separate

a separate bank account

Keep the two accounts separate.

But it didn't have a separate priestly class.

Some of the splitters say to give them a separate kingdom.

Resolving power is the ability of an optical instrument to show two objects as separate.

Scholars have detected some 6,000 separate hieroglyphic characters in use over the history of Egyptian writing, but it appears that never more than a thousand were in use during any one period.

When salts dissolve in water, no amount of magnification is going to show you separate pieces of salt.

With its gene pool isolated, a separate population can follow its own evolutionary course.

After a series of observations, Watt saw that the Newcomen’s waste of energy could be reduced by adding a separate condenser.

The arms could be held away from the body and carry separate items in their hands; there is no back pillar.

They are in a separate room where the temperature is controlled, to preserve the old paper in them.

In the 1760s, James Watt perfected a separate condenser for the steam, so that the cylinder did not have to be cooled at every stroke; then he devised a way to make the piston turn a wheel and thus convert reciprocating (back and forth) motion into rotary motion.

The rocks seem to take separate routes.

Modern architectural forms generally have three separate components comparable to elements of the human body: a supporting skeleton or frame, an outer skin enclosing the interior spaces, and equipment, similar to the body’s vital organs and systems.

The war separated her from her family.

twins who were separated at birth

We had never been separated for more than a few days.

A low flood plain separates the beach from the township above.

the white-railed fence that separated the yard from the paddock

First, separate the eggs.

You won't see any long benches with children in rows or heavy desks that separate children.

Similarly, a creeping glacier may gradually divide a population, or a land bridge such as the Isthmus of Panama may form and separate the marine life in the ocean waters on either side.

For example, the Grand Canyon, in the southwestern United States, separate the range of the while-tailed antelope squirrel from that of the closely related Harris’ antelope squirrel.

So actually what you got in smoke are three phases: solid, liquid, and gas, which you can separate by a process of filtration.

Between 80 and 85 million years ago, Gondwanaland, a giant continent made up of what today is Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and South America, broke up, thus causing what is now New Zealand to become separated from the larger landmass.

The various portions can be mechanically separated.

Callisto has not fully differentiated, meaning separated into layers of different density materials.

These episodes of rapid evolution are separated by relatively long static spans during which a species may hardly change at all.

This will keep your dressing from separating.

So for them to selectively breed, to have the patience to be able to pick out just the right plants and gradually over generations, separate out the durable nutritious maize plant from the Beadle teosinte that easily broke apart, it's a pretty impressive feat.

Once the Sun passes into its "postnuclear" phase, it will separate effectively into two different regions: an inner zone and an outer zone.

And with less pressure, the oil and gas were able to separate.

And, um, it’s the same thing that happens at the surface, there is less pressure, and, so the oil and gas separate.

The effect of desiccation is often difficult to separate from the effect of temperature.

In some cases, the physical division within the first cities reflected the strict hierarchical character of the society as a whole, with a royal palace surrounded by an imposing wall and separate from the remainder of the urban population.

Does anyone know how the gas separates from the oil?

I wrote it on a separate sheet.

The individual traveling merchant who alone handled virtually all aspects of exchange evolved into an operation involving three separate types of merchants: the sedentary merchant who ran the "home office" financing and organizing the firm's entire export-import trade; the carriers who transported goods by land and sea; and the company agents resident in cities abroad who, on the advice of the home office, looked after sales and procurements.

No, the classes fall into a separate category.

So you’ve probably studied both of these movements separately, separate movements, Realism and Impressionism, in some of your art history courses.

For them, well, they come together to mate and then they go their separate ways.

Rose stayed separate from the other children.

That invention was the arch, a curved structure originally made of separate stone or brick segments.

Roman builders perfected the semicircular arch made of separate blocks of stone.

It is difficult to separate truth from legend.

They are individuals who separate themselves from a society of which they have formerly been members.

Her parents separated when she was eleven.

Such buildings, however, were viewed in a category separate from "fine" architecture, and in fact were often designed by engineers and builders rather than architects.

He separated from the rest of the group.

The fine particles of ultramarine were then separated from the rest.

We went our separate ways home.

After ten years of marriage, they had decided to go their separate ways.

In order to promote business between us, we are airmailing you samples, under separate cover, for your inspection.

Quebec feels separate from the rest of Canada.

They plan to form their own separate party.

The children have separate rooms.

Each holiday chalet has its own separate garden.