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Definitions of segregate
  1. verb
    divide from the main body or mass and collect
    "Many towns segregated into new counties" "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
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  2. verb
    separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
    "This neighborhood is segregated" "We don't segregate in this county"
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  3. verb
    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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  4. noun
    someone who is or has been segregated
Definition that contains segregate
  • sort an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
  • clark United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)
  • ghetto any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
  • meredith United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
  • sorting an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
  • integrated not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups
  • segregate someone who is or has been segregated
  • kenneth bancroft clark United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)
  • kenneth clark United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)
  • james howard meredith United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
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