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English Dictionary: segregate	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for segregate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
segregate n someone who is or has been segregated v separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" Antonym(s): desegregate, integrate, mix 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 segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, a. [L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See {Gregarious}.] 1. Separate; select. 2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.