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 Definitions of segregate  [əˈgoʊ vi ə]  

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Definition of 'segregate' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) segregate
to separate or set apart from others; isolate.

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

3. (v.i.) segregate
to become segregated.

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

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

6. (n.) segregate
a segregated thing, person, or group.

Etymology:  (1535–45; < L sēgregātus, ptp. of sēgregāre to separate, dissociate =sē-se - +-gregāre, v. der. of grex, s.

Definition of 'segregate' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) segregate
someone who is or has been segregated

2. (verb) segregate
separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
"This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county"

3. (verb) segregate
divide from the main body or mass and collect
"Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"

4. (verb) 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"


Definition of 'segregate' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) segregate
to separate people from each other according to their race, religion, etc.
We cannot continue to segregate people with disabilities.


Definition of 'segregate' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) segregate
separate; select

2. (adj) segregate
separated from others of the same kind

3. (verb) segregate
to separate from others; to set apart

4. (verb) segregate
to separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification


Translation of 'segregate' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

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

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: gesegregeer Arabic flag Arabic: يَعْزِل، يَفْصِل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: изолирам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: segregar Czech flag Czech: oddělit German flag German: trennen
Danish flag Danish: adskille Greek flag Greek: (δια)χωρίζω, απομονώνω Spanish flag Spanish: segregar
Estonian flag Estonian: eraldama Farsi flag Farsi: جدا كردن Finnish flag Finnish: erotella
French flag French: séparer Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְהַפרִיד Hindi flag Hindi: अलग करना, पृथक करना
Croatian flag Croatian: odijeliti, odvojiti Hungarian flag Hungarian: különválaszt Indonesian flag Indonesian: memisahkan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: aðskilja Italian flag Italian: separare Japanese flag Japanese: 隔離する
Korean flag Korean: 분리하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: atskirti Latvian flag Latvian: atdalīt; nošķirt
Malay flag Malay: mengasingkan Dutch flag Dutch: scheiden Norwegian flag Norwegian: skille ut; holde atskilt;
Polish flag Polish: rozdzielać Persian flag Persian: جدا كردن Pashto flag Pashto: بيلول، جلاكول، ګوښي كول:
Portuguese flag Portuguese: segregar Romanian flag Romanian: a separa Russian flag Russian: отделять, изолировать
Slovak flag Slovak: oddeliť (sa), izolovať (s Slovenian flag Slovenian: oddeljen Serbian flag Serbian: razdvojiti
Swedish flag Swedish: segregera,åtskilja Thai flag Thai: แยกคนหรือ กลุ่มคนออกจากกั Turkish flag Turkish: ayırmak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 分隔,隔離 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: відокремлювати; ізолювати Urdu flag Urdu: علاحدہ کرنا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cách li Chinese flag Chinese: 分出,隔离

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