segregate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate.
to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- Antonyms:
- integrate
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to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.
verb (used without object)
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to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
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to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
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Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.
noun
verb
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to set or be set apart from others or from the main group
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(tr) to impose segregation on (a racial or minority group)
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genetics metallurgy to undergo or cause to undergo segregation
Other Word Forms
- nonsegregable adjective
- nonsegregative adjective
- resegregate verb
- segregable adjective
- segregative adjective
- segregator noun
- unsegregable adjective
- unsegregating adjective
- unsegregative adjective
Etymology
Origin of segregate
1400–50 in sense “segregated”; 1535–45 as transitive v.; late Middle English segregat < Latin sēgregātus (past participle of sēgregāre to part from the flock), equivalent to sē- se- + greg- (stem of grex flock) + -ātus -ate 1; gregarious
Example Sentences
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Brain regions become more segregated, and cerebral architecture stabilizes.
These were all white boys in the segregated South, if ones utterly enthralled by the latest black-music sounds, and ready and happy to play behind the first area recording star, African-American Arthur Alexander.
Mr. Miller’s idea of creating segregated lanes or pursuing similar infrastructural innovation for self-driving cars could be worthwhile if we want, say, a high-speed autonomous autobahn.
Just a few years ago, the sight of so many Iranian women in sports gear participating in such a mass public event – even if segregated from male participants – would have been seen as a contravention.
From BBC
The system will also keep chat segregated by age group.
From Barron's
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