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单词 segregation
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Definition of segregation in English:

segregation

noun ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nˌsɛɡrəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n
  • 1mass noun The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

    the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This kind of segregation may be self-imposed - but it is also the result of decades and centuries of injustice.
    • In the first round segregation came about at the level of the locality itself, as people moved to blocks inhabited by members of the same community or faith.
    • Horizontal segregation exists when women and men work in different types of occupation.
    • Several spoke about the need for more and better publicised youth facilities, an end to segregation in schools, and the problem of drug dealers in their communities.
    • Both are oil towns with amazingly strict class segregation.
    • Strict gender segregation is sanctioned by the state and society.
    • Like so many institutionalized evils, segregation ultimately depended on public accommodation.
    • Occupational segregation occurs from a very early age.
    • I couldn't speak to housing patterns and other forms of segregation.
    • It is also a city of exploitation and segregation and fear.
    • We all grew - as students and people - with the experience of integration after years of segregation.
    Synonyms
    separation, setting apart, keeping apart, sorting out
    isolation, quarantine, insulation, exclusion, closeting, protection, shielding, partitioning
    division, detachment, disconnection, dissociation
    sequestration, partition
    in South Africa, historical apartheid
    1. 1.1 The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
      an official policy of racial segregation
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In many large suburban districts, rapid racial change and spreading segregation are occurring.
      • The segregation of communities was imposed through racist housing practices by local authorities and estate agents.
      • The Harvard study also identifies the importance of the relationship between racial segregation and poverty.
      • The general trend shows areas with higher racial residential segregation linked to less diverse religious communities.
      • By the mid-1950s it seemed segregation in the South would last for decades.
      • All except the most rabid racists considered racial segregation immoral and indefensible.
      • After the war the southern establishment propped up segregation.
      • The Old America had been one of black and white forcibly kept apart by segregation, economics, and prejudice.
      • The US movement did not have a very impressive record of reaching out to African Americans or openly challenging racial discrimination and segregation.
      • Blacks could escape the stigma of racial segregation enforced on southern railroads and buses.
      • Perhaps most striking is King's seething anger over the indignities of segregation.
      • Without progressive leadership, would segregation have been outlawed?
      • The commonly held meaning of apartheid is a regime of government that enshrines racial segregation in law.
      • As those who could afford to left, racial segregation in the area worsened.
      • The rightness of this famous decision invalidating racial segregation in public schools is no longer open to debate.
      • Apartheid enforced the oppressive dominance of a white European elite through segregation along purely racial lines.
      • This meant that states - especially in the South - would no longer be able to justify laws which enforced segregation along racial lines.
      • In other words, he favored continuing discrimination and racial segregation.
      • British administration of the territory was characterized by racial segregation.
      • The Roberts case led to the first law abolishing racial segregation in the nation.
  • 2Genetics
    The separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • High fidelity of meiotic chromosome segregation is essential for the propagation of all sexually reproducing organisms.
    • No regions of the genome exhibited nonrandom segregation of any markers in the unaffected females tested.
    • For analysis of interference and map distances, all tetrads showing non-Mendelian segregation of any markers were excluded from analysis.
    • Meiotic chromosome segregation is initiated when tension signals the bipolar attachment of microtubules to each homolog pair.
    • Conversion results in non-Mendelian segregation of alleles in the germ cell where it occurs.

Derivatives

  • segregational

  • adjective
    • Under this new practice of segregational nationalism African American students and faculty will find themselves merged into the great American melting pot and ultimately not represented at all.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These dicentric chromosomes exhibited novel segregational properties and their behavior is described in detail elsewhere.
      • Continued practices of duplicating programs when geography and demand dictate otherwise clearly points to a segregational vestige.
      • However, although Mendelian inheritance may be incorporated into a game theoretic approach, standard matrix game models are defined solely in terms of phenotypes and ignore the segregational effects of Mendelian inheritance.
  • segregationist

  • noun ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nɪstˌsɛɡrəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nəst
    • A person who supports the policy of enforced separation of different racial groups.

      a time when staunch segregationists dominated the political structure
 
 

Definition of segregation in US English:

segregation

nounˌseɡrəˈɡāSH(ə)nˌsɛɡrəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n
  • 1The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

    the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Several spoke about the need for more and better publicised youth facilities, an end to segregation in schools, and the problem of drug dealers in their communities.
    • Both are oil towns with amazingly strict class segregation.
    • Like so many institutionalized evils, segregation ultimately depended on public accommodation.
    • Horizontal segregation exists when women and men work in different types of occupation.
    • It is also a city of exploitation and segregation and fear.
    • We all grew - as students and people - with the experience of integration after years of segregation.
    • Strict gender segregation is sanctioned by the state and society.
    • In the first round segregation came about at the level of the locality itself, as people moved to blocks inhabited by members of the same community or faith.
    • This kind of segregation may be self-imposed - but it is also the result of decades and centuries of injustice.
    • I couldn't speak to housing patterns and other forms of segregation.
    • Occupational segregation occurs from a very early age.
    Synonyms
    separation, setting apart, keeping apart, sorting out
    1. 1.1 The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.
      an official policy of racial segregation
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The segregation of communities was imposed through racist housing practices by local authorities and estate agents.
      • As those who could afford to left, racial segregation in the area worsened.
      • Blacks could escape the stigma of racial segregation enforced on southern railroads and buses.
      • The general trend shows areas with higher racial residential segregation linked to less diverse religious communities.
      • All except the most rabid racists considered racial segregation immoral and indefensible.
      • By the mid-1950s it seemed segregation in the South would last for decades.
      • The Old America had been one of black and white forcibly kept apart by segregation, economics, and prejudice.
      • In many large suburban districts, rapid racial change and spreading segregation are occurring.
      • The Roberts case led to the first law abolishing racial segregation in the nation.
      • British administration of the territory was characterized by racial segregation.
      • The Harvard study also identifies the importance of the relationship between racial segregation and poverty.
      • Perhaps most striking is King's seething anger over the indignities of segregation.
      • This meant that states - especially in the South - would no longer be able to justify laws which enforced segregation along racial lines.
      • The commonly held meaning of apartheid is a regime of government that enshrines racial segregation in law.
      • The US movement did not have a very impressive record of reaching out to African Americans or openly challenging racial discrimination and segregation.
      • The rightness of this famous decision invalidating racial segregation in public schools is no longer open to debate.
      • Apartheid enforced the oppressive dominance of a white European elite through segregation along purely racial lines.
      • In other words, he favored continuing discrimination and racial segregation.
      • After the war the southern establishment propped up segregation.
      • Without progressive leadership, would segregation have been outlawed?
    2. 1.2Genetics The separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Conversion results in non-Mendelian segregation of alleles in the germ cell where it occurs.
      • No regions of the genome exhibited nonrandom segregation of any markers in the unaffected females tested.
      • High fidelity of meiotic chromosome segregation is essential for the propagation of all sexually reproducing organisms.
      • For analysis of interference and map distances, all tetrads showing non-Mendelian segregation of any markers were excluded from analysis.
      • Meiotic chromosome segregation is initiated when tension signals the bipolar attachment of microtubules to each homolog pair.
 
 
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