segregate

/'segrigit/

Thân thiện

A teacher uses colored blocks to segregate them by shape on a classroom table.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To separate or isolate one thing from another and place it in a group apart from others: This is the core meaning, involving the act of setting something apart based on a specific characteristic.
   • To divide from a main body or mass and collect: This meaning emphasizes the physical or conceptual separation and grouping of parts.
   • To separate by race, religion, or other social categories; to practice a policy of such separation: This is a specific and often critical social meaning, referring to enforced separation of groups.

2. Noun:

   • Someone who is or has been segregated: A person who has been subjected to the act of segregation.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • The laboratory protocol requires you to segregate the chemical waste. (The act of separating and isolating.)
  • Over time, the crystals segregate from the solution. (Dividing from a main mass.)
  • For decades, laws existed to segregate schools by race. (Separating by social category.)
• Noun:
  • The policy created a nation of segregates and segregators. (Referring to the people who were separated.)

Advanced Usage

• In Genetics: "Segregate" describes how pairs of genes separate during the formation of reproductive cells.
  • The alleles for flower color segregate during gamete formation.
• In Sociology/Politics: The term is central to discussions of social justice, discrimination, and historical policies like apartheid or Jim Crow laws.
  • The city's housing policies effectively segregate communities by income.

Variants and Related Words

• Segregation (n): The act or state of being segregated.
  • Racial segregation was legally abolished.
• Segregated (adj): Describing something that has been separated or is characterized by separation.
  • A segregated neighborhood.
• Segregative (adj): Tending to segregate.
• Desegregate (v): The opposite action; to end segregation.

Synonyms

• Separate: To cause to move or be apart.
• Isolate: To place alone or apart from others.
• Divide: To separate into parts or groups.
• Partition: To divide into distinct parts.

Antonyms

• Integrate: To combine or bring together into a whole.
• Unite: To join together for a common purpose.
• Combine: To merge or blend together.
• Mix: To put together so that components are intermingled.

Related Phrases/Idioms

• De facto segregation: Segregation that occurs in practice without being enforced by law.
  • Despite legal integration, de facto segregation persists in many school districts.
• Self-segregate: When individuals or groups voluntarily separate themselves from others.
  • Students sometimes self-segregate in the cafeteria based on shared interests.

Học thuật

Noun

1. someone who is or has been segregated

Verb

1. 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
2. divide from the main body or mass and collect
   • Many towns segregated into new counties
   • Experiments show clearly that genes segregate
3. separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
   • This neighborhood is segregated
   • We don't segregate in this county