separate

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

Similiar / Same: divide, split, dissever, carve up, split up

Categories: change integrity

Within this category: Balkanize, canton, format, lot, paragraph, parcel, sectionalize, sliver, subdivide, triangulate, unitize

separate

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

Similiar / Same: classify, class, sort out, sort, assort

Categories: categorise, categorize

Within this category: catalogue, count, dichotomize, grade, group, isolate, pigeonhole, reclassify, refer, size, unitize

separate

How to sign: force, take, or pull apart
"He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea";

Similiar / Same: disunite, part, divide

Categories: displace, move

Within this category: break, compartmentalize, cut, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, gin, joint, polarize, sequester, sever, tear, tear

separate

How to sign: become separated into pieces or fragments
"The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart";

See also: decompose, break down, break up

Similiar / Same: come apart, break, split up, fall apart

Categories: change integrity

Within this category: break up, burst, burst, crush, ladder, puncture, smash, snap

separate

How to sign: mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple";

Similiar / Same: distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell apart, tell

Categories: identify, place

Within this category: contradistinguish, contrast, decouple, demarcate, discriminate, discriminate, individualize, know, label, label, severalize, sex, stratify

separate

How to sign: standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
"a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage";

Similiar / Same: freestanding

separate

How to sign: 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";

Similiar / Same: part, break up, split up, split, break

Within this category: break, break with, disassociate, disunify, divorce, give the axe, secede

separate

How to sign: go one's own away; move apart
"The friends separated after the party";

Similiar / Same: part, split

Categories: move

Within this category: break up, diffract, disperse