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seg·re·gate

(sĕg′rĭ-gāt′)

v. seg·re·gat·ed, seg·re·gat·ing, seg·re·gates

v.tr.

1. To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. See Synonyms at isolate.

2. To cause (people or institutions, for example) to be separated on the basis of race, sex, religion, or another factor.

v.intr.

1. To become separated or distinguished: animals that segregate into male and female herds when not in mating season.

2. To practice a policy of racial segregation.

3. Genetics To undergo genetic segregation.

adj. (-gĭt, -gāt′)

Separated; isolated.

n. (-gĭt, -gāt′)

1. One that is or has been segregated.

2. Genetics See segregant.

[Latin sēgregāre, sēgregāt- : sē-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots.]

seg′re·ga′tive adj.

seg′re·ga′tor n.

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segregate

(ˈsɛɡrɪˌɡeɪt)

1. to set or be set apart from others or from the main group

2. (Sociology) (tr) to impose segregation on (a racial or minority group)

3. (Metallurgy) genetics metallurgy to undergo or cause to undergo segregation

[C16: from Latin sēgregāre, from sē- apart + grex a flock]

segregable adj

ˈsegreˌgative adj

ˈsegreˌgator n

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seg•re•gate

(v. ˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪt; n. -gɪt, -ˌgeɪt)

v. -gat•ed, -gat•ing,
n. v.t.

1. to separate or set apart from others; isolate.

2. to require, often with force, the separation of (a specific racial, religious, or other group) from the body of society.

v.i.

3. to become segregated.

4. to practice or require segregation, esp. racial segregation.

5. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.

6. a segregated thing, person, or group.

[1535–45; < Latin sēgregātus, past participle of sēgregāre to separate, dissociate =sē- se- + -gregāre, v. derivative of grex, s. greg flock; see -ate¹]

seg′re•ga•ble (-gə bəl) adj.

seg′re•ga`tive, adj.

segregate

Past participle: segregated
Gerund: segregating

Imperative
segregate
segregate

Present
I segregate
you segregate
he/she/it segregates
we segregate
you segregate
they segregate

Preterite
I segregated
you segregated
he/she/it segregated
we segregated
you segregated
they segregated

Present Continuous
I am segregating
you are segregating
he/she/it is segregating
we are segregating
you are segregating
they are segregating

Present Perfect
I have segregated
you have segregated
he/she/it has segregated
we have segregated
you have segregated
they have segregated

Past Continuous
I was segregating
you were segregating
he/she/it was segregating
we were segregating
you were segregating
they were segregating

Past Perfect
I had segregated
you had segregated
he/she/it had segregated
we had segregated
you had segregated
they had segregated

Future
I will segregate
you will segregate
he/she/it will segregate
we will segregate
you will segregate
they will segregate

Future Perfect
I will have segregated
you will have segregated
he/she/it will have segregated
we will have segregated
you will have segregated
they will have segregated

Future Continuous
I will be segregating
you will be segregating
he/she/it will be segregating
we will be segregating
you will be segregating
they will be segregating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been segregating
you have been segregating
he/she/it has been segregating
we have been segregating
you have been segregating
they have been segregating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been segregating
you will have been segregating
he/she/it will have been segregating
we will have been segregating
you will have been segregating
they will have been segregating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been segregating
you had been segregating
he/she/it had been segregating
we had been segregating
you had been segregating
they had been segregating

Conditional
I would segregate
you would segregate
he/she/it would segregate
we would segregate
you would segregate
they would segregate

Past Conditional
I would have segregated
you would have segregated
he/she/it would have segregated
we would have segregated
you would have segregated
they would have segregated

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Noun	1.	segregate - someone who is or has been segregated individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
Verb	1.	segregate - separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" discriminate, single out, separate - treat differently on the basis of sex or race desegregate, integrate, mix - open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated"
	2.	segregate - divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate" divide, part, separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
	3.	segregate - separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims" isolate, insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"

segregate

verb set apart, divide, separate, isolate, single out, discriminate against, dissociate They segregate you from the rest of the party.
unite, mix, unify, amalgamate, join together, desegregate

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segregate

verb

To set apart from a group:

close off, cut off, insulate, isolate, seclude, separate, sequester.

