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Definitions: Segregation |
SegregationNoun1. (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes. 2. A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups. 3. The act of segregating or sequestering. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "segregation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Undesired separation of certain fractions of material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A preferential rejection by, or incorporation into, the solid phase of a solution component as it solidifies. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | The separation in meiotic cell division of homologous chromosome pairs and their contained allelomorphic gene pairs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Deviation from average composition in a phase, arising from diffusion or from the conditions prevailing during solidification etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The tendency for the small lumps of coal to separate out from the fine coal between the bunkers and the stoker hoppers. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A secondary feature formed as a result of chemical rearrangement of minor constituents within a sediment after its deposition; e.g., a nodule of iron sulfide, a concretion of calcium carbonate, or a geode b. Partial reseparation of a previously mixed batch of material into its constituents, as a result of differences in particle size or density. Segregation can occur in storage bins, on conveyors, and in feeders duringdry or semidry processing e.g., a nodule of iron sulfide, a concretion of calcium carbonate, or a geode. (references) |
Public Administration | Disciplinary punishment(1); at request of prisoner or for his safety(2). Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Politics
Racial segregation is the segregation of humans according to race.
Biology
The separation of homologous chromosomes during meiosis.Geography
The separation of groups from a large population, especially into different areas. See also Racial segregation.Traffic
The separation of high-traffic routes from areas where pedestrians have priority.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Segregation."
Synonym: SegregationSynonym: sequestration (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: integration (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disjunction | Separation; parting; Verb: circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture, |
Exclusion | Separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion; cofferdam. |
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 | NAACP youth and student members marching with signs protesting Texas segregation laws, Houston, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | People marching with signs to protest segregation in education at the college and secondary levels] / J.H. Lawson, Houston, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | People, some with picket signs, gather outside Lincoln School in Englewood, N.J. protesting the city's failure to end racial segregation.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tule Lake segregation center, Newell, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | African-Americans kneel on sidewalk outside City Hall in Birmingham, Alabama protesting racial segregation.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Thurgood Marshall (r) and Spottswood W. Robinson III, half-length portrait, facing each other; in Washington, D.C. to ask the Supreme Court to end school segregation.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Several rows of civil rights activists, many holding hands, march down Chicago's Balboa Drive to protest school segregation.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Atlanta policeman drags African American high school student Taylor Washington to paddy wagon during demonstration against restaurant segregation, Atlanta, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | We must look instead to the effect of segregation itself on public education. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1929) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Segregation studies should be done to determine likely patterns of transmission and to obtain estimates of genetic parameters necessary for the successful analysis of linkage studies. (references) | |
Business | It seems that traceability, segregation and identity preservation will become preconditions for accessing the European and especially the German market with foodstuffs. (references) | |
The impact of segregation of clinical waste was highlighted in the report that showed that hospitals that had implemented a segregation program could reduce clinical waste production by two thirds when compared with other hospitals. (references) | ||
Children | Bulgaria | Some complained that the effective segregation of disabled children into special schools has lowered the quality of their education. (references) |
Sierra Leone | However, all ethnic groups use Krio as a second language, little ethnic segregation is apparent in urban areas, and interethnic marriage is common. (references) | |
Hungary | In 1999 the Minister of Education and the parliamentary Ombudsman for Minority Rights announced at a press conference that there is segregation in the country's educational system. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Australia | The Members of Parliament (M.P.s) recommended a 14-week limit on detention terms, an ombudsman for detainees, and segregation of troublesome asylum seekers. (references) |
Discrimination | Madagascar | The Constitution prohibits all forms of discrimination and outlaws groups that advocate ethnic or religious segregation. (references) |
Economic History | South Africa | Although the laws governing this segregation have been abolished, the long and arduous process of restructuring the country's educational system is just beginning. (references) |
Human Rights | Sierra Leone | There was no segregation of prisoners. (references) |
Argentina | Under national regulations, pretrial prisoners may not be held together with convicted prisoners; however, reliable reports indicate that this segregation of prisoners often is not respected in practice. (references) | |
Minorities | India | In addition they face segregation in housing, in land ownership, on roads, and on buses. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Gender segregation is common in social settings. (references) |
