separation
US: /ˌsɛpɝˈeɪʃən/
UK: /sˌɛpəɹˈeɪʃən/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
separation /,sepə'reiʃn/- danh từ
- sự phân ly, sự chia cắt
- sự chia tay, sự biệt ly
- (pháp lý) sự biệt cư
- judicial separation: sự biệt cư do toà quyết định
- sự chia rẽ
- separation allowance
- phần tiền lương (của quân nhân...) chuyển cho vợ con
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [U, sing.] ~ (from sb/sth)
~ (between A and B) the act of separating people or things; the state of being separate: the state's eventual separation from the federation + the need for a clear separation between Church and State
2 [C] a period of time that people spend apart from each other: They were reunited after a separation of more than 20 years. + Prolonged separations of this kind are damaging to very young children.
3 [C] a decision that a husband and wife make to live apart while they are still legally married: a legal separation + Sixty per cent of all marital separations occur before the tenth year of marriage.
Compare: DIVORCE
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 rift, break, split, split-up, divorce, break-up, disunion, estrangement:
Their separation, after forty years, was a surprise.
2 partition, division, split, schism, dividing line, dissociation, disassociation, severance:
The United States constitution provides for the separation of church and state.
3 disintegration, shattering, break-up, fragmentation, dismemberment, taking or keeping apart, segregation, division, disjoining, disjunction, fission, scission, rupture, schism, splitting, split, fracturing, fracture, break:
After a crash, investigators supervise the separation of the aeroplane into its tens of thousands of component parts.
Collocation
1 being apart
ADJ.
complete, total | clear, rigid, strict | long
She is visiting her family after a long separation.
| physical
PREP.
~ between
the clear separation of powers between the executive and the legislature
| ~ from
the separation of children from their parents during the war
2 when a married couple lives apart
ADJ.
formal, judicial, legal | trial
SEPARATION + NOUN
agreement, order
PREP.
~ between
the separation between Mary and her husband
| ~ from
the separation from his wife
Concise dictionary
separations‚sepə'reɪʃnnoun
+the act of dividing or disconnecting
+coming apart
+the state of lacking unity
+the distance between things
+sorting one thing from others
+the social act of separating or parting company
+the space where a division or parting occurs
+the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
+(law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
