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SEPARATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spaced apart
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
Sense 2
Meaning:
No longer connected or joined
Example:
the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases
Synonyms:
detached; separated
Classified under:
Similar:
unconnected (not joined or linked together)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Separated at the joint
Example:
a separated shoulder
Synonyms:
disjointed; dislocated; separated
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
injured (harmed)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Being or feeling set or kept apart from others
Example:
had a set-apart feeling
Synonyms:
detached; isolated; separated; set-apart
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
separate (independent; not united or joint)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb separate
Context examples:
Derived by Little (1921) from A Lathrop stocks and separated out before 1937.
(C57BL/10 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
A low grade carcinoma of the kidney characterized by the presence of tubules which are separated by mucinous stroma.
(Mucinous Tubular and Spindle Cell Carcinoma of the Kidney, NCI Thesaurus)
The nests are composed of epithelioid cells and are separated by delicate fibrous strands.
(Paraganglioma-Like Dermal Melanocytic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
They separated too much into parties.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A process in which anything complex is separated into simple or less complex parts.
(Analysis, NCI Dictionary)
You then walked swiftly for the mile which separated you from the vicarage.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The domain shows more diversity in structure and function than the highly conserved sequence suggests: at least six alpha helices separated by beta-strands, loops, or turns.
(ARID Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
The first two cysteine residues of members of this family are separated by a single amino acids and these proteins, therefore, are called also CXC-Chemokines.
(Alpha Chemokine, NCI Thesaurus)
Autologous peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are collected and separated into monocytes and lymphocytes.
(AAV-DC-CTL Tumor Cell Targeting Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
Light from sunsets, stars and planets can be separated into its component colors to create spectra, as prisms do with sunlight, in order to obtain hidden information.
(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)
