Should I use 'separate' or 'seperate'?
When writing, you should always use ‘separate’ because ‘seperate’ is simply a misspelling of ‘separate’.
‘Separate’ can be used as an adjective, a verb, or a noun. When ‘separate’ is used as a verb, it can have several meanings:
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- to keep apart or divide by a space or barrier: to separate two yards by a fence.
- to part; or force apart: to separate two fighting roosters.
- to set apart; disconnect; dissociate: to separate church and state.
- detached, disconnected, or disjoined.
- unconnected or distinct: Three separate railroads once used these facilities.
- being apart or standing apart; dispersed: The jungle has widely separate lagoons.
- women's clothing that may be worn in combination with a variety of others to make different ensembles. For example: matching and contrasting blouses, skirts, and sweaters.
Which is correct, seperate or separate?
‘Separate’ is always correct because ‘seperate’ is simply a misspelling of ‘separate’. The MLA Style GuideExamples of the use of ‘separate’
- You will be careful to keep them separate!
- And what force did he use to separate them?
- In such an arrangement there is the strength of two separate electromagnets.
- For drawings intended to have a separate existence it is one of the prettiest mediums.
- It was formed in the garrison Werder (Havel) based 26th separate special battalion and 27th separate special battalion, and 48th and 166th separate reconnaissance battalions.
- In 1727, separate Novgorod Governorate was split off.
- Gygax and Arneson again went their separate ways.
- Actors usually have their own separate call times.
- Cadier was a separate municipality until 1828.
- The sexes are separate in "Parazoanthus parasiticus".
- Justice Thomas wrote a separate concurrence.
- It is called "stardust" and is included in a separate section below.
- There was also a separate officers association.
- Defunct museums are listed in a separate section.
- This was the beginning of a separate Pentecostal movement in Sweden.
- There were separate baths for men and women.
- Iwasa and Mishima went their separate ways.
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Proper use of ‘separate’
- It is dioecious with separate male and female plants.
- The population does not include Kennebunkport, a separate town.
- If less than the requisite amount is used, some separate while others do not separate at all.
- It was formerly placed in the separate genus "Mesoscolopax".
- Each event normally constitutes a separate championship.
- Together they tried to separate the main couple.
- The division had its own website, separate from the league.
- A separate webpage article is devoted to videoconferencing.
- It is divided into five separate titles.
- There is separate hostel for girls in the city.
- It is sometimes impossible to not separate the plural form.
- The separate parishes continued with nominal existence.
- There is a separate budget for Svalbard to ensure compliance.
- The battle then split into two separate events.
- It claims to have worked with 700 separate demonstrations.
- In 1727, a separate Novgorod Governorate was split off.
- As of February 2006, Andeline had decided to separate.
- This, like Hayman's separate portrait, has been engraved.
- Under this is a screen to form separate rooms.
- However, it may be a separate partition.
Example sentences using ‘separate’
- But he never could separate himself from his homeland of Germany.
- It has a separate building to house the looms.
- This was denied by a separate panel that had ruled on this motion.
- This department was sometimes described as the Separate Department.
- Additional awards were presented at separate ceremonies.
- Some authorities place it in a separate genus, Monodia.
- It was a separate municipality until 1959, when it was merged with Opmeer.
- This left separate infant and junior schools sharing the site in separate buildings.
- Schools for girls are separate from schools for boys.
- Three separate railroads once used the facilities here.
- This breaks their relationship and they separate.
- Palea, in botany, has two separate meanings.