segregate

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: seg=re=gate

CIDE DICTIONARY

segregate, a. [L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See Gregarious.].

•  Separate; select.  [1913 Webster]
•  Separated from others of the same kind.  [1913 Webster]

segregate, v. t. 

 To separate from others; to set apart.  [1913 Webster]
"They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations."  [1913 Webster]

segregate, v. i. 

 To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

segregate, 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.

Derivative

segregable adj. segregative adj.

segregate, adj.
1 Zool. simple or solitary, not compound.
2 archaic set apart, separate.

Etymology

L segregatus past part. (as SEGREGATE(1))

THESAURUS

segregate

abrupt, alien, alienate, analyze, anatomize, apart, atomize, bolt, cast off, cast out, change, choose, chop logic, close off, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, cull out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, demarcate, demark, depart, desynonymize, detached, difference, differentiate, disarticulate, disconnect, disconnected, discrete, discriminate, disengage, disequalize, disjoin, disjoint, disjunct, disrelated, dissociate, dissociated, distinguish, disunite, diversify, divide, divorce, draw the line, eject, enisle, estrange, exotic, expel, extraneous, foreign, ghettoize, gin, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, individualize, individuate, insular, insulate, irrelative, island, isolate, isolated, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, leave, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, modify, other, outlandish, part, particularize, personalize, pick out, pull away, pull back, pull out, put aside, quarantine, refine a distinction, removed, riddle, rope off, screen, screen out, seal off, seclude, select, separate, separated, sequester, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize, shut off, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, single, sort, sort out, specialize, split, split hairs, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, strange, subdivide, subtilize, subtract, thrash, thresh, throw off, throw out, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, uncouple, unrelatable, unrelated, unyoke, vary, winnow, withdraw

ROGET THESAURUS

segregate

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Exclusion

VB be excluded from, exclude, bar, leave out, shut out, bar out, reject, repudiate, blackball, lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside, relegate, segregate, throw overboard, strike off, strike out, neglect, banish, separate, pass over, omit, garble, eliminate, weed, winnow, be secluded, live secluded, keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background, keep snug, shut oneself up, deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux, retire, retire from the world, take the veil, abandon, sport one's oak, cut, cut dead, refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge, look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon, repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate, banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round, depopulate, dispeople, unpeople.