(~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If one thing is ~ from another, there is a barrier, space, or division between them, so that they are clearly two things.
Each villa has a ~ sitting-room...
They are now making plans to form their own ~ party...
Business bank accounts were kept ~ from personal ones.
ADJ: oft ADJ from n
~ness
...establishing Australia’s cultural ~ness from Britain.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you refer to ~ things, you mean several different things, rather than just one thing.
Use ~ chopping boards for raw meats, cooked meats, vegetables and salads...
Men and women have ~ exercise rooms...
The authorities say six civilians have been killed in two ~ attacks.
= different
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
If you ~ people or things that are together, or if they ~, they move apart.
Police moved in to ~ the two groups...
The pans were held in both hands and swirled around to ~ gold particles from the dirt...
The front end of the car ~d from the rest of the vehicle...
They ~d. Stephen returned to the square...
They’re ~d from the adult inmates.
V-RECIP: V pl-n, V n from n, V from n, pl-n V, V-ed
4.
If you ~ people or things that have been connected, or if one ~s from another, the connection between them is ended.
They want to ~ teaching from research...
It’s very possible that we may see a movement to ~ the two parts of the country...
He announced a new ministry to deal with Quebec’s threat to ~ from Canada.
V-RECIP: V n from n, V pl-n, V from n
5.
If a couple who are married or living together ~, they decide to live apart.
Her parents ~d when she was very young...
Since I ~d from my husband I have gone a long way.
V-RECIP: pl-n V, V from n
6.
An object, obstacle, distance, or period of time which ~s two people, groups, or things exists between them.
...the white-railed fence that ~d the yard from the paddock...
They had undoubtedly made progress in the six years that ~d the two periods...
But a group of six women and 23 children got ~d from the others.
VERB: V n from n, V pl-n, get V-ed
7.
If you ~ one idea or fact from another, you clearly see or show the difference between them.
It is difficult to ~ legend from truth...
It is difficult to ~ the two aims.
= distinguish
VERB: V n from n, V pl-n
•
Separate out means the same as ~ .
How can one ever ~ out the act from the attitudes that surround it?
PHRASAL VERB: V P n from n
8.
A quality or factor that ~s one thing from another is the reason why the two things are different from each other.
The single most important factor that ~s ordinary photographs from good photographs is the lighting...
= distinguish
VERB: V n from n
9.
If a particular number of points ~ two teams or competitors, one of them is winning or has won by that number of points.
In the end only three points ~d the two teams.
VERB: V pl-n
10.
If you ~ a group of people or things into smaller elements, or if a group ~s, it is divided into smaller elements.
The police wanted to ~ them into smaller groups...
Let’s ~ into smaller groups...
So all the colours that make up white light are sent in different directions and they ~.
= split
VERB: V n into n, V into n, V
•
Separate out means the same as ~ .
If prepared many hours ahead, the mixture may ~ out.
PHRASAL VERB: V P
11.
Separates are clothes such as skirts, trousers, and shirts which cover just the top half or the bottom half of your body.
N-PLURAL
12.
see also ~d
13.
When two or more people who have been together for some time go their ~ ways, they go to different places or end their relationship.
Sue and her husband decided to go their ~ ways.
PHRASE: V inflects