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UK
/sˈɛɡɹɪɡˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/ ]
VERB
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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 -
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
Experiments show clearly that genes segregate
Many towns segregated into new counties
NOUN
- someone who is or has been segregated
How To Use segregate In A Sentence
- Plans for a non-segregated cemetery in Enniskillen faced criticism.
- The school system itself is not totally desegregated.
- This school is completely desegregated
- I see now that certain women are being segregated from the others. SEA MUSIC
- Sutton worked with grasshopper chromosomes, and it was in this paper that he showed that chromosomes occur in distinct pairs, which segregate at meiosis.
- Segregated public bathrooms threaten people's safety, job security and access to education.
- The bachelors and male coquets of the Tahitians and French, with a sprinkling of all the foreigners in Papeete, the officers and crews of the war-ship Zélée and sailing vessels, smoked and endeavored to segregate vahines who appealed to them. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
- Yet the historical part of Edinburgh, the part most frequented by visitors, is a slum intersected by ancient houses that have been segregated and turned into museums and training-colleges.
- On the first day of trading, GE-free soybeans outsold unsegregated soybeans three to one.
- Up to that point, traditional aquariums offered views of segregated species through small fish tank windows.
