Meaning of separately in English

separately

adverb

/ˈsep.ər.ət.li/ us

/ˈsep.ɚ.ət.li/

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not together:

Detectives interviewed the men separately over several days.

I tend to wear the jacket and skirt separately rather than as a suit.

I think we'd better deal with these two points separately.

Synonyms

independently
individually
severally formal or specialized
singly

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I like both flavours separately but I don't like them together.
Each instrument is recorded separately on a 24- or 48-track tape.
I thought I'd do the two tasks separately.
I spoke to the children separately.
You can always wear the two parts of a suit separately.

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(Definition of separately from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of separately

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None of the studies presents a fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of error patterns, for type of article and gender separately.

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Given the observed difference between men and women as regards to psychological distress, all analyses were conducted separately for men and women.

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Figure 2 summarizes seed selectivities ranked by mass for each granivore class separately.

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The information variables have been considered first separately, then in an additive model.

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Two different trained coders rated all of the children's responses separately for the drawing and the playing scenarios.

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During the estimation of turnover rate, each fraction of these gaps was used separately.

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Table 5 shows the results of a multivariate analysis for regular verbs, considering grammatical persons separately.

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This analysis could not be performed separately for men and women due to the small number of participants in certain groups.

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Distances between neighboring cells were measured separately in the central and peripheral retina in both juvenile and adult animals.

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We will also be able to bootstrap the stable and unstable directions separately.

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On the other hand, where identical discrepancies occur in the analysis of separate instances of identical wording, each instance is counted separately.

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Simulations were performed separately for each locus, conditioned on the number of sequences, length of the locus and the number of segregating sites.

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We identify signals by cone type, because we monitor them separately using cone-isolating stimuli.

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The data related to late pregnancy and to lactation were analysed separately.

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These statements are parsed separately and read in at the appropriate times during the run.

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