Fold
Fold verb - To lay one part over or against another part of.
Separate
Separate verb - To set or force apart.
Common collocations
| characters | fold characters | separate characters |
| space | fold space | separate space |
| hands | fold hands | separate hands |
| pieces | fold pieces | separate pieces |
Both words in one sentence
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has Quadruple Legged Tank, which can fold its treads as a regular tank, or separate into four legs allowing it to walk over trenches.
Source: Walking Tank -
Tales of Monkey Island got the forest on Flotsam that is a puzzle three separate times, the two first times requires following instructions from maps and the third requires folding a map to fold the forest itself.
Source: The Maze -
Paz, or rather, Pacifica Ocean actually tops them all (and that's even assuming Zadornov's plan on MSF was separate of Paz's), as she, under orders from Cipher, manipulated everything in the mission so that they could either recruit Big Boss back into the fold or eliminate him/frame MSF.
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