Definition of separating

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Separating (a.) Designed or employed to separate.

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Smelt :: Smelt (v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin..
Slough :: Slough (n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
Nemathecium :: Nemathecium (n.) A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores..
Taenia :: Taenia (n.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave..
Rocker :: Rocker (n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water..
Rupture :: Rupture (n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring..
Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock..
Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.
Jigging :: "Jigging (n.) The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water..
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..
Septum :: Septum (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum..
Open :: Open (v. t.) To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers..
Parclose :: Parclose (n.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.
Liquation :: Liquation (n.) The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation..
Separatory :: Separatory (n.) An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel..
Partition :: Partition (v.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions..
Pyrenean :: Pyrenean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain..
Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them..
Ab- :: Ab- () A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6)..
Dialytic :: Dialytic (a.) Having the quality of unloosing or separating.
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