Separable
['sep(ə)rəb(ə)l] or ['sɛpərəbl]
Definition
(a.) Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Divisible, discerpible.
Editor: Maris
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dissoluble, removable, movable, distinguishable, accidental, divisible
ANT:Indissoluble, irremovable, permanent, immovable, indistinguishable, essential,inseparable, indivisible
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Examples
- This figure is moveable, separable, and divisible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The effect is there distinguishable and separable from the cause, and coued not be foreseen without the experience of their constant conjunction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- First, We have no abstract idea of existence, distinguishable and separable from the idea of particular objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What consists of parts is distinguishable into them, and what is distinguishable is separable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The difficulty of explaining this distinction arises from the principle above explained, that all ideas, which are different, are separable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Again, every thing, which is different, is distinguishable, and every thing which is distinguishable, is separable by the imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- All the American-Indian languages, which vary widely among themselves, are separable from any Old World group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whatever is distinct, is distinguishable; and whatever is distinguishable, is separable by the thought or imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But as all distinct ideas are separable, it is evident there can be no impossibility of that kind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- One is, keep yourself as separable from Bulstrode as you can: of course, you can go on doing good work of your own by his help; but don't get tied. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But Plato erroneously imagines that the synthesis is separable from the analysis, and that the method of science can anticipate science. Plato. The Republic.
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