📖 S — The English dictionary · page 27

sep — Everyday, meaning 1: Sep or Sep. is a short form of September, the ninth month.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sep. can be a short form of «separate» in notes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a lower-case «sep», it is usually a fragment of a longer word, not a word on its own.↗ Example: On the calendar, Sep is short for September.↗ · The school year in England starts in Sep.↗ · Some people write Sept instead of Sep.↗ · Jan, Feb, Mar …↗ Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.↗ · «Sep» on the label shows the month the jam is best before.↗ · Write the full word, September, in your story.↗

sepal — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A sepal is one of the small, usually green, leaf-like parts under the petals of a flower that protect the bud before it opens.↗ Example: The sepals protect the flower bud.↗ · Label the petals and sepals on the diagram.↗ · A rose has five green sepals.↗ · When the bud opens, the sepals fold back.↗ · Count the sepals: there are 5.↗

separable — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: able to be separated or divided.↗

separate — Everyday, meaning 1: As an adjective, not joined or together; apart or different: two separate rooms, separate piles.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As a verb, to move things or people apart, or to divide a mixture into its parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To stop living together, as when parents separate.↗ Example: Separate the red counters from the blue ones.↗ · Use a filter to separate the sand from the water.↗ · My sister and I have separate bedrooms.↗ · Keep raw chicken separate from salad.↗ · A magnet can separate iron filings from sand.↗ · We separate our rubbish for recycling.↗ · The teacher separated the two boys who were chatting.↗ · Write each answer on a separate line.↗ · Then Rasalu said, "Separate the millet seed from the sand."↗ · Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'↗ (Torah DEU.19.7, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.'↗ (Torah NUM.16.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine.↗ (Torah NUM.8.14, JPS 1917)↗ · also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.↗ (Prophets EZK.41.14, JPS 1917)↗ · In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers, (Prophets EZK.42.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; (Prophets EZK.41.13, JPS 1917)↗

separated — Everyday, meaning 1: Separated means apart, not together any more.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Separated is the past form of separate: to move things or people apart, or to sort them into groups.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: When parents are separated, they have decided to live apart.↗ Example: I got separated from Mum in the supermarket.↗ · We separated the sand from the water by filtering.↗ · The class was separated into four groups of six.↗ · My parents are separated, so I have two homes.↗ · The twins were separated by only a few minutes.↗ · The magnet separated the iron filings from the sand.↗ · The two countries are separated by a river.↗ · If you are separated from your group, stay where you are.↗ · Then they bade each other farewell and separated.↗ · Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; (Torah DEU.4.41, JPS 1917)↗ · So Lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other.↗ (Torah GEN.13.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him: 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward; (Torah GEN.13.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Then I separated twelve of the chiefs of the priests, besides Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, (Writings EZR.8.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the alien mixture.↗ (Writings NEH.13.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.↗ (Writings NEH.9.2, JPS 1917)↗

separately — Everyday, meaning 1: Separately means apart, not together; one at a time or each on its own.↗ Example: Wash the white and dark clothes separately.↗ · The twins arrived separately.↗ · Work out each step separately.↗ · Put the glass and paper in the recycling separately.↗ · We tested each magnet separately.↗ · The toys are sold separately.↗ · They live separately now.↗ · The lawn was as green as if each blade of grass was cleaned separately morning and evening.↗

separation — Everyday, meaning 1: Separation is moving things apart or keeping them apart.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Separation is the space or distance between things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Separation is a time when people are apart, especially when parents stop living together.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In science, separation is splitting a mixture into its parts, by filtering, sieving or evaporating.↗ Example: Filtering is a method of separation.↗ · We used a magnet for separation of iron and sand.↗ · After their separation, my parents live in two houses.↗ · Puppies can get upset by separation from their mum.↗ · Keep a separation of two metres.↗ · The separation of salt from water needs heat.↗ · Separation anxiety made the toddler cry when Mum left.↗ · Sieving is used for the separation of rice and flour.↗ · Thus passed the first miles; and then the Raven bade her farewell, and this was the most painful separation of all.↗ · He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.20, JPS 1917)↗

separator — Everyday, meaning 1: Something that keeps two things apart or divides one thing into parts, such as a line, a wall or a sheet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A machine that splits a mixture into its parts, for example cream from milk or oil from water.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computing, writing) A symbol such as a comma, a full stop, a slash or a space that shows where one item ends and the next begins.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) The symbol used to split groups of digits or the whole part from the decimal part, like the point in 3.5.↗ Example: Put a cardboard separator between the layers of cups so they don't break.↗ · A cream separator spins milk very fast so the cream comes out.↗ · In the list «red, blue, green» the comma is the separator.↗ · In the UK and USA the decimal separator is a dot, but in France it is a comma.↗ · The folder has coloured separators for each subject.↗ · We used a magnet as a separator to pull iron filings out of the sand.↗ · Type a space as the separator between the numbers.↗ · The farmer's separator splits the grain from the chaff.↗

