separate

Definition

Examples

Please submit the two reports in separate envelopes to the main office.

Word Family

Synonyms

• dividea serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
• isolateplace or set apart
• distinctrecognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type

Collocations

• Easy sleep in separate beds
  to sleep in separate beds, meaning to be asleep
• Medium keep work and personal expenses separate
  to continue or maintain in a specified condition regarding work and personal expenses separate
• Hard maintain separate corporate entities to ringfence liabilities
  to keep in good condition or preserve regarding separate corporate entities to ringfence liabilities
• Very Hard separate the wheat from the chaff in intelligence analysis
  to separate the wheat from the chaff in intelligence analysis, meaning to act as a barrier between; stand between