Definitions for segregate

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segregate seg·re·gate

Spelling: [verb seg-ri-geyt; noun seg-ri-git, -geyt]

IPA: /verb ˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪt; noun ˈsɛg rɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt/

Segregate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in segregate (aeeeggrst).

Definitions for segregate

noun

1. a segregated thing, person, or group.

verb (used with object)

1. to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate:
2. to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.

verb (used without object)

1. to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
2. to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
3. Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.

Origin of segregate

1400-50 in sense “segregated”; 1535-45 as transitive v.; late Middle English segregat Latin sēgregātus (past participle of sēgregāre to part from the flock), equivalent to sē- Examples for segregate

They did not segregate into a parlor class and a kitchen class.

Then again, New York grew too rapidly to segregate any race.

They will do much more than segregate parks and bakeries, which they are already doing.

Short of use made of them, they tend to segregate into a peculiar world of their own.

In the society of weeds there is this tendency to segregate, quite as in human society.

The ommatidium is from the first segregate and consists of few cells.

We cannot, formally, segregate Muslim passengers from the rest in airport security.

We could not segregate the sick, nor could we care for them.

He had failed to segregate the men from the women in the provincial prison.

You segregate all of your other second-class citizens and pretend you have Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, but you do not.