set apart
set apart
separate, divide; set aside, allocate; allot
Set Apart
Setting apart
set apart
Verb
1. select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
(synonym) assign, specify
(hypernym) choose, take, select, pick out
(hyponym) dedicate
2. set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
(synonym) sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, isolate
(hypernym) separate, disunite, divide, part
set-apart
Adjective
1. being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
(synonym) detached, isolated, separated
(similar) separate
Anathema
separated; set apart
Pharisees
set apart
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
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set apart
Synonyms and related words:
abrupt, abscind, alienate, allocate, allot, amputate, analyze, anatomize, annihilate, appoint, appropriate to, assign, assign to, atomize, ban, bar, be characteristic, beatify, bless, bob, bolt, canonize, cast off, cast out, change, characterize, chop logic, cleanse, clip, commit, consecrate, conserve, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, crop, cull, cull out, cut, cut adrift, cut away, cut off, cut out, dedicate, define, delete, demarcate, demark, depart, describe, destine, desynonymize, detail, devote, difference, differentiate, disarticulate, disconnect, discriminate, disengage, disequalize, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, diversify, divide, divorce, dock, draw the line, earmark, eject, eliminate, enshrine, enucleate, eradicate, estrange, exalt, except, excise, exclude, expel, extinguish, extirpate, fate, fence off, ghettoize, gin, glorify, hallow, hold back, husband, individualize, individuate, insulate, interspace, interval, isolate, keep, keep apart, keep aside, keep back, keep by one, keep in reserve, keep in store, keep on hand, keynote, knock off, lay aside, lay by, leave, lop, lot, make a distinction, make a space, make assignments, mark, mark off, mark out, mark out for, mark the interface, modify, mutilate, nip, ordain, panel, pare, part, particularize, partition, peel, personalize, pick out, portion off, preserve, prune, pull away, pull back, pull out, purify, put apart, put aside, put by, quarantine, refine a distinction, remove, reserve, restrict, restrict to, retain, riddle, root out, rule out, saint, sanctify, save, save up, schedule, screen, screen out, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set, set a limit, set aside, set at intervals, set by, set off, set the pace, set the tone, sever, severalize, shave, shear, shut off, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sort, sort out, sound the keynote, space, space out, specialize, split, split hairs, stamp out, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, strike off, strip, strip off, subdivide, subtilize, subtract, tag, take off, take out, thrash, thresh, throw off, throw out, truncate, uncouple, unyoke, vary, wall off, winnow, wipe out, withdraw, withhold
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.