Definition of "separate" []

• To set or keep apart; disunite. (verb-transitive)
• To space apart; scatter: small farms that were separated one from another by miles of open land. (verb-transitive)
• To sort: separate mail by postal zones. (verb-transitive)
• To differentiate or discriminate between; distinguish: a researcher who separated the various ethnic components of the population sample. (verb-transitive)
• To remove from a mixture or combination; isolate. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In connection with this fracture, reference must be made to a condition frequently met with, in which the epiphysial portion of the acromion is found to be separate from the body of the process -- _separate acromion_."
• ""He was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners:" not _separate_ in the sense of not eating and drinking with them, of not associating and conversing with them; but separate in the sense that he was not, like them, a transgressor of the law of"
• "Purchas having considered some of the ships belonging to _single_ adventurers or subscriptions, which made separate voyages or parts of voyages, as _separate_ adventures."