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separately

adv
/ˈsɛp.(ə.)ɹət.li/UK/ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/US/ˈsep.(ə.)ɹət.li/

Etymology

From separate + -ly.

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”
  2. derived from sēparātus
  3. inherited from separaten
  4. formed as separately — “separate + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a separate manner

    In a separate manner; not together; apart.

    • We've been living separately for three years.
    • Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.
    • Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at separately. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at separately. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at separately

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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