Crossword clues for segregate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, a. [L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See Gregarious.]
Separate; select.
(Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.
Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Segregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Segregating.] To separate from others; to set apart.
They are still segregated, Christians from Christians,
under odious designations.
--I. Taylor.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Latin segregatus, past participle of segregare "set apart, lay aside; isolate; divide," literally "separate from the flock," from *se gregare, from se "apart from" (see secret (n.)) + grege, ablative of grex "herd, flock" (see gregarious). Originally often with reference to the religious notion of separating the flock of the godly from sinners. In modern social context, "to force or enforce racial separation and exclusion," 1908. Related: Segregated; segregating.
Wiktionary
1 separate; select. 2 (context botany English) Separated from others of the same kind. v
To separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.
WordNet
v. separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" [ant: desegregate]
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 degregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"
Wikipedia
In taxonomy, a segregate, or a segregate taxon is created when a taxon is split off from another taxon. This other taxon will be better known, usually bigger, and will continue to exist, even after the segregate taxon has been split off. A segregate will be either new or ephemeral: there is a tendency for taxonomists to disagree on segregates, and later workers often reunite a segregate with the 'mother' taxon.
If a segregate is generally accepted as a 'good' taxon it ceases to be a segregate. Thus, this is a way of indicating change in the taxonomic status. It should not be confused with, for example, the subdivision of a genus into subgenera.
For example, the genus Alsobia is a segregate from the genus Episcia; The genera Filipendula and Aruncus are segregates from the genus Spiraea.Usage examples of "segregate".
I told you before how I refused segregated gigs after the incident in Augusta.
Presumably this would mean that racially segregated schools could not receive voucher funds.
They tackled the whole business of conquest in a new way that only a parthenogenic race would think of - they segregated the sexes.
He had the feeling that he was segregated off in some sort of a wing of the house and that the only way out was through the door the pistolero was standing by.
The vegetables segregated themselves by variety: All the carrots grouped together, and the onions, scallions, beets, sweet potatoes, radishes, turnips, and garlics.
Mothering girls without a decent pair of jeans to their names, she could not have married the Afrikaner doctor in Brits who was in love with her, and mothered children he would take to the segregated Dutch Reformed Church every Sunday.
If germinally anti-social persons are kept humanely segregated during their lifetime, instead of being turned out after a few years of institutional life and allowed to marry, they will leave no descendants, and the number of congenital defectives in the community will be notably diminished.
If the races involved did not cool down swiftly, Japanese and Koepanger rabble-rousers would be held in segregated detention in pearl sheds.
I want you to isolate a sterile line at Langley, routed through a lockbox, sequestered and segregated.
Prentice heard the moan of an ambulance siren, followed by a deeper, lustier roar that he identified as the riot squad cars and he heard and segregated the latter sound as belonging to three of these.
Arms akimbo, shoulders erect, her head raised in a hauteur that suited the disdain her features registered, Mata Safi began a slow tour of the niches where the prisoners were segregated.
Eventually two distinct groups segregated out of all this and from that time on lived separate lives: the nonpoisonous types moved out into the oceans away from the competition, and the carnivores naturally followed them.
Normally, the color-coded crewmen seemed segregated, each with their own kind, but now purple-shirted fuel handlers mingled with red-shirted ordnancemen, shoulder to shoulder with green-shirted hook and catapult men, safety monitors and corpsmen in white, crew captains in brown.
Segregated and trained for the Games from their tenth birthday almost all of the Gamesmen are completely lacking intelligence, it has been drilled and tortured out of them but in a very few there seems to be a kind of awareness seen only as an unwillingness to join the tightly-packed circle.
It is estimated that there are half a million lepers, not segregated, in India alone.