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Segregate   /sˈɛgrəgˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Segregate  v. t.  (past & past part. segregated; pres. part. segregating)  To separate from others; to set apart. "They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations."


Segregate  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.


adjective
Segregate  adj.  
1.
Separate; select.
2.
(Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Segregate" Quotes from Famous Books



... should be not over 0.02 sulphur and 0.025 phosphorus. The serious detrimental effect of small quantities of sulphur and phosphorus is due to their not being uniformly distributed, owing to their tendency to segregate. ...
— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin
... live out of your own age and to work for other times. It is equally incumbent on us to be good members of our own age as of our own state or country. If it is conceived to be unseemly and even unlawful for a man to segregate himself from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, it would be inconsistent not to see that it is equally his duty to grant a proper share of influence to the voice of his own epoch, to its taste and its requirements, in the operations ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... "'Segregate your mind from battles,' says I. 'I've been making inquiries. You're to be shot six months from date for assault and battery. I'm expecting to receive fifty years at hard labor for vagrancy. All they furnish you while you're a prisoner ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... nothing to be done. We could not segregate the sick, nor could we care for them. We were packed like sardines. There was nothing to do but rot or die—that is, there was nothing to do after the night that followed the first death. On that night, the mate, ...
— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London
... spent the afternoon reading a voluminous, neat, smoothly written, extremely convincing batch of bold-faced lies. Lies about David Ingersoll. Somewhere, at the bottom of those lies was a shred or two of truth, a shred hard to analyze, impossible to segregate from the garbage surrounding it. But somebody had written the lies. That meant that somebody knew ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse


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