separate
/ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/ verbo B2En español: separar, cisionar, disgregar, disatraer
- To divide (a thing) into separate parts. · Separate the articles from the headings.
- To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- To cause (things or people) to be separate. · If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
- To divide itself into separate pieces or substances. · The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
He/she/it separates · Pasado separated · Participio pasado separated · Forma en -ing separating
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- separate
- He/she/it
- separates
- Pasado
- separated
- Participio pasado
- separated
- Forma en -ing
- separating
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
The plans, which are exceedingly intricate, comprising some thirty separate patents, each essential to the working of the whole, are kept in an elaborate safe in a confidential office adjoining the arsenal, with burglar-proof doors and windows.
We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other.
You see, I argued that if Drebber and his companion had become separated, the natural course for the latter would be to put up somewhere in the vicinity for the night, and then to hang about the station again next morning.”
A small garden sprinkled over with a scattered eruption of sickly plants separated each of these houses from the street, and was traversed by a narrow pathway, yellowish in colour, and consisting apparently of a mixture of clay and of gravel.
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