separate off

1. 1.

   partition by means of a divider, such as a screen

   “screen off this part of the room”

   Synonymsscreen off

   Broaderpartition

Questions about separate off

What does separate off mean?

separate off means "partition by means of a divider, such as a screen".

What is another word for separate off?

Close synonyms include screen off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is separate off a common word?

separate off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.