different between separate vs rogue

English

Etymology

Latin separatus, perfect passive participle of separare (“to separate”), from Latin s?- (“apart”) +? par? (“prepare”). Displaced Middle English scheden, from Old English sc?adan (whence English shed).

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /?s?p??t/, /?s?p???t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?s?p??e?t/
• Hyphenation: sep?a?rate

Adjective

separate (not comparable)

1. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).

   This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.

2. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).

   I try to keep my personal life separate from work.

Translations

Verb

separate (third-person singular simple present separates, present participle separating, simple past and past participle separated)

1. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.

2. (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
   • 1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry

     From the fine gold I separate the allay [alloy].

   • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

3. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.

4. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.

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

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

Synonyms

• (divide into separate parts): partition, split; see also Thesaurus:divide
• (disunite something from one thing): See also Thesaurus:disjoin
• (cause to be separate): split up, tear apart
• (divide itself): break down, come apart, disintegrate, fall apart
• (select from among others): earmark, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Antonyms

• annex
• combine

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

separate (plural separates)

1. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.

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Usage notes

• The spelling is separate (-par-). seperate (-per-) is a common misspelling.

See also

• disunite
• disconnect
• divide
• split
• reduce
• subtract

Anagrams

• asperate

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

separate

1. inflection of separat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Verb

separate

1. second-person plural indicative present of separare
2. second-person plural imperative of separare

Latin

Verb

s?par?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of s?par?

References

• separate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• separate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• separate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

separate

1. definite singular of separat
2. plural of separat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

separate

1. definite singular of separat
2. plural of separat

English

Etymology

Uncertain. From either:

• Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rog? (“I ask”).
• Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), though OED does not document this.
• Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?g, IPA^(key): /??????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

rogue (plural rogues)

1. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
   • 1834, Sir Walter Scott, The abbott: being a sequel to The monastery, Volume 19

     And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]

   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[2]

     As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.

2. A mischievous scamp.
3. A vagrant.
4. (computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
5. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
6. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
   • 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.

     Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.

7. (role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:villain

Translations

Adjective

rogue (comparative more rogue, superlative most rogue)

1. (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
2. (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
3. (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
   • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.

4. Mischievous, unpredictable.

Translations

Verb

rogue (third-person singular simple present rogues, present participle roguing or rogueing, simple past and past participle rogued)

1. (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
   • 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.

     Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.

2. (transitive, dated) To cheat.
   • 1883, Prairie Farmer (volume 55, page 29)

     And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact.

3. (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

Derived terms

See also

• rouge the shade of red

Anagrams

• orgue, rouge

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Etymology 1

From Middle French rogue, from Old Northern French *rogue (“fish eggs”), from Old Norse hrogn (“roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugn? (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“spawn, frogspawn”). More at roe.

Noun

rogue f (plural rogues)

1. roe (fish eggs)

Etymology 2

From Middle French rogue, from Old French rogre (“haughty; aggressive; exhilarated”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess; insolence”). Cognate with Icelandic hrokur (“arrogance”).

Adjective

rogue (plural rogues)

1. haughty
2. contemptuous
3. roguish

Further reading

• “rogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rogre (“haughty; aggressive; exhilarated”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess; insolence”). Cognate with Icelandic hrokur (“arrogance”).

Adjective

rogue m or f (plural rogues)

1. arrogant; haughty

Portuguese

Verb

rogue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rogar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rogar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rogar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rogar