segregate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who is or has been segregated
  2. verb separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
    • This neighborhood is segregated
    • We don't segregate in this county
  3. verb divide from the main body or mass and collect
    • Many towns segregated into new counties
    • Experiments show clearly that genes segregate
  4. verb separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
    • the sun segregates the carbon
    • large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims

WordNet

Seg"re*gate adjective
Etymology
L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See Gregarious.
Definitions
  1. Separate; select.
  2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.
Seg"re*gate transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Segregated ; present participle & verbal noun Segregating
Definitions
  1. To separate from others; to set apart.
    They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations. I. Taylor.
Seg"re*gate intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Geol.) To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.

Webster 1913