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Definition: Segregate |
SegregateVerb1. Separate by race or religion; "This neighborhood is segregated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "segregate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Pac. To separate the undivided joint ownership of a mining claim into smaller individually segregated claims. b. In geology, to separate from the general mass, and collect together or become concentrated at a particular place or in a certain region, such as in the process of crystallization or solidification.See also:segregated vein. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: desegregate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate). |
Exclusion | Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin). |
Irrelation | Remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Segregate |
| English words defined with "segregate": Segregating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "segregate": bulk minin ♦ CAR DISTRIBUTOR, car supplier, chief clerk, yard office, combing-machine tender ♦ DIAMOND SIZER AND SORTER, DRAW-FRAME TENDER ♦ Endoplasmic Reticulum, Rough ♦ grid-pasting-machine operator ♦ HEAD-GAUGE-UNIT OPERATOR ♦ LINE TENDER, FLAKEBOARD, LIVESTOCK-YARD ATTENDANT ♦ Nondisjunction, Genetic ♦ PASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ SIEVE-GRADER TENDER, SPOTTER I ♦ to sort. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Food processors and grain companies experience rising pressure to segregate GM from non-GM products. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bulgaria | The Government has abolished the construction and transportation battalions, to which ethnic and religious minorities previously were assigned in order to segregate them from the regular military forces. (references) |
Economic History | Norway | Unless U.S. suppliers are willing to segregate their GMO soybeans, Denofa will most likely continue to import soybeans from non-U.S. suppliers. (references) |
Human Rights | Bolivia | The changes also permitted the Government to segregate male and female prisoners. (references) |
Women | Kuwait | Despite a legal requirement to segregate Kuwait University by gender by July 31, classrooms remained largely coeducational. (references) |
Worker Rights | Saudi Arabia | The ILO has stated that the Government has not formulated legislation implementing the ILO Convention 100 on Equal Remuneration and that regulations that segregate work places by sex, or limit vocational programs for women, violate ILO Convention 111 on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Segregate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Segregate" is used about 35 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "segregate": inverse segregate band ♦ negative segregate band. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "segregate": co-segregate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
segregate | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "segregate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veçoj (abstract, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, individualize, insulate, isolate, keep separate, partition, pick out, seclude, separate), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), likuidoj (liquidate, rub out, wind up), izoloj (insulate, isolate, lag, ostracize, seclude, sequester), i veçuar (dangling, detached, individual, isolated, lonely, out of the way, retired, secluded, separate, several, single), i ndarë (divided, parted, separate, split). (various references) | |
Arabic | فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ميز (characterize, confer distinction upon, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, favor, favour, grant a special privilege, honor, identify, know, label, make a distinction, mark, notice, observe, perceive, prefer, privilege, realize, recognize, separate, set above others, set apart, set aside, single, single out, stamp), معزول (isolated, outlying, removed, secluded, separated, set apart, set aside, shut off, straggler), عزل (cut off, depose, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, gaol, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, recall, relegate, seclude, segregation, sequester, taboo). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | различен индивид, разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), изолиран индивид, изолирам се, изолирам (enclose, enisle, insulate, island, isolate, seal, seal off, seclude, sequester, sequestrate, shut in, shut off). (various references) | |
Chinese | 分离 (Discrete, Disjunctive, segregated, Segregating, separated, Separating, separation). (various references) | |
Czech | segregovat podle rasy, oddìlit (detach, disjunct, dispart, fractionate, mark off, part, partition, scorify, separate, sequester, sever, split off). (various references) | |
