separate.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To show who has strength, courage and loyalty and find who do not. * /When the ship hit an iceberg and sank, it separated the men from the boys./ * /The mile run separates the men from the boys./

separate.html - See SEPARATE THE MEN FROM THE BOYS.

separate.html - adj.
1 able to be separated.
2 Gram. (of a prefix, or a verb in respect of a prefix) written as a separate word in some collocations.

separability n. separableness n. separably adv. [F s

parable or L separabilis (as SEPARATE)]

separate.html - adj., n., & v. --adj.

(often foll. by from) forming a unit that is or may be regarded as apart or by itself; physically disconnected, distinct, or individual (living in separate rooms; the two questions are essentially separate).

--n.

1 (in pl.) separate articles of clothing suitable for wearing together in various combinations.
2 an offprint.

--v.

1 tr. make separate, sever, disunite.
2 tr. prevent union or contact of.
3 intr. go different ways, disperse.
4 intr. cease to live together as a married couple.
5 intr. (foll. by from) secede.
6 tr. a divide or sort (milk, ore, fruit, light, etc.) into constituent parts or sizes. b (often foll. by out) extract or remove (an ingredient, waste product, etc.) by such a process for use or rejection.
7 tr. US discharge, dismiss.

separately adv. separateness n. separative adj. separatory adj. [L separare separat- (as SE-, parare make ready)]

separate.html - n.
1 the act or an instance of separating; the state of being separated.
2 (in full judicial separation or legal separation) an arrangement by which a husband and wife remain married but live apart.
3 any of three or more monochrome reproductions of a coloured picture which can combine to reproduce the full colour of the original.

separation order an order of court for judicial separation. [ME f. OF f. L separatio -onis (as SEPARATE)]

separate.html - n.
a person who favours separation, esp. for political or ecclesiastical independence (opp. UNIONIST 2).

separatism n.