein, and the improved wine can then be separated from the sediment.
▪ The two were not separated until Dan was kept back at Groton so Harry could enter Harvard first.
▪ To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.