separate meaning
EN
[ˈsɛp(ə)ɹət] [ˈsɛpəɹeɪt] 
US, adjective US, verb - NounPLseparatesSUF-té
- VerbSGseparatesPRseparatingPT, PPseparated
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
- Separate the articles from the headings.
- To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
- (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
- Adjective
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
- I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Most unigenes in the set are likely to be transcribed from separate genomic loci, however some also represent divergent alleles or homeologs at the same genomic locus.
- One sample, W52 (fabric group 3), separates out from the other sherds, which overlap with a considerable amount of intrasample variation.
- After centrifugation, the supernatant containing the core oligosaccharidic portion of the LOS was separated from a precipitate constituted by the lipid A.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.
- Separate experiments show that infants habituated to repeated occurrences of one object will dishabituate to the presentation of a new object (Xu and Carey 1996 , p. 136).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Writers change the URIs as they compose because writers commutate and manipulate language to create a variety of rhetorical experiences that can be read at once, as overlapping, or as separate.
- Subsequently, the cystohepatic triangle of patients, with head up in left lateral position, was separated.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of separate in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Adjectives
- en separated
- en separately
- en separates
- en separatest
- en separateth
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "separate" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.