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Definitions: Separative |
SeparativeAdjective1. (Hebrew orthography; used of an accent) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word at follows it. 2. Serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative". 3. (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group; "whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Separative \Sep"a*ra*tive\, adjective. [Latin expression separativus.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SeparativeSynonym: partitive (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: separative efficiency (nuclear energy & physics), separative element (chemistry), separative element of isotopes (nuclear energy & physics, meteorology & standards), separative potential, separative power of isotopes, separative signal (transportation), separative work (labornuclear energy & physics, chemistry), Separative Work Administration Pool (public administration), separative work of isotopes (nuclear energy & physics, meteorology & standards), separative work unit (nuclear energy & physics, meteorology & standardslabornuclear energy & physics), Separative Work Units Corporation (industry), unit of separative work (labor), value function (nuclear energy & physics, meteorology & standards). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Decomposition | Adjective: decomposed; Verb: catalytic, analytical; resolvent, separative, solvent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Separative |
| English words defined with "separative": Separatory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "separative": separative work, separative work unit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "separative": Diastatic. (references) |
| "Separative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Separative" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "separative": separative work ♦ separative work unit. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "separative": non-separative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "separative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاصل (bar, break, conclusive, decisive, dividing, entr'acte, interval), مفرق (divided, parting, retail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сепаративен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Scheidingsarbeid (separative work), SA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, separative work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | TS (separative work), travail de séparation des isotopes (separative work of isotopes), Travail de séparation (separative work), puissance de séparation des isotopes (separative power of isotopes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | trennend (disassociating, disconnecting, disjoining, disjunctive, dissociating, dissociative, disuniting, seceding, segregating, separating, severing, sundering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωριστικόσ (partitive, separatist, separatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 분리 (Detachment, disjunction, Segregating, segregation, Separating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eparativesay разделительный (partitive, separatory, underbar). (various references) phân ly (dissociative, segregative), chia rẽ; phân cách. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-s-t-v" | |
-2 letters: asperate, aspirate, parasite, parietes, privates, separate, septaria, variates. | |
-3 letters: aerates, aeriest, aperies, apteria, aristae, asteria, atresia, aviates, parties, parvise, pastier, paviser, peatier, peavies, pestier, piaster, piastre, pirates, previse, private, privets, repaves, repeats, respite, restive, retapes, seriate, spaviet, spiraea, traipse, variate, vastier, veriest, veritas, verites. | |
-4 letters: aerate, aeries, airest, aivers, aretes, arista, aspire, averse. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-s-t-v" | |
+2 letters: preparatives, prevaricates. | |
+4 letters: overcapacities. | |
+5 letters: comparativeness, overcapitalizes, predevaluations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 70 61 72 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . .--. .- .-. .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01110000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e p a r a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0070 0061 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53718267846786758871 |
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