separate - Meaning in Tamil

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separate - Meaning in Tamil

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Definitions and Meaning of separate in English

separate adjective

1. independent; not united or joint

   Examples

   • "a problem consisting of two separate issues"
   • "formed a separate church"
   • "they went their separate ways"
2. separated according to race, sex, class, or religion

   Examples

   • "girls and boys in separate classes"
   • "separate but equal"
3. have the connection undone; having become separate

   Synonyms

   disjoined

4. standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything

   Synonyms

   freestanding

   Examples

   • "a freestanding bell tower"
   • "a house with a separate garage"

separate noun

1. a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

   Synonyms

   offprint, reprint

2. a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

separate verb

1. arrange or order by classes or categories

   Synonyms

   assort, class, class, classify, sort out, sort

   Example

   • "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
2. divide into components or constituents

   Example

   • "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
3. force, take, or pull apart

   Synonyms

   disunite, divide, part

   Examples

   • "He separated the fighting children"
   • "Moses parted the Red Sea"
4. come apart

   Synonyms

   divide, part

   Example

   • "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
5. go one's own way; move apart

   Synonyms

   part, split, split

   Example

   • "The friends separated after the party"
6. make a division or separation

   Synonyms

   divide

7. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

   Synonyms

   break up, break, part, split up, split, split

   Examples

   • "My friend and I split up"
   • "The business partners broke over a tax question"
   • "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"
8. separate into parts or portions

   Synonyms

   carve up, dissever, divide, split up, split, split

   Examples

   • "divide the cake into three equal parts"
   • "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
9. treat differently on the basis of sex or race

   Synonyms

   discriminate, single out

10. act as a barrier between; stand between

    Synonyms

    divide

    Example

    • "The mountain range divides the two countries"
11. mark as different

    Synonyms

    differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, tell, tell

    Example

    • "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
12. become separated into pieces or fragments

    Synonyms

    break, come apart, fall apart, split up

    Examples

    • "The figurine broke"
    • "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
13. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

    Synonyms

    branch, branch, fork, furcate, ramify

    Example

    • "The road forks"

Synonyms of separate

• offprint, reprint
• branch, fork, furcate, ramify
• break, come apart, fall apart, split up
• differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart
• assort, class, classify, sort, sort out
• disunite, divide, part
• divide, part
• part, split
• divide
• break, break up, part, split, split up
• carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up
• discriminate, single out
• divide
• freestanding
• disjoined

Antonyms of separate

joint

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