If one thing is separate from another, there is a barrier, space, or division between them, so that they are clearly two things.

If you refer to separate things, you mean several different things, rather than just one thing.

If you separate people or things that are together, or if they separate, they move apart.

If you separate people or things that have been connected, or if one separates from another, the connection between them is ended.

If a couple who are married or living together separate, they decide to live apart.

An object, obstacle, distance, or period of time which separates two people, groups, or things exists between them.

If you separate one idea or fact from another, you clearly see or show the difference between them.

A quality or factor that separates one thing from another is the reason why the two things are different from each other.

If a particular number of points separate two teams or competitors, one of them is winning or has won by that number of points.

If you separate a group of people or things into smaller elements, or if a group separates, it is divided into smaller elements.

Separates are clothes such as skirts, trousers, and shirts which cover just the top half or the bottom half of your body.

When two or more people who have been together for some time go their separate ways, they go to different places or end their relationship.