Danish | spaltes (to segregate), sejgringsomraade (segregate pocket, segregation pocket), sejgringsnetvaerkets traade udgoer svaghedszoner,der er rige paa sulfidindeslutninger (rich in sulphide inclusions, the threads of segregate constitute a zone of weakness), sejgringsnetvaerk dannes under stoerkningenenten gradvist paa de steder,hvor soejlekrystallerne stoeder sammen i hjoernerne af det stoebte emne eller ved revnedannelse (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts ), or by cracking, these threads of segregate form during solidification), sejgringslinie (ghost line, line of segregation, segregate band, segregation line), sejgringsbaand (ghost line, line of segregation, segregate band, segregation line), segregere (to segregate), undersoegelser har vist, at graden af sejgring hos de metalliske legeringsstoffer oeges i takt med deres affinitet til kulstof (experiments have shown that metallic addition elements segregate more, when their affinity for carbon is greater), ofte finder man netvaerk af sejgret metal,hvis laengde er af stoerrelsesordenen en centimeter,og som man kalder netsejgring (sometimes threads of segregated metal are found about one centimetre in length, to which the name threads of segregate may be given), i tvaersnit ser ghost-lines omtrent runde ud med en udpraeget stigning i sejgring paa den side,der vender vaek fra blokkens akse (on a transverse section the ghost appears approximately round, with a very marked crescent of segregate on the side away from the axis of the ingot), baand af omvendt sejgring (inverse segregate band, negative segregate band). (various references) | |
Dutch | splitsen (divide, separate, share), vaak vindt men draden van uitgescheiden metaal met een lengte van circa 1 centimeter die uitscheidingsnetwerk worden genoemd (sometimes threads of segregated metal are found about one centimetre in length, to which the name threads of segregate may be given), onderzoekingen hebben aangetoond dat metallische legeringselementen beter uitscheiden naarmate hun affiniteit voor koolstof groter is (experiments have shown that metallic addition elements segregate more, when their affinity for carbon is greater), interdendritische segregatienetwerken zijn het gevolg van hetzij een beschadigd profiel van de gietvorm,hetzij een te hete smelt die grote dendrieten oplevert;het resultaat kan warmbrosheid zijn (interdendritic threads of segregate which are due either to defective design of the mould profile, or to the melt being teemed too hot and therefore giving large dendrites: the result may be hot brittleness), in een dwarsdoorsnede is het aanzicht van de ghost-line ongeveer rond met een zeer uitgesproken halve-maanvormige uitscheiding aan de zijde die het verst van de as van het gietblok is verwijderd (on a transverse section the ghost appears approximately round, with a very marked crescent of segregate on the side away from the axis of the ingot), deze uitscheidingsnetwerken worden tijdens het stollen gevormd,hetzij progressief op het knooppunt van de stengelkristallen in de hoeken van gegoten produkten,hetzij door scheuren (either progressively at the point of intersection of the columnar grains in the corners of cast products ( corner ghosts ), or by cracking, these threads of segregate form during solidification), de uitscheidingsdraden vormen een bros gebied,dat rijk is aan sulfideinsluitingen (rich in sulphide inclusions, the threads of segregate constitute a zone of weakness), afsplitsen (split off). (various references) | |
Farsi | تفکیک (Denotation, Detachment, Segregation, Severance), تک (Attack, Azygos, Individual, Lone, Odd, One, Particular, Single, Singular, Solitaire, Solo), تبعیض نژادی قاءل شدن , سوا (Apart, Asunder, Separate), جداسازی (Detachment, Severance), جدا (Another, Apart, Asunder, Discrete, Disjoin, Separate, Several). (various references) | |
Finnish | segregoitua (to segregate), jakautua (be divided, divide, fall into). (various references) | |
French | séparer (seclude, separate, set apart), isoler (seclude, separate, sequester), faire séparer (separate). (various references) | |
German | absondern (abstract, detach, divide, emit, excude, insulate, isolate, let off, ooze, pass, seclude, seclusion, secrete, separate, separate out, sequester, sift out, to abstract, to exclude, to excude, to seclude, to secrete, to segregate, to sequester). (various references) | |
Greek | διαχωρίζω (demarcate, disconnect, disembroil, disintegrate, dissever, dissociate, isolate, partition, separate, sever). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"פרי" ול"פלות, ל"ב"יל (distinguish, divide, separate), לבו"" (insulate, isolate, seclude, sequester). (various references) | |
Hungarian | magányos (be lonely, cloistered, desolate, friendless, lone, lonely, lonesome, recluse, remote, secluded, sequestered, solitary), faji alapon különbséget tesz, elkülönít (confine, discriminate, extrapolate, island, isolate, seclude, separate, to detach, to disassociate, to dissever, to dissociate, to divide, to extricate, to ghettotize, to quarantine, to seclude, to section out, to separate, to sequester, to set apart, to sift). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengasingkan (alienate, exile, intern, isolate). (various references) | |
Italian | segregarsi (to segregate), segregare (isolate). (various references) | |
Korean | 분리된 것. (various references) | |
Manx | scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egregatesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | separar-se (divorce, separate, sunder), separar (branch, break, buddle, calve, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnect, discriminate, disembody, disengage, disestablish, disintegrate, disjoin, dispart, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, divvy, insulate, island, isolate, keep apart, outbreak, part, seclude, separate, sever, sort, sort out, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink, wean), segregar-se, pôr parte (make away, ostracize, outgrow, select, set apart, set aside, single), isolar (enisle, island, seclude, sequester), apartar-se (separate), apartar (divide, part, seclude, select, separate, single, sort, wean). (various references) | |
