Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Separate \Sep"a*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Separated}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Separating}.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to
   separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare.
   See {Parade}, and cf. {Sever}.]
   1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part
      in any manner.

            From the fine gold I separate the alloy. --Dryden.

            Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. --Gen. xiii.
                                                  9.

            Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
                                                  --Rom. viii.
                                                  35.

   2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space
      between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea
      separates Europe and Africa.

   3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a
      special use or service.

            Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto
            I have called thaem.                  --Acts xiii.
                                                  2.

   {Separated flowers} (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and
      pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. --Gray.

Source : WordNet®

separated
     adj 1: being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt
            detached from the group"; "could not remain the
            isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson;
            "thought of herself as alone and separated from the
            others"; "had a set-apart feeling" [syn: {detached}, {isolated},
             {set-apart}]
     2: spaced apart [syn: {spaced}]
     3: not living together as man and wife; "decided to live
        apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are
        separated" [syn: {apart(p)}, {separate}]
     4: separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated
        shoulder" [syn: {disjointed}, {dislocated}]
     5: no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one
        side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the
        separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
        [syn: {detached}]