A garment, such as a skirt, jacket, or pair of slacks, that may be purchased separately and worn in various combinations with other garments.
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An article of dress designed to be worn interchangeably with others to form various costume combinations .
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adjective
Archaic Withdrawn from others; solitary.
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Existing as an independent entity.
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Having undergone schism or estrangement from a parent body: Separate churches.
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Not shared; individual: two people who held separate views on the issue.
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Set or kept apart; disunited: Libraries often have a separate section for reference books.
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verb-intransitive
To become divided into components or parts: Oil and water tend to separate.
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To come apart.
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To part company; disperse.
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To stop living together as spouses.
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To withdraw: The state threatened to separate from the Union.
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verb-transitive
To differentiate or discriminate between; distinguish: a researcher who separated the various ethnic components of the population sample.
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To part (a couple), often by decree: She was separated from her husband last year.
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To remove from a mixture or combination; isolate.
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To set or keep apart; disunite.
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To sort: separate mail by postal zones.
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verb
To set or keep apart .
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To make a distinction between .
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To disperse in space or time .
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To set aside for a special purpose .
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to part by a legal .
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