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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Separate \Sep"a*rate\, verb (used with an object) [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) 2.0 [wn]:
separated
adjective
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
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