Definitions of separate:

• noun:   a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
• noun:   a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
• verb:   discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

  Example: "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"

• verb:   act as a barrier between; stand between
• verb:   divide into components or constituents

  Example: "Separate the wheat from the chaff"

• verb:   force, take, or pull apart

  Example: "He separated the fighting children"

• verb:   come apart

  Example: "The two pieces that we had glued separated"

• verb:   go one's own away; move apart

  Example: "The friends separated after the party"

• verb:   make a division or separation
• verb:   treat differently on the basis of sex or race
• verb:   become separated into pieces or fragments
• verb:   mark as different
• verb:   separate into parts or portions
• verb:   divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
• verb:   arrange or order by classes or categories
• adjective:   separated according to race, sex, class, or religion

  Example: "Separate but equal"

• adjective:   independent; not united or joint

  Example: "A problem consisting of two separate issues"

• adjective:   individual and distinct

  Example: "Pegged down each separate branch to the earth"

• adjective:   characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing

  Example: "Separate rooms"

• adjective:   not living together as man and wife

  Example: "Maintaining separate households"

• adjective:   standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything

  Example: "A house with a separate garage"

• adjective:   have the connection undone; having become separate