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What does set apart mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word set apart? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose.
  2. To distinguish, make obvious the distinction between (two things) or of (something).
  3. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: to separate or isolate.
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The CPS was set apart by the timeliness with which it responded to an ever-changing landscape.
The shifting set apart, the director Joe Dowling eschews any tricksiness, instead concentrating on making the most of his talented cast.
Every day saw him engaged in cultivating a taste for literature and art, and some moments of every day were set apart for social gallantries.
He lives in rooms set apart from the rest of the house, to allow him some independence from his parents.
To be sanctified means to be set apart from the values of the world, to live for God.
We saw the process of taking a wheel set apart, shaving down the wheel to fit an axle, and the reassembling of the wheel set.

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