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verb

Discriminate v. t. (past & past part. discriminated; pres. part. discriminating) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish. "To discriminate the goats from the sheep."

Discriminate v. i.

To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.

(a)

To treat unequally.

(b)

(Railroads) To impose unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.

adjective

Discriminate adj. Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

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Etymology of 'Discriminate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discriminate" Quotes from Famous Books

... to judge a man by his appearance, so that the very men who need the money most have the hardest work to get it. They are apt, especially at the City Bank, to discriminate against the "feller" who looks rocky, in favor of the Rockafeller. Clothes do not make the man! If they did, Hetty Green wouldn't be where she is and Russell Sage would be in the Old Ladies' Home. If Uncle Russell had to travel on his shape, he never would ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... that with any considerable economy of fuel and other running expenses, it is but little faster than the sailing vessel; that to patronize these slow vessels with the mails, the Government would unjustly discriminate against sailing vessels in the transport of freights; that we can not in any sense depend on the vessels of the Navy for the transport of the mails; that individual enterprise can not support fast steamers; and that not even American private ...

— Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post • Thomas Rainey

... infamous. Ideal objects of commiseration are undoubtedly to be met with, though rarely to be found. It requires a being hackneyed in the ways of men, or having at least some knowledge of the town, to be able to discriminate the party ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... this unique and unparalleled interest, that it gives the spectacle of the highest epic genius, struggling out of savagery into complete and free and conscious humanity. It is a mark of the savage intellect not to discriminate abruptly between man and the lower animals. In the tales of the lower peoples, the characters are just as often beasts as men and women. Now, in the earlier and wilder parts of the "Volsunga Saga," otters and dragons play human parts. Signy and his son, and the mother of their enemy, put on ...

— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang

... moves, and GOLDEN DAYS was the pioneer in recognizing that young people have tastes that must be consulted, if it is sought to interest and amuse them. They will absorb knowledge, as a sponge does water; but they will discriminate, as a sponge does not. A scientific article can be as interesting as a novel, and yet be as full of instruction as an egg is of meat; stories may point a moral unerringly and yet thrill with romantic adventure, like Robinson Crusoe; natural ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various

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