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The line that lets two things touch without ever having to talk.
means A thing, person, or part that keeps two other things apart or divides something into distinct pieces.
from Straightforward Latin ancestry: separare, 'to pull apart' — from se- (apart, aside) plus parare (to make ready, to prepare). English borrowed 'separate' in the 1400s, and the agent-noun 'separator' followed once machines and mechanisms started doing the pulling-apart for us — cream separators, egg separators, the little tab in a binder.
- egg use
- splits yolk from white, cleanly, no drama
- cream variety
- spins milk fast enough to exile the fat
- code syntax
- commas and semicolons doing all the social work
- etymology
- from latin separare, to set apart forever