(idiomatic, intransitive) To select only that which is of value.

(pathology) A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.

simple past tense and past participle of separate

Detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart. / (of spouses) Estranged; living apart but not divorced.

Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatics.

Advocating ecclesiastical separation. / Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.

A small-scale watertight treatment system for domestic sewage in which the flow is slowed to allow sedimentation and sludge digestion by bacteria to take place.

(linguistics) An affix that can be detached from the word it attaches to in several instances.

(linguistics) A verb that is composed of a stem and a separable affix, which can be detached from the stem in several verb forms.

Able to be separated. / (differential equations) Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.