separator

Borrowed from Latin sēparātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ/

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separator (plural separators)

2. An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
   • 1998, Elisa Ferri, Lisa Kenny, Dana Epstein, Style on Hand: Perfect Nail and Skin Care, page 44:

     When applying polish, always use toe separators to keep toes apart.

4. A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
5. One who separates; an agent performing the action of separating.
   • 1979 December 8, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Brill”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 15:

     Death, the mystery, the great separator of friend from friend and loved one from loved one

• Paratores, sea parrot, sea-parrot

From sēparō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seː.paˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [se.paˈraː.tor]

sēparātor m (genitive sēparātōris); third declension

1. separator

Third-declension noun.

• → English: separator
• → German: Separator
• → Italian: separatore (learned)
• → Portuguese: separador (learned)
• → Spanish: separador (learned)

sēparātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of sēparō

• “separator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “separator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from English separator.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.paˈra.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: se‧pa‧ra‧tor

separator m inan

1. separator (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
2. separator (a device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk)
3. (computing) delimiter (unique character or series of characters that indicates the beginning or end of a specific statement, string or function body set)

• “separator”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “separator”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “separator”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 67
• separator in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from French séparateur, from Latin separator.

separator n (plural separatori)

1. separator

separator c

1. separator (for milk)
2. kiln wash (for ceramic or glass fusing oven)