Translations

يَعْزِل، يَفْصِل

oddělit

adskille

trennen

séparer trier

aîskilja

segregare segregazione segregazione razziale

segregacija

atdalītnošķirt

segregere skille raser fra hverandre

ayırmak

分出隔离

segregate

[ˈsegrɪgeɪt] VT → segregar, separar (from de) to be segregated from → estar separado de

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

segregate

[ˈsɛgrɪgeɪt] vt → ségréguer

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

segregate

vt individuals → absondern; group of population → nach Rassen/Geschlechtern/Konfessionen trennen; activities, facilities → nach gewissen Gesichtspunkten unterteilen; to be segregated from somebody/something → von jdm/etw abgesondert sein; segregated (racially, church) → nur für Weiße/Schwarze; school also → mit Rassentrennung; society → nach Rassen getrennt

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segregate

[ˈsɛgrɪˌgeɪt] vt to segregate (from) → separare (da), segregare (da)

segregate

(ˈsegrigeit) verb

to separate from others; to keep (people, groups etc) apart from each other. At the swimming-pool, the sexes are segregated.

ˌsegreˈgation (-ʃən) noun

References in classic literature ?

It was with just such blades as these that these splendid heroes of romance used to segregate a man, so to speak, and leave the half of him to fall one way and the other half the other.

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We could not segregate the sick, nor could we care for them.

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But Jones, as well as Partridge, was an entire stranger in London; and as he happened to arrive first in a quarter of the town, the inhabitants of which have very little intercourse with the householders of Hanover or Grosvenor-square (for he entered through Gray's-inn-lane), so he rambled about some time before he could even find his way to those happy mansions where fortune segregates from the vulgar those magnanimous heroes, the descendants of antient Britons, Saxons, or Danes, whose ancestors, being born in better days, by sundry kinds of merit, have entailed riches and honour on their posterity.

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'Kailangan nating i-segregate ang basura natin pero hindi sapat yung nabubulok at di-nabubulok lang (We should segregate our garbage but it's not enough to segregate biodegradable from non-biodegradable,' he said in an interview Wednesday.

Dagupan enforces 'no segregation, no collection' policy

The study cites numerous examples of this sort of neo-segregation: Forty-six percent (80 colleges out of the 173 surveyed) segregate student orientation programs, 43 percent (75 colleges) offer segregated residential arrangements, 72 percent (125) segregate graduation ceremonies, 68 percent of the colleges surveyed offer minority students an expense-paid segregated preview of college, 85 percent of the colleges have "multicultural centers," and 34 percent had specifically black cultural centers.

Segregation Returning to American College Campuses

When you get all the facilities in the workshop, garbage truck and manpower ready, you can start to segregate your waste.

Segregation of waste

Summary: Residents can segregate wastes at home and drop them in designated chutes

First recyclables collection centre opens in Abu Dhabi

This was done to encourage people to segregate waste.

Youth leads waste management project in T/Yangste

Bengaluru has become the first city in India to segregate as much as 50% of its waste Though it's now more famous for Hindu extremism folllowing the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh.

Waste Capital

Surely any alphabet ordered on a rational basis would, at the very least, segregate vowels from consonants.

Segregated Lettershifts

* The Quirk: The insurer is domiciled in Wisconsin, the only state that allows regulators to segregate delinquent accounts while letting the parent continue operations unaffected.

Old problem, new solution: Wisconsin's unique segregated account law for delinquent insurers saves a major player in the financial securities space

If we do not segregate, we limit the quantity that can be recycled.

Each resident can contribute toward minimising waste

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