Segregate

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, a. [L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare
     to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd.
     See {Gregarious}.]
     1. Separate; select.
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     2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Segregated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Segregating}.]
     To separate from others; to set apart.
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           They are still segregated, Christians from Christians,
           under odious designations.               --I. Taylor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, v. i. (Geol.)
     To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers
     or along lines of fracture, as in the process of
     crystallization or solidification.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  segregate
       v 1: separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial
            segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We
            don't segregate in this county" [ant: {desegregate}]
       2: divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns
          segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly
          that genes segregate"
       3: separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a
          group apart from others; "the sun degregates the carbon";
          "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  141 Moby Thesaurus words for "segregate":
     abrupt, alien, alienate, analyze, anatomize, apart, atomize, bolt,
     cast off, cast out, change, choose, chop logic, close off,
     contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, cull out, cut adrift,
     cut off, cut out, delete, demarcate, demark, depart, desynonymize,
     detached, difference, differentiate, disarticulate, disconnect,
     disconnected, discrete, discriminate, disengage, disequalize,
     disjoin, disjoint, disjunct, disrelated, dissociate, dissociated,
     distinguish, disunite, diversify, divide, divorce, draw the line,
     eject, enisle, estrange, exotic, expel, extraneous, foreign,
     ghettoize, gin, incommensurable, incomparable, independent,
     individualize, individuate, insular, insulate, irrelative, island,
     isolate, isolated, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, leave,
     make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface,
     modify, other, outlandish, part, particularize, personalize,
     pick out, pull away, pull back, pull out, put aside, quarantine,
     refine a distinction, removed, riddle, rope off, screen,
     screen out, seal off, seclude, select, separate, separated,
     sequester, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever,
     severalize, shut off, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, single,
     sort, sort out, specialize, split, split hairs, stand aloof,
     stand apart, stand aside, step aside, strange, subdivide,
     subtilize, subtract, thrash, thresh, throw off, throw out,
     unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, uncouple,
     unrelatable, unrelated, unyoke, vary, winnow, withdraw