segregate

comparative more segregate · superlative most segregate

1. Separate; select.
2. biologySeparated from others of the same kind.
3. geographySeparate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.

present singular third person segregates · participle present segregating · participle past segregated · past segregated

1. transitiveTo separate.

   Throw me in cuffs, no chance of parole / Back in the house, thirty days in the hole / Segregate me from the local population, your love is, uh, incarceration

   2015, “Your Love is Incarceration”, in Clutch

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   One aim of the reorganisation on both routes is to segregate completely the operation of the District and Tilbury Lines between London and Upminster, removing physical connections between the two.

   1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 529

2. transitiveIn particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.

   Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.

3. intransitivegovernmentTo separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.

   […] the National Guard continued to segregate and practice racial discrimination; and black soldiers often found it difficult to obtain decent housing in surrounding communities.

   2021 December 15, Christy McGuire, Taps For A Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN

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   Although the California State Supreme Court ended the official segregation of public schools in 1877, Sacramento continued to segregate well into the 1880s (Sacramento African American Historical and Cultural Society [SAAHCS] 1990:9, 20).

   2016 June 16, Terry L Jones, Jennifer E Perry, Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, Routledge, →ISBN

   Although some lunch counters continued to segregate well into 1965, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter relented on July 25, 1960.26 Unwilling for the slow process of litigation in federal courts to work its way through[…]

   2019 March 28, Peter Charles, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950–1975, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 137

plural segregates

1. An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

   A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.

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   […] to determine whether geographic segregates are discernible.

   1949, Agriculture Handbook, number 401, page 171

   […] the first three segregates are included in a superordinate category at a lower level than that of the segregate ultimately including hawk, horse, and crocodile.

   1987, Stephen A. Tyler, Cognitive Anthropology: Readings, page 49