segregate

Meanings

Plural: segregates

Noun

• someone who is or has been segregated
• An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

Verb

• separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
  • "This neighborhood is segregated"
  • "We don't segregate in this county"
• divide from the main body or mass and collect
  • "Many towns segregated into new counties"
  • "Experiments show clearly that genes 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"
• To separate, especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.

Adj

• Separate; select.
• Separated from others of the same kind.
• Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.

Synonyms

insulate, isolate, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, sunder out

Antonyms

aggregate, coalesce, desegregate, lump together

Related Words

segregation, unmix

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