Political Rights | Kuwait | Liberal Assembly members complained that Islamists were using the threat of formal questioning to change government policy on specific issues, such as regulation of Islamic charities and gender segregation. (references) |
Women | Uruguay | The work force exhibits segregation by gender. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nigeria | The single trade union structure and segregation of junior from senior staff were intended to dilute the bargaining strength of workers. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Dionnes of the world failing to report that Strom was a Democrat when he stood for segregation. |
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| "Segregation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Segregation" is used about 416 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 416 | 13,620 |
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Expressions using "segregation": Chromosome Segregation ♦ coal segregation ♦ de facto segregation ♦ de jure segregation ♦ interdentritic segregation ♦ law of segregation ♦ micro segregation ♦ microscopic segregation ♦ racial segregation ♦ sex segregation ♦ transgressive segregation. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "segregation": sex-segregation. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "segregation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veçim (detachment, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divorce, insularity, insulation, isolation, retirement, seclusion, separation, withdrawal), ndarje (allotment, bay, break, chamber, cleavage, compartment, detachment, differentiation, disjunction, dismemberment, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, fission, fissure, fragmentation, leave taking, outgiving, parceling, parcelling, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segmentation, separation, severance, share out, sorting, spacing, split, splitting), likuidim (clearing, liquidation), izolim (alienation, confinement, insularity, isolation, ostracism, seclusion, sequester, sequestration). (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, segregate, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), تمييز عنصري (apartheid, color bar, colour bar, racialism, racism), تمييز (difference, differentiation, discernment, discrimination, recognition), عزل (cut off, depose, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, gaol, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, recall, relegate, seclude, segregate, sequester, taboo), التمييز العنصري, العزل العرقي, إنعزال (detachment, insulation, isolation, secession, solitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разделяне (disjunction, disseverance, dissociation, divarication, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, scission, section, segmentation, severance), изолация (detachment, insulation, isolation, jacket, lagging, seclusion, separation), делене (cleavage, division, segmentation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 离析. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | segregace, oddìlení (clinic, compartment, department, desk, detachment, disjunction, division, section, separation, unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spaltning (cleavage, cleaving, decomposition, dissociation, division, fission, nuclear fission, rifting, scission, splitting), sejring (coal segregation), sejgring, segregering, segregation, udsondring (coal segregation, excretion), udskillelse (coal segregation, decontamination, delivery, discharge, elimination, excretion, precipitation, secretion), isolering,karantaene (internment, prevention, prophylaxis, protection), fraspaltning, afblanding (demixing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | segregatie (apartheid), verdeling (allocation, allotment, apportionment, distribution, division, fractionation, hanging, partition, sectorial analysis, spread), uitscheiding (excrement, excretion, precipitation), ontmenging (coal segregation, demixing), kristalvorming, isolering (insulation, internment, isolation, prevention, prophylaxis, protection), afzondering (cellular confinement, isolation, separation, solitary confinement), afzetting (accretion, alluviation, amputation, cordon, cordoning off operation, deposit, Deposition, falling out of a solid within a liquid because of gravity, filling up with alluvium, impeachment, orebody, sediment, sedimentation, settling, silting, silting up), afsplitsing (divestiture, divided out application, divisional application), afscheiding (breakaway, classification, coal segregation, demarcation, excretion, grading, marking out, partition, secession, secretion, separation, sorting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تفکیک (Denotation, Detachment, Segregate, Severance), تبعیض نژادی (Racism), جداءی (Breakaway, Divorce, Gulf, Rupture, Seclusion, Sequester, Severance), افتراق . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | erottelu (classification, discrimination, grading, resolution, separation, sorting, splitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | séparation (coal segregation, secession, segregating, separation, separator), ségrégation (coal segregation), isolement (seclusion, sensory deprivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trennung (coal segregation, detachment, disconnectedness, disconnection, disestablishment, distinction, diverging, divestiture, division, divorce, fork, isolation, parting, partition, secession, segregating, selectivity, separating, separation, severance), Segregation (ghetto), Absonderung (abstraction, coal segregation, dissociation, emission, excretion, internment, isolation, prevention, prophylaxis, protection, reject, seclusion, secretion, separation, severance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιδρυματισμός (internment, prevention, prophylaxis, protection), προστασία (aegis, auspice, auspices, conservation, defence, internment, patronage, prevention, prophylaxis, protection, safeguard, shield, shielding, sponsorship), προφύλαξη (caution, internment, precaution, prevention, prophylaxis, protection), χωρισμόσ (disintegration, disseverance, parting, separation), ανάμιξη κραματούχων υλικών, απόμιξη, απομόνωση (clutch, insulation, internment, isolation, prevention, prophylaxis, protection, quarantine, reclusion, seclusion), αποχωρισμός (abstraction, detachment, seclusion, separation), διαχωρισμός (breakout, bribe, burn-through, classification, deflocculation, delamination, demixing, disjunction, dispersion, dissection, fission, grading, halving, migration, oil and fat splitting, partition, partitioning, precipitation, resolution, segregating, separation, sorting, splitting), διαχωρίζομαι (separate, split up, to