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seg·re·gate

Audio Help [v. seg-ri-geyt; n. seg-ri-git, -geyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -gat·ed, -gat·ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.

2.	to require, often with force, the separation of (a specific racial, religious, or other group) from the general body of society.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.

4.	to practice, require, or enforce segregation, esp. racial segregation.

5.	Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.

–noun

6.	a segregated thing, person, or group.

[Origin: 1400–50 in sense “segregated”; 1535–45 as transit. v.; late ME segregat < L ségregātus (ptp. of ségregāre to part from the flock), equiv. to sé- se- + greg- (s. of grex flock) + -ātus -ate¹; see gregarious

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seg·re·ga·ble

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seg·re·ga·tive, adjective

—Antonyms 1. integrate.

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seg·re·gant Audio Help   (sěg'rĭ-gənt) Pronunciation Key
adj.   Differing from either parent as a result of segregation: a segregant genotype.

n.   A segregant type or organism. Also called segregate.

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seg·re·gate Audio Help   (sěg'rĭ-gāt') Pronunciation Key
v.   seg·re·gat·ed, seg·re·gat·ing, seg·re·gates

v.   tr.

To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. See Synonyms at isolate.
To impose the separation of (a race or class) from the rest of society.

v. intr.

To become separated from a main body or mass.
To practice a policy of racial segregation.
Genetics To undergo genetic segregation.

adj. (-gĭt, -gāt')
Separated; isolated.

n. (-gĭt, -gāt')

One that is or has been segregated.
Genetics See segregant.

[Latin sēgregāre, sēgregāt- : sē-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots.]

seg're·ga'tive adj., seg're·ga'tor n.

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segregate

1542, from L. segregatus, pp. of segregare "separate from the flock, isolate, divide," from *se gregare, from se "apart from" (see secret) + grege, ablative of grex "herd, flock." Originally often with ref. to the religious notion of separating the flock of the godly from sinners. Segregation (1555) is from L.L. segregatio, from L. segregatus; in the specific U.S. racial sense it is attested from 1903; segregationist is from the 1920s.

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segregate
noun
1.	someone who is or has been segregated
verb
1.	separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" [ant: desegregate]
2.	divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
3.	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"

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segregate [ˈsegrigeit] verb

to separate from others; to keep (people, groups etc) apart from each other
Example: At the swimming-pool, the sexes are segregated.

Arabic:	يَعْزِل، يَفْصِل
Chinese (Simplified):	分出，隔离
Chinese (Traditional):	分出，隔離
Czech:	oddělit
Danish:	adskille
Dutch:	scheiden
Estonian:	eraldama
Finnish:	erotella, pitää erillään
French:	séparer
German:	trennen
Greek:	(δια)χωρίζω, απομονώνω
Hungarian:	különválaszt
Icelandic:	aðskilja
Indonesian:	memisahkan
Italian:	separare

Japanese:	隔離する
Korean:	분리하다
Latvian:	atdalīt; nošķirt
Lithuanian:	atskirti
Norwegian:	skille ut; holde atskilt; skille raser fra hverandre, segregere
Polish:	rozdzielać
Portuguese (Brazil):	segregar
Portuguese (Portugal):	segregar
Romanian:	a separa
Russian:	отделять, изолировать
Slovak:	oddeliť (sa), izolovať (sa)
Slovenian:	oddeljen
Spanish:	segregar
Swedish:	segregera, åtskilja
Turkish:	ayırmak

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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.

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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.

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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.

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