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Segregate   /sˈɛgrəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Segregate

verb
(past & past part. segregated; pres. part. segregating)
1.
Separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation.  "We don't segregate in this county"
2.
Divide from the main body or mass and collect.  "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
3.
Separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others.  "Large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"
noun
1.
Someone who is or has been segregated.






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"Segregate" Quotes from Famous Books



... justice, absolute unerring justice. This law is the very least comprehended of men, because its majesty, its even-handedness has been so misinterpreted, so travestied by various kinds of religious teachers, rulers, and self-appointed judges. Man-made laws which everywhere prevail tend always to segregate people into classes, producing results devoid of equity, favoring the materially superior. It is quite common for people who know nothing whatever of the operations of occult and spiritual law to ignore all responsibility for their unhappy earthly experiences, ...
— Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul • Anna Bishop Scofield

... most radical and effective measure of all will be to arrest the professional prostitutes, segregate them, and keep them segregated during the dangerous years, except as genuine signs of intention to reform appear, in which case they may be released upon probation. The expense will be, at the outset, considerable. But the girls will ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... trees, and a small lake convenient. A farmer's family reluctantly consented to board and lodge them; also to give them the use of a bony horse and a disreputable one-seated wagon. After their arrival they promptly proceeded to segregate themselves from their fellow-boarders. The first day they fished a little, talked, read, slept, meditated, and smoked—that is, Mr. Baker did, enough for two; and Florence assisted by rolling cigarettes when the bowl of the meerschaum grew uncomfortably ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... which I separate the oxygen from the hydrogen by electricity. Water, as you know, is composed of two gases—oxygen and hydrogen. Two atoms of hydrogen combined with one atom of oxygen and make a tiny bit of water. By the aid of this special device I segregate the two gases, use the oxygen and ...
— Boy Scouts in the North Sea - The Mystery of a Sub • G. Harvey Ralphson

... general eye. This, owing to the fragmentary and disjointed state of his manuscripts, I have felt wholly unable to do; yet, being unwilling that the reader should be deprived of such parts of his lucubrations as seemed more finished, and not well discerning how to segregate these from the rest, I have concluded to send them all to the press ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell


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