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单词 segregate
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Definition of segregate in English:

segregate

verb ˈsɛɡrɪɡeɪtˈsɛɡrəˌɡeɪt
  • 1with object Set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.

    apprehensions about groups segregated from the rest of society
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They can be defined sociologically and claim a unity that partly or wholly segregates them from the surrounding society.
    • The fragmentation of groups by government and police enable them to isolate and segregate different elements of a social movement in order to attack individual parts and impose an uncontested dominant structure.
    • One of the key principles in corporate governance practice is to properly segregate the powers for decision-making, execution and independent monitoring and challenge.
    • The Pentagon's official policy is to segregate juvenile prisoners from the rest of the prison population, and allow young inmates to join family members also being detained.
    • It is also pressing for the lanes for public transport to be segregated from the rest of the traffic on the bridge.
    • The key to good recycling practice is to ensure that all recyclable materials are segregated correctly.
    • At present the army and the police are segregated from the rest of society, and are more or less unaccountable to the mass of people.
    • Also, let us not forget that the military institution provides us with a means to segregate the less desirable members of society from the rest of us normals.
    • Our data suggest that this difference in tertiary structure alone will segregate these membrane proteins into two different diffusion classes as well.
    • The four inmates - who are segregated from the rest of the prisoners - were only allowed to associate with each other one at a time, until earlier this year.
    • In fact the only reason we're segregating it from the body of our posts is because it's got a different name.
    • The last thing he and his fellow polio sufferers wanted was to be segregated and treated as people apart, because they were not.
    • She has been segregated from the rest of the women in the prison ‘for her own safety’.
    • I strongly believe that it is anti-social to segregate children's entertainment away from their family as a separate category.
    • The securities laws now provide that a firm must segregate its customers' moneys and hold them in a separate client account.
    Synonyms
    separate, set apart, keep apart, sort out
    isolate, quarantine, insulate, exclude, closet, protect, shield, partition
    divide, detach, disconnect, sever, divorce, dissociate, cut off
    sequester
    1. 1.1 Separate or divide along racial, sexual, or religious lines.
      blacks were segregated in churches, schools, and colleges
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A public middle school in South Carolina is segregating its classrooms.
      • Black men fought in racially segregated units in the Civil War, first with African American officers and then, after 1863, with white officers
      • The units are ethnically segregated and under a separate ethnic chain of command.
      • It required that blacks and whites be segregated on the basis of race.
      • Brown has been overturned and the education system is segregated again.
      • That fence has served its place, but now the different races living here aren't segregated anymore.
      • Schools in Dundee are already beginning to segregate pupils by gender for PE classes, a practice which was phased out after the Second World War.
      • Even the federal government and military were segregated up to this time.
      • The Alabama bus system was segregated by race, with the first ten seats reserved exclusively for white people.
      • Recent research into the effect of US Charter Schools points to the creation of a socially segregated two-tier system.
      • Employment opportunities in segregated or partially segregated settings will continue under the new legislation.
      • Up to that point, baseball had been as segregated as the rest of American life and blacks were forced to practise their craft in the Negro Leagues.
      • At first attending religious services segregated by race, slaves gradually accepted Christianity.
      • The result was a travel industry segregated along race lines, which reflected ‘not racism but ignorance’.
      • The 24th Infantry Regiment was as segregated as the rest of the Army at the time; that is, white at the top, black in the ranks.
      • Racial groups are segregating themselves and retreating into ‘comfort zones’ made up of people like themselves.
      • Blacks in Washington, led by Sojourner Truth, boycotted segregated public transport.
      • Baltzell maintained that social status in the U.S. has been segregated along religious and regional lines.
      • All segregated education must end.
      • The effect of non-secular, religious and segregated education is very destructive on the society as a whole, and on our children's happy, normal life, and upbringing.
  • 2Genetics
    no object (of pairs of alleles) be separated at meiosis and transmitted independently via separate gametes.

    the gene pairs segregate at reduction division
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The first step of the linkage analysis is to test whether pairs of loci are segregating independently.
    • During the first meiotic division, homologous chromosomes pair and segregate into two cells.
    • A further level of complexity is added in germ cells where homologous chromosomes pair and segregate in meiosis I and sister chromatids remain associated until meiosis II.
    • Sutton worked with grasshopper chromosomes, and it was in this paper that he showed that chromosomes occur in distinct pairs, which segregate at meiosis.
    • In the above simulation, I assumed that for every codon, there were at most two alleles segregating in the population at any given time.
noun ˈsɛɡrɪɡətˈsɛɡrəɡət
  • 1Genetics
    An allele that has undergone segregation.

  • 2Botany
    A species within an aggregate.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During this drought simulation, the ME-transformed plants depleted soil moisture more slowly than did the wild type or the null segregates.

