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nvt., Separate, free, different, apart, spare, alone, unoccupied, empty; to separate, isolate or reserve, withdraw; free time, opportunity; to take interval (military command); distance separating places or objects.

• Examples:
  • Kahi kaʻawale, wahi kaʻawale, empty space or place, secluded or isolated place, aside.
  • Manawa kaʻawale, spare or free time.
  • ʻEono mile ke kaʻawale, six miles away.
  • Kū kaʻawale, to stand apart, entirely different; independent.
  • ʻA ʻohe wahi kaʻawale o kēia pahu, there's no room left in this box.
  • ʻA ʻohe kaʻawale o kēia keiki i ka makua kāne, this boy is the exact image of his father [nothing independent or different].
  • Mawaena o lāua, ʻewalu anana ke kaʻawale (FS 145), eight fathoms distance between the two.
• Related:
  • hoʻokaʻawale Caus/sim.; To separate, distinguish (1 Nal. 3.9); to cause a division; to keep a distance or distinction; to establish as a separate entity; to set aside, appropriate, sort, segregate, reserve, discriminate, differentiate.
    • Maʻi hoʻokaʻawale, leprosy.
    • Hoʻokaʻawale i ka puʻu kālā, to appropriate a sum of money.