Romanian | simplu (agrestic, artless, austere, average, bald, bare, common, easy, elementary, grave, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, humbly, mere, modest, natural, neat, patriarchal, plain, plainly, primitive, pure, quiet, ready, russet, simple, simple minded, simply, single, singular, soft-headed, straight, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, undisguised, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished), separat (apart, asunder, detached, discrete, distinct, divided, dividual, independently, isolated, separated, separately, severally, single), separa (chop off, cleave, cut out, detach, disconnect, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissociate, disunite, divide, isolate, partition, seclude, separate, sever, sunder), segrega, se izola, se grupa separat, se despãrţi (dispart, dissever, disunite, divorce, part, part company, sever), izolat (apart, detached, isolated, lonely, lonesome, out of the way, private, remote, removed, retired, scattered, secluded, seclusive, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), izola (cut off, divide, enisle, insulate, isolate, maroon, seal, seclude, sequester), despãrţit (asunder, divided), despãrţi (abstract, bar, cleave, detach, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, partition, scatter, select, separate, sever, unyoke). (various references) | |
Russian | отделять (compartmentalize, cut loose, detach, divide, intercept, partition off, separate, set apart, untwine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | segregisan, odvojiti (break off, detach, disconnect, divide, ease off, mark out, separate, set off, sever, sort, spare, uncouple), odvojen (detached, discrete, divided, forked, separate, separated, sequestered), odvajanje (detachment, dissociation, secession, segmentation, segregation, separation, sequester), izdvojiti (abstract, extricate, mark off, single out), izdvojen (secluded, separate, separated). (various references) | |
Spanish | separar (break off, break up, come between, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, divide, get away, hive off, keep away, move away, open, pull apart, separate, sever, take away), segregar (cutout, divide, separate). (various references) | |
Swedish | avskilja (abstract, detach, dissever, partition off, separate, sequester). (various references) | |
Thai | แยกออกจากกลุ่ม. (various references) | |
Turkish | tecrit etmek (insulate, isolate, put in quarantine, quarantine, sequester, shut off, wall), ayrım yapmak (differentiate, discriminate between, distinguish), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), ayrılmış (booked, disjointed, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, isolated, reserved, set apart, set aside, split), ayrı tutmak (discriminate, individualize, insulate, isolate, make a distinction, sequester, set apart, set off, take aside), ayrı (aloof, another, apart, aside, detachedly, discontinuous, discrete, dissimilar, distanced, distinct, divergent, divided, especial, hetero-, isolated, separate, unconnected), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), ırkçılık yapmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відокремлюватися (dissever, dissociate, disunite, secede, separate, single), відокремлювати (abstract, dissever, distinguish, isolate, mark off, seclude, separate, sever, single), відокремлення (amputation, detachment, disseverance, separation, severance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | riêng biệt (characteristic, discrete, individual, individually, severally, special, specially, specifically). (various references) | |
Welsh | didoli (separate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "segregate": segregated, segregates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "segregate": desegregate, resegregate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "segregate": desegregated, desegregates, nonsegregated, resegregated, resegregates, unsegregated. (additional references) | |
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"Segregate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seggregate, segragate, segregants, segregative, segregrate, segrigate, seregate, S'great. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "segregate" (pronounced se"grugā't) |
| 8 | s e" g r u g ā' t | desegregate. |
| 6 | -g r u g ā' t | congregate. |
| 5 | -r u g ā' t | abrogate, corrugate, interrogate, irrigate. |
| 4 | -u g ā' t | castigate, delegate, fumigate, instigate, investigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, propagate, relegate, subjugate. |
| 3 | -g ā' t | arrogate, floodgate, litigate, profligate, tailgate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-g-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: eagerest, etageres, steerage. | |
-2 letters: ergates, etagere, gagster, gargets, raggees, reggaes, restage, stagger, taggers. | |
-3 letters: aggers, agrees, aretes, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, egesta, eggars, eggers, egrets, ergate, gagers, garget, gaster, grates, grease, greats, greets, ragees, raggee, reggae, reseat, retags, sagger, seater, seggar, stager, tagger, targes, teaser. | |
-4 letters: agers, agger, agree, arete, aster, eager, eagre, eater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-g-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: eggbeaters, gadgeteers, segregated, segregates. | |
+2 letters: desegregate, exaggerates, resegregate, segregative. | |
+3 letters: desegregated, desegregates, reaggregates, resegregated, resegregates, secretagogue, unsegregated. | |
+4 letters: aggregateness, aggrievements, desegregating, desegregation, geostrategies, nonsegregated, reengagements, resegregating, resegregation, secretagogues. | |
+5 letters: desegregations, resegregations. | |
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