a. Designed or employed to separate. [ 1913 Webster ]
Separating funnel (Chem.), a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ちゅうもん, chuumon](n) (1) (See 寝殿造り, 対の屋, 釣り殿) gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture); (2) central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple); (3) central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)[Add to Longdo]
[しらす, shirasu](n) (1) bar of white sand; (2) gravel separating a noh stage from the audience; (3) (arch) (See お白州) court of law(in the Edo period)[Add to Longdo]
[しらすばしご, shirasubashigo](n) (See 白洲・2) stairs at the front of a noh stage, which go over the white gravel separating the audience from the stage[Add to Longdo]