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词汇 segregate
释义 segregate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈseɡ.rɪ.ɡeɪt/ us /ˈseɡ.rə.ɡeɪt/

segregateverb[T] (KEEP SEPARATE)


to keep one thing separate from another:
The psychiatric section is segregated from the rest of the prison.
The systems will have to be able to segregate clients' money from the firm's own cash.
About 82,000 homes were given color-coded plastic tubs for cans, glass and paper and asked to segregate recyclables.
We will be creating a special fund segregated from our other operations.
A Senate investigation of illegal domestic spying led to changes designed to segregate the operations of the FBI and the CIA.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Isolating and separating
at one/this etc. removeidiom
Brexit
compartmentalization
compartmentalize
compartmentation
estrange
estranged from someone
estrangement
estrangement from someone
free-floating
remove
resegregate
rope
rope something/somewhere off
screen something off
uninsulated
unintegrated
wrench
wrenching
zonal

segregateverb[T] (BY RACE, SEX ETC)


to keep one group of people apart from another and treat them differently, especially because of race, sex, or religion: (尤指基于种族或性别原因)隔离并区别对待
a segregated school/society实行种族隔离的学校/社会
Black residents were segregated from white residents in the area.
an urban culture segregated by sex where boys "learned" how to be men
The Population Registration Act of 1950 categorized and segregated the people of South Africa.
The class-action lawsuit alleged the hotel charged black customers higher prices than white customers and segregated them in less desirable rooms.
They passed laws prohibiting mixed marriage and segregating schools.
Although the group is mixed, they have segregated themselves into boys at one end of the table, girls at the other.

segregateverb[T] (BIOLOGY)


biology specialized
(of pairs of alleles(= different forms of the same gene)) to separate during meiosis(= the cell division that happens as part of the process of producing young animals or plants) and pass separately to separate gametes(= reproductive cells):
Disruption of the spindle can cause chromosomes to segregate abnormally at either of the two meiotic divisions.
Multiple nuclei could arise if one or more chromosomes dispersed and segregated into discrete packages.
At a marker locus, a randomly selected parent does not necessarily segregate for four distinguished alleles.
Identical twins share 100% of their genes, and fraternal twins share 50% of their segregating genes, on average.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Genetics
accession number
adenine
anaphase
autosomal
autosomally
genetic fingerprinting
genetically
genetically engineered
geneticist
genic
genomic
genomics
monozygotic
mutate
non-Darwinian
non-familial
non-genetic
non-mutant
nondominant
sex-linked

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segregated
segregation

segregate | American Dictionary


segregate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈseɡ·rɪˌɡeɪt/
social studies
to keep one group of people apart from others because of race, religion, sex, etc.:
Most people wouldn’t remember that some ballparks were segregated (= black people were kept apart) in the early years.
The boys and girls were segregated into different classes.

segregation


noun[ U ]us/ˌseɡ·rɪˈɡeɪ·ʃən/
racial segregation
Almost every community has laws prohibiting segregation in housing.
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