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Segregate

verb

(past & past part. segregated; pres. part. segregating)

Separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation. "We don't segregate in this county"

Divide from the main body or mass and collect. "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"

Separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others. "Large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"

noun

Someone who is or has been segregated.

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"Segregate" Quotes from Famous Books

... great sensation, and you come upon the following sentence: "Eighteen millions of years would level all in one huge, common, shapeless ruin. Perish the microcosm in the limitless macrocosm! and sink this feeble earthly segregate in the boundless rushing choral aggregation!" This is in Augusta J. Evans Wilson's story "Macaria", and many equally extraordinary examples of "prose run mad" are found in the novels of this once noted writer. ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... himself he understood. Dorothy was no longer of her father's party; he had a suspicion that Mulready's attitude had made it seem advisable to Calendar either to leave the girl behind, in England, or to segregate her from his associates in Antwerp. If not lodged in another quarter of the city, or left behind, she was probably traveling on ahead, to a destination which he could by no means guess. And Mrs. ...

— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance

... child cannot be, as it were, divided into watertight compartments so as to segregate religious influence from its daily training. As Cardinal O'Connell stated, "We Catholics believe that as character is by far the most important product of education, the training of the will, the moulding of the heart, the grounding of the intellect in clear notions of right ...

— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

... first stress of the situation of which the tension in Europe has already become almost intolerable. It is the situation which cannot fail to result from the system of private property and inheritance established throughout the Western world. Opportunities diminish, classes segregate. There arises a caste of wage-earners never to be anything but wage-earners; a caste of property-owners, handing on their property to their descendants; and substantially, after all deductions have been made for exaggeration and simplification, a division ...

— Appearances - Being Notes of Travel • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

... advised and commanded by his sister, Rita, and by Paula and her sisters, Lute and Ernestine, was striving with a dip-net to catch a particularly gorgeous flower of a fish whose size and color and multiplicity of fins and tails had led Paula to decide to segregate him for the special breeding tank in the fountain of her own secret patio. Amid high excitement, and much squealing and laughter, the deed was accomplished, the big fish deposited in a can and carried away by the waiting ...

— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

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