sepsis — Everyday, meaning 1: (medicine) A very serious illness that happens when the body's fight against an infection goes wrong and starts to harm its own organs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (older use) Any poisoning of the body by germs from a wound or infection.↗ Example: Sepsis can start from a small cut that gets badly infected.↗ · The nurse said sepsis is an emergency and needs treatment fast.↗ · Doctors gave him antibiotics to fight the sepsis.↗ · Before germs were understood, many soldiers died of sepsis after battles.↗ · Keep a scrape clean so it does not get infected.↗ · If someone is very ill, confused and breathing fast, an adult should ask a doctor about sepsis.↗ · Florence Nightingale's clean hospitals helped cut deaths from infection.↗ · She spent a week in hospital with sepsis but made a full recovery.↗

sept — Everyday, meaning 1: «Sept» (with a capital S and often a full stop) is a short form of September, the ninth month.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) A sept is a branch of a clan or family, especially in Ireland and Scotland.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sept is also the French word for the number seven.↗ Example: School starts again in Sept.↗ · The form said «Sept.» instead of September.↗ · The family belonged to a sept of the clan.↗ · Each sept had its own lands.↗ · The ninth month, Sept, has 30 days.↗

september — Everyday, meaning 1: September is the ninth month of the year.↗ It has 30 days.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the northern half of the world (USA, UK, Canada, Ireland) it is the start of autumn and of the school year; in Australia and New Zealand it is the start of spring.↗ Example: September has 30 days.↗ · School starts in September.↗ · She saved 2 dollars a day in September.↗ · How many days from September to December?↗ · September is the ninth month.↗ · In Canada the leaves start to change colour in September.↗ · In New Zealand, spring begins in September.↗ · «Thirty days has September, April, June and November.»↗ · It was a lovely starlight night in the beginning of September, and the air was mild and still.↗ · NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned at sacred-texts.com, September 2005.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

septic — Everyday, meaning 1: (of a wound or body part) Infected with germs so it becomes red, swollen, painful and full of pus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A septic tank is an underground tank where waste from toilets is broken down by bacteria, used by homes not joined to the main sewers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Australia, UK, slang) A septic is an American; it comes from rhyming slang «septic tank» = «Yank».↗ It can sound mocking.↗ Example: Clean that cut, or it might go septic.↗ · His toe went septic after he stood on a rusty nail.↗ · The farmhouse has a septic tank instead of a sewer pipe.↗ · A truck comes every few years to empty the septic tank.↗ · The doctor gave her cream for a septic insect bite.↗ · (Australia, slang) "Who's the bloke with the accent?" "↗ Some septic on holiday."↗ · Wash your hands before you touch a blister so it doesn't turn septic.↗

sepulchre — Everyday, meaning 1: A sepulchre is a stone tomb or grave cut into rock or built to hold a dead body.↗ Example: The knight dug beside the old sepulchre.↗ · Inside the sepulchre lay a stone box.↗ · Beneath the sepulchre he found a trap-door.↗ · And he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.↗ (Torah DEU.34.6, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'↗ (Torah GEN.23.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.↗ (Prophets JER.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem.↗ (Prophets 2SA.2.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.↗ (Prophets 2KI.21.26, JPS 1917)↗

sequel — Everyday, meaning 1: A sequel is a book, film or game that continues the story of an earlier one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sequel can also be something that happens after and because of an earlier event.↗ Example: The sequel was even better than the first film.↗ · We are writing a sequel to «The Gruffalo» in class.↗ · Fans waited three years for the sequel.↗ · The game's sequel has new levels and characters.↗ · Is there a sequel to this book?↗ · As a sequel to the storm, the river flooded.↗ · Most sequels keep the same hero.↗ · His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones.↗

sequence — Everyday, meaning 1: A set of things that come one after another in a certain order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) A list of numbers or shapes that follow a rule (2, 4, 6, 8 …).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The order in which things happen (put the pictures in sequence).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A part of a film or a story showing connected events.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To put things in order; (science) to find the order of parts in DNA.↗ Example: What is the next number in the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12?↗ · Put the story pictures in the right sequence.↗ · The sequence goes up by 5 each time.↗ · A computer follows a sequence of instructions.↗ · The film has an exciting chase sequence.↗ · The pages are out of sequence.↗ · Scientists sequenced the virus's genes.↗ · But I have in one case altered the sequence of events putting the fight with the giant last."↗

sequential — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming one after another in a fixed order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Done step by step, finishing one step before starting the next.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths, computing) Following a sequence or pattern, like numbers that go up by one each time.↗ Example: The pages are numbered in sequential order.↗ · Our coding lesson showed that a computer follows sequential instructions.↗ · The raffle tickets had sequential numbers from 101 to 150.↗ · Put the pictures of the story in sequential order.↗ · The recipe gives sequential steps: mix, pour, then bake.↗ · The house numbers on our street are not sequential, which confuses the postman.↗ · We read the chapters sequentially, not jumping ahead.↗

sequin — Everyday, meaning 1: A sequin is a small, flat, shiny disc sewn onto clothes to sparkle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A sequin is a gold coin, as in fairy tales about treasure.↗ Example: Our father left us each a thousand sequins.↗ · She placed a purse full of sequins in the old woman's hand.↗ · I dug up the three thousand sequins I had buried.↗