Hypertext Webster Gateway: "separated"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From the fine gold I separate the alloy. --Dryden.
Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. --Gen. xiii.
9.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
--Rom. viii.
35.
2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space
between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea
separates Europe and Africa.
3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a
special use or service.
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
I have called thaem. --Acts xiii.
2.
{Separated flowers} (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and
pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. --Gray.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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