SEPARATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does separated mean? 

• SEPARATED (adjective)
  The adjective SEPARATED has 4 senses:

1. being or feeling set or kept apart from others

2. spaced apart

3. separated at the joint

4. no longer connected or joined

  Familiarity information: SEPARATED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPARATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or feeling set or kept apart from others

Synonyms:

detached; isolated; separated; set-apart

Context example:

had a set-apart feeling

Similar:

separate (independent; not united or joint)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spaced apart

Synonyms:

separated; spaced

Similar:

distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Separated at the joint

Synonyms:

disjointed; dislocated; separated

Context example:

a separated shoulder

Similar:

injured (harmed)

Sense 4

Meaning:

No longer connected or joined

Synonyms:

detached; separated

Context example:

the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases

Similar:

unconnected (not joined or linked together)

 Context examples 

The young woman separated one of the forms.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I assure you,” said she, “I would not stand up without your dear sister for all the world; for if I did we should certainly be separated the whole evening.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The two membranes are separated by an intermembrane space.

(Mitochondrial Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

A second or later vaccine dose, separated from the first by time, to increase, extend, or maintain the immune response of the previous vaccination.

(Booster, NCI Thesaurus)

The two black holes, with a combined mass 15 billion times that of the Sun, are likely separated by only about 24 light-years, extremely close for such a system.

(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It strikes me as unnatural and unhealthful that men should be totally separated from women and herd through the world by themselves.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Northern Africa maintained a land connection with South America, but southern Africa slowly became more isolated until the continents completely separated 95-105 million years ago.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

Now I was in the last belt of trees which separated me from Fort Challenger.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The groups of the epithelioid cells are separated by thin-walled sinusoidal spaces.

(Alveolar soft part sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Whole blood or any of the components into which it can be separated.

(Blood and Blood Products, NCI Thesaurus)