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Discriminate   /dɪskrˈɪmənˌeɪt/   Listen
Discriminate

verb
(past & past part. discriminated; pres. part. discriminating)
1.
Recognize or perceive the difference.  Synonym: know apart.
2.
Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.  Synonyms: separate, single out.
3.
Distinguish.
adjective
1.
Marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions.  "Discriminate people"






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"Discriminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... discriminate between the occasions, both in the Nursery School and in the transition and junior classes, when a child should be free to learn by experience and when he should be controlled from without. We shall probably find occasions which partake of ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith

... mental qualities. Moreover, such mere inclinations and interests cannot determine the true psychological fitness for a vocation. To choose a crude illustration, a boy may think with passion of the vocation of a sailor, and yet may be entirely unfit for it, because his mind lacks the ability to discriminate red and green. He himself may never have discovered that he is color-blind, but when he is ready to turn to the sailor's calling, the examination of his color-sensitiveness which is demanded may have shown the disturbing mental deficiency. Similar ...
— Psychology and Industrial Efficiency • Hugo Muensterberg

... of that partial legislation which would discriminate against the property of one class of citizens, to destroy its value, by proposing the confiscation of its increase, or excluding it from the State,—this is oppression. It may be submitted to, but it is unjust, partial legislation, and an arbitrary act of tyranny, and if persisted ...
— The Right of American Slavery • True Worthy Hoit

... only way," May explained. "I can't draw distinctions. Mrs. Baxter, now, says 'Our Cathedral' but 'My drawing-room.' Amy Benyon says 'Our relations,' when she means hers and 'Dick's relations' when she means his. I've quite given up the attempt to discriminate; a thorough-going identification of husband and wife is the only thing. The We matrimonial must be as universal ...
— Quisante • Anthony Hope

... at present at issue upon this point. We are in the great crisis of this contention, and the part which men take, one way or other, will serve to discriminate their characters and their principles. Until the matter is decided, the country will remain in its present confusion. For while a system of Administration is attempted, entirely repugnant to the genius of the people, and not conformable to the plan of their Government, everything must necessarily ...
— Thoughts on the Present Discontents - and Speeches • Edmund Burke


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