separate
- adjective
- /ˈsɛpəˌreɪt/
- The HCAHPS data collection process is separate from data in a patient's medical record.
- kept separate
- separate analyses
- a separate course
And I don't see myself as separate all the time.
- And I don't see myself as separate all the time.
- And they were put in separate ICU wards
- Or is it completely a separate source?
- Because cost sheets should be separate and not seen by outsiders.
- Harvard is really the fusion of two separate institutions.
- I dried the thing three separate times and it's still won't dry.
- So, yeah, I would say they they look like very distinct, separate times.
- It's it's not a separate course by any means.
- Yes, like these, these are not, you know, separate entities.
- That day, three separate people were like, oh, that's a badass shirt.
- But if you so there's it's like two separate things but are related.
Examples
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Each department in the company operates as a separate entity with its own budget.
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We got separate landing sites for each team.
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And each of these is a separate country here.
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Or is it completely a separate source?
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And that is its own separate issue.
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Then I want a separate green room.
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Harvard is really the fusion of two separate institutions.
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Middle school students are working to define themselves as separate from peers and adults.
Academic text (2011) -
It is as if they have become two separate worlds.
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So this is a separate loop for the GPU.
Synonyms
Not together because of distance, time or different homes
Clearly different from others
Far from other places or people and hard to reach
Separate from other things and clearly different
Divided into opposing parts within a group
Not connected or related to something else, like two separate events
Not joined to something it was attached to before
Feeling separate from other people or different from them
Not together with other people, kept apart from them
A person who is not married and lives alone
Separated so parts are not connected anymore
Made of separate parts that do not touch each other
Split into groups that do not agree
Found in separate areas as groups that are not connected
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To pick out useful people or things from those that are not
How Separate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Separate comes from the Latin separare, where se- means 'apart' and the rest means 'part'. So separate describes something that stands 'apart' or is not joined to others.