Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: separated

'separated'

[separate.v.01] as in: act as a barrier between; stand between

Examples:
The mountain range divides the two countries

'separated'

[separate.v.02] as in: force, take, or pull apart

Examples:
He separated the fighting children
Moses parted the Red Sea

'separated'

[distinguish.v.01] as in: mark as different

Examples:
We distinguish several kinds of maple

'separated'

[divide.v.01] as in: separate into parts or portions

Examples:
divide the cake into three equal parts
The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I

'separated'

[separate.v.05] as in: divide into components or constituents

Examples:
Separate the wheat from the chaff

'separated'

[classify.v.01] as in: arrange or order by classes or categories

Examples:
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?

'separated'

[separate.v.07] as in: make a division or separation

'separated'

[separate.v.08] as in: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

Examples:
The business partners broke over a tax question
The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
My friend and I split up

'separated'

[separate.v.09] as in: go one's own way; move apart

Examples:
The friends separated after the party

'separated'

[break.v.02] as in: become separated into pieces or fragments

Examples:
The figurine broke
The freshly baked loaf fell apart

'separated'

[discriminate.v.02] as in: treat differently on the basis of sex or race

'separated'

[separate.v.12] as in: come apart

Examples:
The two pieces that we had glued separated

'separated'

[branch.v.02] as in: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

Examples:
The road forks

'separated'

[detached.s.02] as in: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; ; - Sherwood Anderson

Examples:
she felt detached from the group
could not remain the isolated figure he had been
thought of herself as alone and separated from the others
had a set-apart feeling

'separated'

[separated.s.02] as in: spaced apart

'separated'

[disjointed.s.03] as in: separated at the joint

Examples:
a dislocated knee
a separated shoulder

'separated'

[detached.s.03] as in: no longer connected or joined

Examples:
a detached part
on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached
the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases