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Desegregate

Definition: Desegregate

Desegregate

Verb

1. Open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Desegregate

Synonyms: integrate (v), mix (v). (additional references)
Antonym: segregate (v). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Desegregate

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Vote Socialist Workers : billions for jobs, not war, stop FBI and CIA crimes, desegregate the schools, defend abortion rights.Credit: Library of Congress.

Desegregate the schools! Vote Socialist Workers : Peter Camejo for president, Willie Mae Reid for vice-president.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Desegregate

"Desegregate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Desegregate" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Desegregate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  desegregate

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Desegregate

Language Translations for "desegregate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

desegregovat. (various references)

   

German

  

die Rassentrennung aufheben (to desegregate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esegregateday

   

Russian 

  

объединять (aggregate, band, collate, combine, combining, consolidate, merged, unify, unionize, unite, unites, whip in), интегрировать (integrate), десегрегировать. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ขจั"การแบ่งแยกผิวหรือเผ่าพันธุ์. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ırk ayırımına son vermek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Desegregate

Derivations

Words beginning with "desegregate": desegregated, desegregates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Desegregate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desegragate, desegreate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Desegregate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "desegregate" (pronounced dēse"grugā't)
8-s e" g r u g ā' tsegregate.
6-g r u g ā' tcongregate.
5-r u g ā' tabrogate, corrugate, interrogate, irrigate.
4-u g ā' tcastigate, delegate, fumigate, instigate, investigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, propagate, relegate, subjugate.
3-g ā' tarrogate, floodgate, litigate, profligate, tailgate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Desegregate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-g-g-r-s-t"

-1 letter: gadgeteers, segregated.

-2 letters: gadgeteer, raggedest, seedeater, segregate, staggered.

-3 letters: degrease, deterges, eagerest, etageres, reseated, restaged, retagged, saggered, steerage.

-4 letters: daggers, dearest, degrees, derates, deterge, dragees, egested, ergates, etagere, gadgets, gagster, gargets, greased, greeted, raggees, redates, reested, reggaes, restage, sedater, stagged, stagger, steered, taggers.

-5 letters: aggers, agreed, agrees, aretes, dagger, daters, degage, degree, derate, derats, desert.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-g-g-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: desegregated, desegregates, resegregated.

 

+4 letters: exaggeratedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Desegregate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 73 65 67 72 65 67 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    ...    .    --.    .-.    .    --.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01110011 01100101 01100111 01110010 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#115 &#101 &#103 &#114 &#101 &#103 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0073 0065 0067 0072 0065 0067 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871857173847173678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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