| verb | act as a barrier between; stand between “The mountain range divides the two countries” |
| verb | force, take, or pull apart “He separated the fighting children” |
| verb | mark as different “We distinguish several kinds of maple” |
| verb | separate into parts or portions “divide the cake into three equal parts” |
| verb | divide into components or constituents “Separate the wheat from the chaff” |
| verb | arrange or order by classes or categories “How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?” |
| verb | make a division or separation |
| verb | discontinue an association or relation; go different ways “The business partners broke over a tax question” |
| verb | go one's own way; move apart “The friends separated after the party” |
| verb | become separated into pieces or fragments “The figurine broke” |
| verb | treat differently on the basis of sex or race |
| verb | come apart “The two pieces that we had glued separated” |
| verb | divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork “The road forks” |
| adjective | being or feeling set or kept apart from others; ; - Sherwood Anderson “she felt detached from the group” |
| adjective | spaced apart |
| adjective | separated at the joint “a dislocated knee” |
| adjective | no longer connected or joined “a detached part” |
| divide | noun | a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems |
| divider | noun | a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) |
| separation | noun | the act of dividing or disconnecting |
| partitive | adjective | serving to separate or divide into parts |
| distinction | noun | a discrimination between things as different and distinct |
| difference | noun | a variation that deviates from the standard or norm |
| differentiation | noun | a discrimination between things as different and distinct |
| differentiator | noun | a person who (or that which) differentiates |
| divisible | adjective | capable of being or liable to be divided or separated |
| division | noun | the act or process of dividing |
| split | noun | a promised or claimed share of loot or money |
| separator | noun | an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension |
| classificatory | adjective | relating to or involving classification: |
| class | noun | a league ranked by quality |
| classification | noun | a group of people or things arranged by class or category |
| classifier | noun | a person who creates classifications |
| sort | noun | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality |
| sorter | noun | a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office) |
| sorting | noun | an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion |
| assortment | noun | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type |
| separative | adjective | serving to separate or divide into parts |
| separatist | noun | an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) |
| break | noun | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) |
| breakup | noun | the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) |
| parting | noun | the act of departing politely |
| breakable | adjective | capable of being broken or damaged |
| discriminatory | adjective | containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice |
| discrimination | noun | unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice |
| discriminator | noun | a person who (or that which) differentiates |
| branch | noun | a part of a forked or branching shape |
| ramification | noun | a part of a forked or branching shape |
| fork | noun | the act of branching out or dividing into branches |
| forking | noun | the place where something divides into branches |
| furcation | noun | the place where something divides into branches |