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separar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • detach verb To remove or separate something from what it was attached to.
  • part noun A piece or portion of something larger.
  • separate verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.
  • sequester verb To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
  • sever verb To cut off or separate something completely, often abruptly.
  • shed noun A small, simple structure used for storage or shelter, usually in a garden or yard.
  • sift verb To pass a dry substance through a sieve to remove lumps or separate fine from coarse.
  • sort noun A particular type or kind of something.
  • winnow verb To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

Senses

separar is used for these senses in English:

  • break up (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
  • break up (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
  • cut off (transitive) To isolate or remove from contact.
  • detach (transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
  • part (intransitive) To leave the company of.
  • separate (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
  • separate (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
  • separate (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.

part — full definition

  1. noun A piece or portion of something larger.
  2. noun A role played by an actor, or someone's share of responsibility in something.
  3. verb To separate from someone or something, or to divide something into pieces.
  4. adv Partly; to some degree.

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