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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
separated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
widely
▪ Similar processes would explain anomalies such as the existence of closely related species in widely separated locations.
▪ There is also plenty of water for the shoals to be feeding at the same time in widely separated places.
▪ In other words, they appear at the same time at widely separated localities.
▪ One could distinguish gamma ray bursts from such effects by observing flashes simultaneously at two or more fairly widely separated locations.
▪ The same processes could explain how related species appeared on widely separated land masses.
▪ From the beginning, it claimed credit for outrages in widely separated places in Ulster.
■ NOUN
woman
▪ Divorced and separated women often complain of the speed with which they lose contact with their married friends.
▪ Or was a separated woman still an outcast in Veronica's circle?
▪ Many divorced and separated women moved in with a new partner.
▪ Of divorced or separated women, 18% were cohabiting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ David and I have been separated for six months but we're not divorced yet.
▪ I didn't know Linda and Mike were separated.
▪ Victoria's separated from her husband and caring for her children alone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fit the swivel plus connector, and lock the sleeving on to itself with two separated overhand knots.
▪ Most lone parents - both men and women - have been married and are separated or divorced from their former partners.
▪ On Vinyl, he is separated, safe, subtle and simply, a one-sided statement.
▪ She is separated, with a grown-up son.
▪ Similar processes would explain anomalies such as the existence of closely related species in widely separated locations.
▪ Stranded cotton is the best to use because the six strands can be separated and re-combined to make the thickness you require.
▪ They fall into two primary classes which legal theory tries to keep rigidly separated but which in economic reality merge into each other.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Separated

Separate \Sep"a*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Separated; p. pr. & vb. n. Separating.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. Sever.]

  1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

    From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
    --Dryden.

    Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me.
    --Gen. xiii. 9.

    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
    --Rom. viii. 35.

  2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

  3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

    Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem.
    --Acts xiii. 2.

    Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers.
    --Gray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
separated

1530s, past participle adjective from separate (v.). In reference to married couples deciding to live apart, from 1878.

Wiktionary
separated
  1. 1 detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart. 2 (context of spouses English) estranged; living apart but not divorced. v

  2. (en-past of: separate)

WordNet
separated
  1. adj. being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: detached, isolated, set-apart]

  2. spaced apart [syn: spaced]

  3. not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated" [syn: apart(p), separate]

  4. separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" [syn: disjointed, dislocated]

  5. no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases" [syn: detached]

Wikipedia
Separated

Separated can refer to:

  • Legal separation of spouses
  • "Separated" (song), song by Avant
  • Separated sets, a concept in mathematical topology
  • Separated space, a synonym for Hausdorff space, a concept in mathematical topology
  • Separated morphism, a concept in algebraic geometry analogous to that of separated space in topology
  • Separation of conjoined twins, a procedure that allows them to live independently.
Separated (song)

"Separated" is an R&B song recorded by Avant for the album, My Thoughts. It was released as the album's first single. It spent one week at number-one on the US R&B chart and reached #23 on the pop chart.

The remix features Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child. An additional remix titled "Separated (Who Luvz Ya Best Remix)", featuring rapper Foxy Brown also exists.

Usage examples of "separated".

When the lead in the assay has been separated as sulphate and dissolved in sodic acetate, less chromate is apparently required, and in this case it will be necessary to precipitate the lead in the standard with an equivalent of sodic sulphate and redissolve in sodic acetate just as in the assay.

The metal itself is easily fusible, and may be separated from its ores by liquation.

The general methods of working resemble those of ordinary chemical analysis, and their successful working is greatly helped by a knowledge of, at any rate, those compounds of the metal which enable it to be separated, and of those which are the most convenient forms in which it can be weighed.

In this way any separated specks of gold can be taken up with certainty.

The osmiridium will remain as an insoluble residue, which can be separated and weighed.

The copper is separated from the solution as sulphide by means of a rapid current of sulphuretted hydrogen.

It is filtered off at once, or, if only present in small amount, it is carried on in the ordinary process of the assay and separated in the last filtration before electrolysis.

Mercury, which if present would interfere, is separated because of the insolubility of its sulphide in nitric acid.

If nickel is present, the few milligrams of copper remaining in the electrolysed solution should be separated with sulphuretted hydrogen, the precipitated sulphide dissolved in nitric acid, and determined colorimetrically.

The bismuth was separated from this precipitate with ammonic carbonate before determination, and 0.

Since none of the commoner metals give such a colour, and free iodine is easily separated by boiling, this method is specially suited for small determinations of bismuth.

The antimony is separated as sulphide, redissolved in hydrochloric acid, and oxidised with a crystal of chlorate of potash.

If the separated sulphide be heated in a borax bead, the colour obtained will be a sherry brown in the outer flame, and grey or colourless in the inner flame if nickel only is present.

The nickel is separated from the solution by boiling with sodic hydrate, filtering, and dissolving the precipitate in nitric acid.

It is concentrated from the ore in the same way as nickel, and should be separated from that metal by means of potassic nitrite in the way described.