The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
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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.
Separating \Sep"a*ra`ting\, a. Designed or employed to separate.
Separating funnel (Chem.), a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.
Wiktionary
n. An instance of separate. vb. (present participle of separate English)
Usage examples of "separating".
He would not be trapped in a chair, the enforced stillness making him acutely conscious of the body separating him from God.
And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.
The buttresses separating it from the aisle are decorated with six storeys of niches, two to each storey, except the lowest, which contains only one.
Somewhere beyond the ability of my vision to scry lay the Straits of Alba, that wind-whipped expanse of water as grey and narrow and deadly as a blade, separating Ysandre from a dream.
From across the cell Alec heard the soft, sickening snap of joints separating.
Two tribes, same ancestry, all that, but one of them lived by a great river and tilled the land and mined gold and such from the nearby mountains that served as a barrier separating them from the others.
Fine was curious and began watching him through the glass wall separating the experimental apiary from the lab.
The battle droids moved quickly, surrounding Sio Bibble, separating him from his colleagues.
There would be no separating Bert and Cec this side of the death which they had so often faced together.
Community during the two-year interval separating us from the Centenary celebrations of the prophetic mission of the Founder of our Faith.
It was at first confined to the southern portion of Calabria, and was gradually extended northward, till about the time of the Punic wars it indicated the whole peninsula south of the Rivers Rubicon and Macra, the former separating Cisalpine Gaul and Umbria, the latter Liguria and Etruria.
I adore her, and would not have her think that I could cherish the thought of separating from her.
As they strolled from the room, necessarily separating in the pink, Van Deef was heard replying that he was already tempted unbearably, or words to that effect.
The deification is completed when Rousseau, separating the sovereign from his very origins, reaches the point of distinguishing between the general will and the will of all.
I considered her as my wife, we cherished each other, and did not allow the thought of separating to enter our minds.