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SEPARATELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apart from others

Example:

the fine points are treated singly

Synonyms:

individually; on an individual basis; one by one; separately; severally; singly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

separate (independent; not united or joint)

Credits

 Context examples: 

For presentation, the exposures were processed separately.

(Earth and Its Moon, as Seen From Mars, NASA)

New observations reveal that its regions formed separately over multiple eras of star birth.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Either of the two offspring from separately fertilized ova during the same pregnancy.

(Fraternal Twin, NCI Thesaurus)

A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The cultured LCs are allowed to mature for one day and then electroporated separately with CT7, MAGE-A3 or WT1 mRNA before final maturation.

(Autologous CT7/MAGE-A3/WT1 mRNA-Electroporated Langerhans-Type Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

C. clostridioforme is part of the RIC group of clostridium, is considered to be pathogenic and is typically found with, and must be identified separately from, Clostridium bolteae and Clostridium hathewayi.

(Clostridium clostridioforme, NCI Thesaurus)

Initially, scientists sequenced the genomes of the two wild ancestors separately, using DNA taken from the two species rather than from cultivated peanut.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Cells in the shoot and root can separately optimise growth to their local conditions.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

They function separately and so can adapt to different ways of life, like running, flying, digging and climbing.

(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)