separate in WordNet English dictionary

1. arrange or order by classes or categories
   "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
   classify  class  sort  assort  sort out  separate 
   
2. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
   "The road forks"
   branch  ramify  fork  furcate  separate 
   
3. become separated into pieces or fragments
   "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
   break  separate  split up  fall apart  come apart 
   
4. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
   "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
   separate  part  split up  split  break  break up 
   
5. separate into parts or portions
   "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
   divide  split  split up  separate  dissever  carve up 
   
6. mark as different
   "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
   distinguish  separate  differentiate  secern  secernate  severalize  severalise  tell  tell apart 
   
7. treat differently on the basis of sex or race
   discriminate  separate  single out 
   
8. force, take, or pull apart
   "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
   separate  disunite  divide  part 
   
9. come apart
   "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
   separate  divide  part 
   
10. make a division or separation
    separate  divide 
    
11. act as a barrier between; stand between
    "The mountain range divides the two countries"
    separate  divide 
    
12. go one's own way; move apart
    "The friends separated after the party"
    separate  part  split 
    
13. divide into components or constituents
    "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
    separate 
    

1. have the connection undone; having become separate
   disjoined  separate 
   
2. standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
   "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
   freestanding  separate 
   
3. independent; not united or joint
   "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
   separate 
   
4. separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
   "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
   separate 
   

1. a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
   offprint  reprint  separate 
   
2. a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
   separate