Breakup vs Separate - What's the difference?
breakup | separate |
The act of breaking up; disintegration or division
The termination of a friendship, or a romantic relationship
A loss of emotional control; a breakdown
(Alaska ) Spring
Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
Not together (with); not united (to).
To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
* Dryden
* Bible, Romans viii. 35
To cause (things or people) to be separate.
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(obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
* Bible, Acts xiii. 2
(usually, in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
As nouns the difference between breakup and separate
is that breakup is the act of breaking up; disintegration or division while separate is (usually|in the plural) anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.As an adjective separate is
apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).As a verb separate is
to divide (a thing) into separate parts.breakup
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
*(act of breaking up) rupture, split *(termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship) falling outAnagrams
*separate
English
Adjective
(-)- This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
- I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
Verb
(separat)- From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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- Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
