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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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separately

/ˈsɛp(ə)rətli/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈsɛp(ə)rətli/

separately

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

se - pa - ra - te - ly -> separately

Myanmar meaning

(adv) ကွဲထွက်စွာ

Full entry

separate /'seprǝt/ adj

၁။ ~ (from sth/ sb) သီးခြား။ သီးသန့်။ The children sleep in separate beds. ❍ Violent prisoners are kept separate from the others. ❍ They lead separate lives (ie do not live or do things together). ❍ When the partnership ended, we went our separate ways.
၂။ သီးခြား။ It happened on three separate occasions. ❍ That is a separate issue and irrelevant to our discussion.
v
၁။ (က) ~ (sb/ sth) (from sb/ sth) ကွဲ သည်။ ဖျဉ်သည်။ ကွာသည်။ ခွဲသည်။ separate two dogs fighting ခွေးနှစ်ကောင် ကိုက်နေသည်ကို ဖျဉ်သည်။ ❍ families separated by the war စစ်ကြောင့်ကွဲကွာနေသော မိသားစုများ။ ❍ separate the egg yolk from the white ❍ This prisoner should be separated from the others. ❍ separating fact from fantasy ❍ Separate (out) the cotton fabrics from the rest of the wash. လျှော်မည့်အဝတ်များထဲမှ ချည်ထည်များကို ရွေး ထုတ်ပါ။ ❍ the engine separated (from its mounting) in flight. (ခ) ~ (out) ကွဲ ထွက်သည်။ The yoghurt will separate when it is heated. ❍ Oil and water always separate out.
၂။ ~ (from sb) လမ်းခွဲသည်။ ခွဲသည်။ We talked for an hour before separating.
၃။ ~ (from sb) လင်မယားခွဲနေသည်။ ကွဲနေသည်။ After ten years of living together they decided to separate. ❍ She has separated from her husband.
၄။ ~ sth (from sth) ခြားသည်။ ကန့်သည်။ ကွာသည်။ A deep gorge separates the two halves of the city. ❍ (fig ) Only 0.2 of a second separates the leaders. ဦးဆောင်နေသူနှစ်ယောက်မှာ အချင်းချင်း ဝ.၂ စက္ကန့်သာကွာသည်။ ❍ (fig ) Only 100 metres separated them from the border guards. သူတို့နဲ့ နယ်စပ်အစောင့်တွေ မီတာ ၁၀၀ သာ ကွာလှမ်းသည်။
၅။ ခြားသည်။ ကွဲ သည်။ ခွဲ သည်။ ကွာသည်။ Her religious vocation separates her from the rest of us. ❍ Politics is the only thing that separates us (ie on which we disagree). ❍ The judges found it impossible to separate the two contestants (ie They gave them equal scores).
❏ separated adj ~ (from sb) တရားဝင်မကွာရှင်းဘဲ လင်မယားကွဲနေသော။ I'm separated from my wife. ❍ We're separated.
❏ separately adv ~ (from sb/ sth) သီးသန့်။ တကွဲ စီ။ တခြားစီ။ They are now living separately. ❍ It is better to cook the stuffing separately from the turkey.
❏ separates n [pl] အထက်အောက် အမျိုးမျိုးတွဲဖက်ဝတ်နိုင် သော ဝတ်စုံ။
❏ separate the sheep from the goats [IDM ] လူကောင်း နှင့်လူဆိုး ခွဲခြားပါ။
❏ separate the wheat from the chaff [IDM ] အကောင်း အဆိုးခွဲသည်။ sift through application forms to separate the wheat from the chaff.
❏ separatism /'sepǝrǝtÇzǝm/ n [U] ဂိုဏ်းခွဲဝါဒ။ သီးခြား နေရေးဝါဒ။
❏ separatist /'sepǝrǝtÇst/ n ခွဲ ထွက်ရေးဝါဒီ။ right-wing separatists ❍ a separatist organization/ movement.

More examples

My brother and I always had separate rooms.
My parents have separate bank accounts.
They’re not divorced but they lead completely separate lives (=do not do things together).
[separate from] : Clients’ funds should be kept separate from the firm’s own money.
Each apartment has its own separate entrance.
Answer each question on a separate sheet of paper.
Police have killed seven guerrillas in three separate incidents this week.
That’s an entirely separate matter.
They arrived at the party separately.

Synonyms

divide, part, disconnect, undo, split, break up, take apart, detach, abstracted, alone, apart, apportioned, assign, asunder, autonomous, become estranged, bifurcate, branch out, break, break away, break free, break it off, break off, by itself, classify, cleave, close off, comb, come apart, come away, come between, compartment, compartmentalize, cut apart, cut in two, cut off, dedomicile, depart, detached, dichotomize, different, disassociated, disconnected, discontinue, discrete, discriminate, disembodied, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, disjointed, dispersed, dissect, dissever, distant, distinct, distinctive, distribute, distributed, disunify, disunite, disunited, diverge, divergent, diverse, divided, divorce, divorced, draw apart, drop, estrange, far between, free, go away, go different ways, go separate ways, group, in halves, independent, individual, insulate, intersect, interval, intervene, island, isolate, isolated, leave, lone, loose, marked, one, only, order, part company, parted, particular, partitioned, peculiar, pull out, put asunder, put on one side, relationship or marriage alienate, removed, rope off, rupture, scattered, secede, seclude, segregate, sequester, set apart, set asunder, sever, several, severed, sift, single, single out, sole, solitary, sort, sovereign, space, split up, stand between, sunder, sundered, take leave, to itself, to one side, unattached, uncombine, unconnected, uncouple, unique, unlink, untie the knot, various, winnow, withdraw

Antonyms

agree, alike, along, amid, amidst, among, amongst, arrive, as companion, as well, associated, at same time, attach, attached, betwixt, by all of, by the whole of, close, combine, combined, come, common, connect, connected, continue, couple, coupled with, dependent, desegregate, disorder, disorganize, encompassed by, in addition to, in association with, in connection with, in dispersion through, in the class of, in the company of, in the midst of, in the thick of, join, joined, keep, like, link, marry, mend, mix, mix up, mixed, normal, out of, resembling, same, similar, standard, subservient, surrounded by, together, together with, uniform, unite, united, usual, with one another

Cross references

divide part disconnect undo split break up take apart detach abstracted alone apart apportioned assign asunder autonomous become estranged bifurcate branch out break break away break free break it off break off by itself classify cleave close off comb

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