segregate
/ˈsɛɡrɪɡeɪt/
verb
- To separate or set apart from others or from the main group.
- The school used to segregate students by gender in some classes.
- Recycling programs segregate glass, plastic, and paper into different bins.
- The hospital had to segregate patients with contagious diseases.
- To enforce the separation of racial, ethnic, or other groups, especially by law or policy.
- The court ruled that it was illegal to segregate public schools.
- Activists fought to end the practice of segregating people in public spaces.
- Laws once allowed cities to segregate neighborhoods by race.
noun
- A person or thing that is separated from a larger group.
- The manager placed the segregate in a separate office for privacy.
- The segregate from the main population showed different genetic traits.
- In the study, each segregate was analyzed individually.