Verb

(separat)

To divide (a thing) into separate parts.

To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.

* Dryden

From the fine gold I separate the alloy.

* Bible, Romans viii. 35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

To cause (things or people) to be separate.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.

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

* Bible, Acts xiii. 2

Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Verb

(head)

(diverge)

Verb

(diverg)

(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

* 1916 , :

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /

To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.

(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).

The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.

To become different, to separate (from another line or path).

The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.

Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

The sequence $x\_n\; =\; n^2$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.