Diffuse and Separated

verb

• Move outward.
  • usage: "The soldiers fanned out"
  • synonyms: spread, spread out, fan out
• Spread or diffuse through.
  • usage: "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
  • synonyms: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, imbue, riddle
• Cause to become widely known.
  • usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
  • synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, disperse, pass around

adjective

• Spread out; not concentrated in one place.
  • usage: "a large diffuse organization"
• Of light. ( transmitted from a broad light source or reflected)
  • synonyms: soft, diffused
• Lacking conciseness.
  • usage: "a diffuse historical novel"

• (v.i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
• (v.t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
• (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; especially, of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

verb

• Act as a barrier between; stand between.
  • usage: "The mountain range divides the two countries"
  • synonyms: separate, divide
• Force, take, or pull apart.
  • usage: "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
  • synonyms: separate, disunite, divide, part
• Mark as different.
  • usage: "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
  • synonyms: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
• Separate into parts or portions.
  • usage: "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
  • synonyms: divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
• Divide into components or constituents.
  • usage: "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
  • synonyms: separate
• Arrange or order by classes or categories.
  • usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
  • synonyms: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
• Make a division or separation.
  • synonyms: separate, divide
• Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
  • usage: "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
  • synonyms: separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
• Go one's own way; move apart.
  • usage: "The friends separated after the party"
  • synonyms: separate, part, split
• Become separated into pieces or fragments.
  • usage: "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
  • synonyms: break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
• Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.
  • synonyms: discriminate, separate, single out
• Come apart.
  • usage: "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
  • synonyms: separate, divide, part
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate

adjective

• Being or feeling set or kept apart from others.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: detached, isolated, set-apart
• Spaced apart.
  • synonyms: spaced
• Separated at the joint.
  • usage: "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"
  • synonyms: disjointed, dislocated
• No longer connected or joined.
  • usage: "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
  • synonyms: detached