segregate), διαφορισμός, διαλογή άνθρακα (coal segregation), διαλογή (classification, cleaning, coal segregation, grading, inspection, screening, selection, separation, sorting, triage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "תבו""ות (isolation, retirement, seclusion, solitude), "פר"" (demarcation, division, parting, partition, resolution, separation, severance), "ב"לות (isolation, separation), "ב"ל" (differentiation, distinction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elkülönítés (detachment, disassociation, disconnection, dissociation, isolation, partition, quarantine, seclusion, separation, sequester, spacing), feldúsulás (enrichment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengkotak-kotakan (separation, sorting), pemisahan (abstraction, separation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | segregazione (coal segregation, demixing, isolation, segregating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "離 (isolation), 分離 (detachment, isolation, separation), 分立 (independence, separation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぶ"りつ (independence, separation), ぶ"り (context, crisis, detachment, isolation, literature and science, reasoning, separation), かくり (isolation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 분리 (Detachment, disjunction, Segregating, Separating, separative). (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, segregate, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egregationsay separação (ablation, abruption, abstraction, air gap, apartness, avulsion, breach, breakdown, chasm, clearance, coal segregation, cubicle division, demixing, detachment, disconsider, disentangle, disjunctive, dissidence, dissolution, disunite, division, divorce, divot, fission, gap, oil and fat splitting, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segregating, separation, separator, severance, solution). (various references) separare (cleavage, detachment, disjunction, dissociation, division, isolation, parting, partition, separation, severance), segregare, segregaţie, despãrţire (disjunction, division, divorce, parting, partition, seclusion, separation). (various references) изоляция (excommunication, insulation, isolation, lagging, seal, seclusion). (various references) segregacija, odvajanje (detachment, dissociation, secession, segmentation, segregate, separation, sequester), izdvajanje (extrication, seclusion). (various references) segregación (coal segregation, demixing, divestiture, internment, prevention, prophylaxis, protection). (various references) segregation (demixing). (various references) การแบ่งแยกเชื้อชาติ ศาสนา หรือวั'นธรรม. (various references) ayrım (apartheid, color bar, difference, distinction, margin, part), ayrılma (breakaway, breakup, check out, cleavage, decampment, defection, departure, deviation, disconnection, disconnexion, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divergence, divergency, divorce, excursion, leave taking, leaving, parting, scission, secession, secessional, separation, sequestration, severance, split, split up, sunder, sunderance, turn off), ayırma (abstraction, appropriation, assortment, combout, cull, detachment, dissociation, distinction, division, estrangement, fractionation, insularity, isolation, partition, reduction, resolution, screening, segregative, seperation, sequestration, severance, sunder, sunderance, throw out, turn off), ırkçılık (apartheid, ethnocentrism, race discrimination, racial discrimination, racialism, racism), ırk ayrımı (apartheid, color bar, color line, colour bar, colour line, race discrimination, racial discrimination). (various references) сегрегація, розшаровування (lamination). (various references) sự tách riêng, sự phân ly (decomposition, disassociation, dissociation, separation), sự chia tách. (various references) didoliad (separation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "segregation": segregationist, segregationists, segregations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "segregation": antidesegregation, antisegregation, desegregation, nonsegregation, resegregation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "segregation": desegregations, nonsegregations, resegregations, ultrasegregationist, ultrasegregationists. (additional references) | |
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"Segregation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deaggregation, seggreation, seggregation, segragation, segregational, segretation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "segregation" (pronounced se'grugā"shun) |
| 10 | s e' g r u g ā" sh u n | desegregation. |
| 8 | -g r u g ā" sh u n | congregation. |
| 7 | -r u g ā" sh u n | abrogation, interrogation, irrigation. |
| 6 | -u g ā" sh u n | allegation, conjugation, delegation, fumigation, investigation, litigation, navigation, negation, obligation, propagation. |
| 5 | -g ā" sh u n | elongation, instigation, ligation, mitigation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elevation, elimination, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, installation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, limitation, liquidation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, toleration, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: seignorage. | |
-2 letters: agentries, gratinees, greetings, orangiest, reseating, restaging, segregant, stereoing, stingaree, toggeries. | |
-3 letters: agreeing, anergies, angriest, arenites, arsenite, astringe, earstone, egesting, egestion, engagers, engorges, eringoes, estragon, estrange, estrogen, gangster, ganister, gantries, garoting, gasogene, gearings, genitors, gentries, gesneria, gigatons, granites, grantees, gratinee, gratings, greasing, greatens, greeting, ingrates, integers, interage, naggiest, negaters, negators, notaries, oneriest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: segregations. | |
+2 letters: desegregation, exaggerations, resegregation, theatergoings. | |
+3 letters: desegregations, nonsegregation, reaggregations, resegregations, segregationist, stereographing. | |
+4 letters: antisegregation, nonsegregations, segregationists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 67 72 65 67 61 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . --. .-. . --. .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100111 01110010 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e g r e g a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0067 0072 0065 0067 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371738471736786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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