1. (

• separate ,
• divide

) act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" ;

2. (

• separate ,
• disunite ,
• divide ,
• part ,

) force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" ;

3. (

• distinguish ,
• separate ,
• differentiate ,
• secern ,
• secernate ,
• severalize ,
• severalise ,
• tell ,
• tell_apart

) mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" ;

4. (

• divide ,
• split ,
• split_up ,
• separate ,
• dissever ,
• carve_up

) separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" ;

5. (

• separate ,

) divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" ;

6. (

• classify ,
• class ,
• sort ,
• assort ,
• sort_out ,
• separate

) arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards;

7. (

• separate ,
• divide

) make a division or separation ;

8. (

• separate ,
• part ,
• split_up ,
• split ,
• break ,
• break_up

) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" ;

9. (

• separate ,
• part ,
• split

) go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" ;

10. (

• break ,
• separate ,
• split_up ,
• fall_apart ,
• come_apart

) become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" ;

11. (

• discriminate ,
• separate ,
• single_out

) treat differently on the basis of sex or race ;

12. (

• separate ,
• divide ,
• part

) come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" ;

13. (

• branch ,
• ramify ,
• fork ,
• furcate ,
• separate ,

) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" ;

1. (

• detached ,
• isolated ,
• separated ,
• set-apart

) 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" ;

2. (

• separated ,
• spaced

) spaced apart ;

3. (

• disjointed ,
• dislocated ,
• separated

) separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" ;

4. (

• detached ,
• separated

) 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" ;