segregate
verb/ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/
Etymology From Latin sēgregātus, perfect passive participle of sēgregō (“to separate”), from sē- (“apart”) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious, aggregate.
1
To separate.
- One aim of the reorganisation on both routes is to segregate completely the operation of the District and Tilbury Lines between London and Upminster, removing physical connections between the two.1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 529:
- Throw me in cuffs, no chance of parole / Back in the house, thirty days in the hole / Segregate me from the local population, your love is, uh, incarceration2015, “Your Love is Incarceration”, in Clutch:
2
In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
- Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.
3
Government, Politics To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
- Although the California State Supreme Court ended the official segregation of public schools in 1877, Sacramento continued to segregate well into the 1880s (Sacramento African American Historical and Cultural Society [SAAHCS] 1990:9, 20).2016 June 16, Terry L Jones, Jennifer E Perry, Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Although some lunch counters continued to segregate well into 1965, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter relented on July 25, 1960.26 Unwilling for the slow process of litigation in federal courts to work its way through[…]2019 March 28, Peter Charles, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950–1975, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 137:
1 more example
- […] the National Guard continued to segregate and practice racial discrimination; and black soldiers often found it difficult to obtain decent housing in surrounding communities.2021 December 15, Christy McGuire, Taps For A Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
- Antonyms
- aggregate, coalesce, lump together
- Derived terms
- consegregate, cosegregate, cosegregating, desegregate, missegregate, nonsegregating, outsegregate, presegregate, resegregate, segregatable, segregative, segregator, self-segregate
- Related terms
- segregation, unmix
- Hypernyms
- divide
- Hyponyms
- particularize, single out