separate out

phrasal verb

separated out; separating out; separates out

: to remove (someone or something) from a group

Before you put out the trash, you have to separate out the bottles and cans.

Most schools separate out children with learning problems.

Examples of separate out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adding a catalyst also helps separating out molecular components, like heavy metals, which can then be removed and contained. —Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025

After bringing tens of kilograms of sandstones back to the lab, the team crushed them to separate out hundreds of individual grains. —Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025

Considering that the saved data is separated out like this, having another game read that data shouldn’t be difficult, at least in a technical sense. —Ollie Barder, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025

There are a couple reasons to do this; one is to separate out the sediment from the bottom of the bottle, the other is to aerate wine. —Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 7 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for separate out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout