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How to pronounce separate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms discriminate, single out
Type of tell apart, secern, severalize, differentiate, secernate, tell, distinguish, severalise
Has types disfavor, insulate, disfavour, redline, isolate, segregate, disadvantage, hive off
Derivation separative
Type Words
Synonyms divide
Type Words
Synonyms disjoined
Type Words
Synonyms assort, class, classify, sort, sort out
Type of categorise, categorize
Has types refer, number, isolate, group, grade, unitize, catalogue, stamp, stereotype, dichotomize, dichotomise, count, size, catalog, pigeonhole, reclassify, unitise
Type Words
Synonyms break, come apart, fall apart, split up
Type of change integrity
Has types puncture, break open, break up, burst, bust, crack, crush, split, snap, smash, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, ladder, run
Verb group break
Type Words
Synonyms carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up
Type of change integrity
Has types canton, unitise, subdivide, lot, triangulate, unitize, balkanize, splinter, sliver, format, initialise, initialize, balkanise, sectionalize, sectionalise, parcel, paragraph
Type Words
Synonyms break, break up, part, split, split up
Has types break away, break, disunite, disunify, dissociate, disassociate, secede, give the gate, give the bounce, split up, break apart, splinter, give the axe, break with, disjoint, divorce
Derivation separatist, separation


The couple separated after 25 years of marriage.
Type Words
Synonyms disunite, divide, part
Type of displace, move
Has types joint, keep apart, break up, break, rupture, polarise, gin, disjoin, disconnect, sever, set apart, sequestrate, sequester, cut, bust, isolate, cut up, snap, disjoint, tear, compartmentalise, compartmentalize, polarize, disarticulate
Derivation separation


He separated the fighting children.
Type Words
Synonyms branch, fork, furcate, ramify
Type of diverge
Has types arborise, arborize, bifurcate, trifurcate, twig
Verb group branch, ramify
Type Words
Synonyms divide
Has types detach, shut off, break, break up, close off, scatter, disperse, dispel, dissipate, rail off, zone, rail, partition
Derivation separative
Type Words
Synonyms part, split
Type of move
Has types scatter, spread out, dissipate, disperse, diffract, break up
Derivation separation


The friends separated after the party.
Type Words
Synonyms freestanding


a house with a separate garage.
Type Words
Synonyms differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart
Type of place, identify
Has types demarcate, label, know apart, know, individualize, individualise, have the distinction, severalise, severalize, sex, single out, dissociate, discriminate, stratify, decouple, contrast, contradistinguish
Type Words
Synonyms divide, part
Type of change
Has types break away, chip, chip off, come away, come off, take apart, partition off, subdivide, detach, discerp, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, polarise, gerrymander, segregate, segment, section, polarize, reduce, partition, calve, break up, break off
Derivation separation


The two pieces that we had glued separated.
Type Words
Synonyms offprint, reprint
Type of article
Type Words
Type of garment
Type Words
Type of change integrity
Has types dialyze, peptise, avulse, break up, peptize, disperse, sift, extract, filter, filter out, filtrate, sieve, fractionate, card, separate out, wash, break down, tease, decompose, macerate, strain, dialyse
Derivation separation, separator
Type Words
Derivation separateness


a problem consisting of two separate issues.
they went their separate ways.
formed a separate church.
Type Words
Derivation separateness


separate but equal.
girls and boys in separate classes.

Examples of separate

separate
Leg muscles are wrapped into separate compartments with tough wrapping material.
From the stltoday.com
Hours might separate tsunami waves, and the first one is not always the biggest.
From the sacbee.com
They also caused no apparent harm in separate tests in mice, the research found.
From the bloomberg.com
The units separate crude into oil products and form the main part of a refinery.
From the bloomberg.com
Kris'bio shows adaptability to completely separate and distinct administrations.
From the washingtontimes.com
Olga Neklyayeva said the men locked her, screaming, in a separate hospital room.
From the online.wsj.com
A separate $140 million mixed-use development is also planned for a site nearby.
From the democratandchronicle.com
It will be introduced in a separate bill, said Luna spokeswoman Melissa McGrath.
From the timesunion.com
You and your twin need to separate yourselves and develop independent interests.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
  • Act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
  • Offprint: a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
  • A garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
  • Force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
  • Freestanding: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
  • Distinguish: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
  • Disjoined: have the connection undone; having become separate
  • Divide: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"