SEGREGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does segregate mean? 

• SEGREGATE (noun)
  The noun SEGREGATE has 1 sense:

1. someone who is or has been segregated

  Familiarity information: SEGREGATE used as a noun is very rare.

• SEGREGATE (verb)
  The verb SEGREGATE has 3 senses:

1. separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation

2. divide from the main body or mass and collect

3. separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others

  Familiarity information: SEGREGATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEGREGATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is or has been segregated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("segregate" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

• SEGREGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they segregate    ... he / she / it segregates   
Past simple: segregated   
Past participle: segregated   
-ing form: segregating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

We don't segregate in this county

Hypernyms (to "segregate" is one way to...):

discriminate; separate; single out (treat differently on the basis of sex or race)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

desegregate (open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups)

Derivation:

segregation (a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups)

segregator (someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Divide from the main body or mass and collect

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Experiments show clearly that genes segregate

Hypernyms (to "segregate" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

segregation (the act of segregating or sequestering)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims

Hypernyms (to "segregate" is one way to...):

insulate; isolate (place or set apart)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

segregation (the act of segregating or sequestering)

 Context examples 

This bipotential layer is subsequently segregated into endoderm and mesoderm.

(Endomesoderm, NCI Thesaurus)

Yet neurons grown in two dimensions are unable to replicate the complex structural organization of brain tissue, which consists of segregated regions of grey and white matter.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

One of the central features of mitotic cell division is the formation of the spindle that segregates chromosomes into each daughter cell.

(Mitotic Spindle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The tendency for genes or segments of DNA closely positioned along a chromosome to segregate together at meiosis, and therefore be inherited together.

(Genetic Linkage, NCI Dictionary)

At meiosis I, homologous chromosomes recombine and then segregate to opposite poles, while the sister chromatids segregate from each other at meoisis II.

(Oocyte Meiosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The decisive factor used to help segregate the study subject into a stratum group.

(Defined Stratification Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike humans, mice and other small mammals’ cone cells are segregated in the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

An activity defined at a global library level that identifies pre-treatment factors by which study subjects are segregated to assure balance of these factors before randomization to a study arm or some smaller segment of a study.

(Defined Stratification Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)