· act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"

Synonym(s): divide

· force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

Synonym(s): disunite, divide, part

Hypernym(s): move, displace

· mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"

Synonym(s): distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell_apart

Hypernym(s): identify, place

· separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

Synonym(s): divide, split, split_up, dissever, carve_up

Hypernym(s): change_integrity

· divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"

Hypernym(s): change_integrity

· arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

Synonym(s): classify, class, sort, assort, sort_out

Hypernym(s): categorize, categorise

· make a division or separation

Synonym(s): divide

· 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"

Synonym(s): part, split_up, split, break, break_up

· go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"

Synonym(s): part, split

Hypernym(s): move

· become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"

Synonym(s): break, split_up, fall_apart, come_apart

Hypernym(s): change_integrity

· treat differently on the basis of sex or race

Synonym(s): discriminate, single_out

Hypernym(s): distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell_apart

· come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"

Synonym(s): divide, part

Hypernym(s): change

· divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"

Synonym(s): branch, ramify, fork, furcate

Hypernym(s): diverge

· being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"

Synonym(s): detached, isolated, set-apart

· spaced apart

Synonym(s): spaced

· separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"

Synonym(s): disjointed, dislocated

· no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"

Synonym(s): detached