Separated

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Separate \Sep"a*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Separated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Separating}.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to
     separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare.
     See {Parade}, and cf. {Sever}.]
     1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part
        in any manner.


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              From the fine gold I separate the alloy. --Dryden.
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              Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. --Gen. xiii.
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              Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
                                                    --Rom. viii.
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     2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space
        between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea
        separates Europe and Africa.
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     3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a
        special use or service.
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              Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
              I have called thaem.                  --Acts xiii.
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     {Separated flowers} (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and
        pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. --Gray.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  separated
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {detached}, {isolated},
               {set-apart}]
       2: spaced apart [syn: {spaced}]
       3: not living together as man and wife; "decided to live
          apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are
          separated" [syn: {apart(p)}, {separate}]
       4: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated
          shoulder" [syn: {disjointed}, {dislocated}]
       5: 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"
          [syn: {detached}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  158 Moby Thesaurus words for "separated":
     alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, assorted, asunder,
     at a distance, at odds, at variance, away, companionless, contrary,
     contrasted, contrasting, cordoned, cordoned off, departing,
     detached, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated,
     differing, disaccordant, disaffected, disagreeing, disarticulated,
     disconnected, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated,
     disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated,
     disparate, dispersed, disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated,
     dissonant, distal, distant, distinct, distinguished, disunited,
     divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, divided,
     divorced, estranged, exotic, extraneous, far, far off, faraway,
     foreign, friendless, heterogeneous, homeless, in a backwater,
     in disagreement, inaccordant, incommensurable, incomparable,
     incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent,
     inharmonious, insular, interspaced, intervaled, irreconcilable,
     irrelative, isolated, kithless, legally separated, lone, lonely,
     lonesome, long-distance, long-range, many, motley, multifarious,
     other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, parted,
     poles apart, poles asunder, quarantined, remote, removed, retired,
     rootless, roped off, scattered, sealed off, secluded, segregate,
     segregated, separate, sequestered, set at intervals, several,
     shut off, single-handed, solitary, solo, spaced, spaced out,
     strange, torn, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unaided,
     unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconformable,
     unconnected, unequal, unescorted, unfrequented, unlike,
     unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited,
     variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart,
     widowed, widowered, widowish, widowlike, widowly, with an interval,
     with intervals, withdrawn, worlds apart