'Segregate' definitions:
Definition of 'segregate'
From: WordNet
noun
Someone who is or has been segregated
verb
Separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" [ant: desegregate, integrate, mix]
verb
Divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
verb
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'
From: GCIDE
- Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Segregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Segregating.] To separate from others; to set apart. [1913 Webster]
- They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Segregate'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Segregate'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'segregate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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