Derivatives

  • segregable

  • adjective ˈsɛɡrəɡəb(ə)lˈsɛɡrəɡəb(ə)l
    • Such situations are effectively normal and result in homologous products that resolve into physically distinct and freely segregable entities at anaphase I.
  • segregative

  • adjective
    • In attempting to create a more nuanced understanding of communal eating, Grignon suggests several binary typologies: domestic and institutional; everyday and exceptional; and segregative and transgressive.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The declaration in itself is discriminatory, segregative and may affect other religious groups psychologically and fail to contribute to the spiritual well being of the country.
      • I then discuss the local implementation and segregative effects of urban renewal and public housing in Kansas City.
      • If, after passage of the Civil Rights Act, the company willingly abandoned its facially segregative policy, it could still carry forward the effects of its past segregation through other already-existing facially neutral rules.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin segregat- 'separated from the flock', from the verb segregare, from se- 'apart' + grex, greg- 'flock'.

 
 

Definition of segregate in US English:

segregate

verbˈsɛɡrəˌɡeɪtˈseɡrəˌɡāt
[with object]usually be segregated
  • 1Set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.

    hazardous waste needs to be segregated from ordinary trash
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Also, let us not forget that the military institution provides us with a means to segregate the less desirable members of society from the rest of us normals.
    • One of the key principles in corporate governance practice is to properly segregate the powers for decision-making, execution and independent monitoring and challenge.
    • She has been segregated from the rest of the women in the prison ‘for her own safety’.
    • The four inmates - who are segregated from the rest of the prisoners - were only allowed to associate with each other one at a time, until earlier this year.
    • The securities laws now provide that a firm must segregate its customers' moneys and hold them in a separate client account.
    • Our data suggest that this difference in tertiary structure alone will segregate these membrane proteins into two different diffusion classes as well.
    • The key to good recycling practice is to ensure that all recyclable materials are segregated correctly.
    • It is also pressing for the lanes for public transport to be segregated from the rest of the traffic on the bridge.
    • At present the army and the police are segregated from the rest of society, and are more or less unaccountable to the mass of people.
    • The Pentagon's official policy is to segregate juvenile prisoners from the rest of the prison population, and allow young inmates to join family members also being detained.
    • The last thing he and his fellow polio sufferers wanted was to be segregated and treated as people apart, because they were not.
    • The fragmentation of groups by government and police enable them to isolate and segregate different elements of a social movement in order to attack individual parts and impose an uncontested dominant structure.
    • In fact the only reason we're segregating it from the body of our posts is because it's got a different name.
    • They can be defined sociologically and claim a unity that partly or wholly segregates them from the surrounding society.
    • I strongly believe that it is anti-social to segregate children's entertainment away from their family as a separate category.
    Synonyms
    separate, set apart, keep apart, sort out
    1. 1.1 Separate or divide (people, activities, or institutions) along racial, sexual, or religious lines.
      blacks were segregated in churches, schools, and colleges
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Brown has been overturned and the education system is segregated again.
      • Even the federal government and military were segregated up to this time.
      • A public middle school in South Carolina is segregating its classrooms.
      • Recent research into the effect of US Charter Schools points to the creation of a socially segregated two-tier system.
      • Blacks in Washington, led by Sojourner Truth, boycotted segregated public transport.
      • The effect of non-secular, religious and segregated education is very destructive on the society as a whole, and on our children's happy, normal life, and upbringing.
      • That fence has served its place, but now the different races living here aren't segregated anymore.
      • Black men fought in racially segregated units in the Civil War, first with African American officers and then, after 1863, with white officers
      • It required that blacks and whites be segregated on the basis of race.
      • Schools in Dundee are already beginning to segregate pupils by gender for PE classes, a practice which was phased out after the Second World War.
      • Up to that point, baseball had been as segregated as the rest of American life and blacks were forced to practise their craft in the Negro Leagues.
      • The result was a travel industry segregated along race lines, which reflected ‘not racism but ignorance’.
      • Baltzell maintained that social status in the U.S. has been segregated along religious and regional lines.
      • The 24th Infantry Regiment was as segregated as the rest of the Army at the time; that is, white at the top, black in the ranks.
      • The Alabama bus system was segregated by race, with the first ten seats reserved exclusively for white people.
      • Racial groups are segregating themselves and retreating into ‘comfort zones’ made up of people like themselves.
      • At first attending religious services segregated by race, slaves gradually accepted Christianity.
      • All segregated education must end.
      • The units are ethnically segregated and under a separate ethnic chain of command.
      • Employment opportunities in segregated or partially segregated settings will continue under the new legislation.
    2. 1.2Genetics no object (of pairs of alleles) be separated at meiosis and transmitted independently via separate gametes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • During the first meiotic division, homologous chromosomes pair and segregate into two cells.
      • Sutton worked with grasshopper chromosomes, and it was in this paper that he showed that chromosomes occur in distinct pairs, which segregate at meiosis.
      • In the above simulation, I assumed that for every codon, there were at most two alleles segregating in the population at any given time.
      • A further level of complexity is added in germ cells where homologous chromosomes pair and segregate in meiosis I and sister chromatids remain associated until meiosis II.
      • The first step of the linkage analysis is to test whether pairs of loci are segregating independently.
nounˈseɡrəɡətˈsɛɡrəɡət
  • 1Genetics
    An allele that has undergone segregation.

  • 2Botany
    A species within an aggregate.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During this drought simulation, the ME-transformed plants depleted soil moisture more slowly than did the wild type or the null segregates.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin segregat- ‘separated from the flock’, from the verb segregare, from se- ‘apart’ + grex, greg- ‘flock’.

 
 
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