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Segregate   /sˈɛgrəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Segregate

verb
(past & past part. segregated; pres. part. segregating)
1.
Separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation.  "We don't segregate in this county"
2.
Divide from the main body or mass and collect.  "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
3.
Separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others.  "Large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"





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"Segregate" Quotes from Famous Books



... voluminous, neat, smoothly written, extremely convincing batch of bold-faced lies. Lies about David Ingersoll. Somewhere, at the bottom of those lies was a shred or two of truth, a shred hard to analyze, impossible to segregate from the garbage surrounding it. But somebody had written the lies. That meant that somebody knew the truths ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse


Words linked to "Segregate" :   person, insulate, soul, discriminate, part, isolate, separate, individual, desegregate, someone, segregation, mortal, divide, segregator, single out, somebody


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