Separate
['sep(ə)reɪt] or ['sɛpret]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments.
(verb.) divide into components or constituents; 'Separate the wheat from the chaff'.
(verb.) force, take, or pull apart; 'He separated the fighting children'; 'Moses parted the Red Sea'.
(verb.) come apart; 'The two pieces that we had glued separated'.
(verb.) go one's own way; move apart; 'The friends separated after the party'.
(verb.) make a division or separation.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) act as a barrier between; stand between; 'The mountain range divides the two countries'.
(adj.) separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; 'separate but equal'; 'girls and boys in separate classes' .
(adj.) independent; not united or joint; 'a problem consisting of two separate issues'; 'they went their separate ways'; 'formed a separate church' .
黛比手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
(v. t.) To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
(v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
(v. i.) To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
(p. a.) Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
(p. a.) Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.
(p. a.) Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Disjoin, disunite, disconnect, dispart, divide, detach, disengage, insulate, isolate.[2]. Sever, dissever, sunder, cleave, part.[3]. Withdraw, remove, eliminate.
v. n. Part, divide, cleave, be divided, be disunited, be separated.
a. Disjoined, disconnected, unconnected, disunited, dissociated, detached, distinct, discrete.
錄入:莫伊拉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Disunited, disjoined, disconnected, unconnected, detached, severed, different
ANT:Connected, conjoined, united, alike
校對:米里亚姆
解釋/意思:
v.t. to divide: to part: to withdraw: to set apart for a certain purpose: to sever.—v.i. to part: to withdraw from each other: to become disunited.—adj. separated: divided: apart from another: distinct.—n. Separabil′ity.—adj. Sep′arable that may be separated or disjointed.—n. Sep′arableness.—advs. Sep′arably; Sep′arately.—ns Sep′arateness; Sep′arating-disc an emery-wheel for cutting a space between teeth; Separā′tion act of separating or disjoining: state of being separate: disunion: chemical analysis: divorce without a formal dissolution of the marriage-tie; Separā′tionist; Sep′aratism act of separating or withdrawing esp. from an established church; Sep′aratist one who separates or withdraws esp. from an established church a dissenter: a name applied by the Unionists to those Liberals in favour of granting Home Rule to Ireland.—adj. Sep′arātive tending to separate.—ns. Sep′arātor one who or that which separates: a divider; Sep′arātory a chemical vessel for separating liquids of different specific gravities; Sep′arātrix the line separating light from shade on any partly illuminated surface; Separā′tum a separate copy of a paper which has been published in the proceedings of a scientific society.—Separate estate property of a married woman over which her husband has no right of control; Separate maintenance a provision made by a husband for the sustenance of his wife where they decide to live apart.
校對:雷明顿
例句/造句/用法:
- It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The bodies are shipped separate from the chassis, being stood on end in one-half of the car and protected from dust by coverings. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Can I separate my father's twin-brother, joint inheritor, and next successor, from himself? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I cannot separate Miss Fairfax and her complexion. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- But we will be one now and there will never be a separate one. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The paper, cut into the desired form by a separate machine, was piled up on one side of the envelope folder. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- But there is a decided grouping of valuable metals, and these can then be readily separated by means of electricity. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- At the foot of the throne these two parties separated and halted, facing each other at opposite sides of the aisle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- So long, so totally separated from him, merely to see his home, to enter the room where he had that morning sat, felt like a reunion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This would be very valuable if the iron could be separated from the sand. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Every thing, that is different is distinguishable: and everything, that is distinguishable, may be separated, according to the maxims above-explained. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The weeping girl covers her hand with kisses and says what shall she do, what shall she do, when they are separated! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I at last found a clear space separating two ponds. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Our lines covered his front, with the six miles separating the two wings guarded by but a single division. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- These private considerations, combined with political reasons, fixed his resolution of separating the cousins. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to Elizabeth-- Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Is not the natural heat of animals thus produced, by separating in digestion the parts of food, and setting their fire at liberty? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Hundreds of instruments have been invented for measuring, analysing, weighing, separating, volatilising and otherwise applying chemical processes to practical purposes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The dispersion of a ray of white light separates it into its component color rays. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The heat separates the ammonia gas from the water, and the gas is then used to operate a suitable engine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The number of the interval which separates the king from the tyrant, and royal from tyrannical pleasures, is 729, the cube of 9. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And how enormous is the distance which separates the just from the unjust in regard to pleasure and pain! 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In a few moments the latter separates and there is distinctly seen a woman’s body, the lower part of which is hidden by a basket of flowers. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Would you know the measure of the interval which separates them? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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