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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEG'REGATE, v. t. [L. segrego; se, from, and grex, flock.] To separate from others; to set apart.
SEG'REGATE, a. Select. [Little used.]
Segregate polygamy, (Polygamia segregata, Linne,) a mode of inflorescence, when several florets comprehended within a common calyx, are furnished also with their proper perianths.
Martyn.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is or has been segregated v
1: separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" [ant: desegregate, integrate, mix]
2: divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
3: separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (-gated; -gating) Etymology: Latin segregatus, past participle of segregare, from se- apart + greg-, grex herd — more at secede Date: 1542 transitive verb 1. to separate or set apart from others or from the general mass ; isolate 2. to cause or force the separation of (as from the rest of society) intransitive verb 1. separate, withdraw 2. to practice or enforce a policy of segregation 3. to undergo genetic segregation • segregative adjective II. noun Date: 1871 one that is in some respect segregated; especially one that differs genetically from the parental line because of genetic segregation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. 1 tr. put apart from the rest; isolate. 2 tr. enforce racial segregation on (persons) or in (a community etc.). 3 intr. separate from a mass and collect together. 4 intr. Biol. (of alleles) separate into dominant and recessive groups. Derivatives: segregable adj. segregative adj. Etymology: L segregare (as SE-, grex gregis flock) 2. adj. 1 Zool. simple or solitary, not compound. 2 archaic set apart, separate. Etymology: L segregatus past part. (as SEGREGATE(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Segregate Seg"re*gate, a. [L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See Gregarious.] 1. Separate; select. 2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Segregate Seg"re*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Segregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Segregating.] To separate from others; to set apart. They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations. --I. Taylor.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Segregate Seg"re*gate, 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(segregates, segregating, segregated) To segregate two groups of people or things means to keep them physically apart from each other. Police segregated the two rival camps of protesters... They segregate you from the rest of the community. VERB: V n, V n prep

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Separate, select. II. v. a. Separate, dissociate, part, insulate, isolate, set apart.

Moby Thesaurus

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