segregate

Adjective

segregate (comparative more segregate, superlative most segregate)

1. Separate; select.
2. Separated from others of the same kind.
3. Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.

Verb

IPA/ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/

segregate (third-person singular simple present segregates, present participle segregating, simple past and past participle segregated)

1. (transitive) 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. (transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
   • Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.
3. (intransitive) 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

Noun

segregate (plural segregates)

1. An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.
   • A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.
   • […] to determine whether geographic segregates are discernible.1949, Agriculture Handbook, number 401, page 171