Definition of "separates" []

• Plural form of separate. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of separate. (verb)

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• "A sewage drain separates the street and and a displacement camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti."
• "One concern I have is that if Jane Doe separates from the payroll of BigCorp to become a self-employed consultant for BigCorp, her job disappears from the statistics but her output does not."
• "The barrel separates from the brightly colored, Marvin Martian base as a retractable roller ball."