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say it: SEH-gruh-gayt
segregate is a verb and noun meaning "separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation". It is pronounced /ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/ — SEH-gruh-gayt. It carries 4 recorded senses.
separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
“This neighborhood is segregated”
“We don't segregate in this county”
divide from the main body or mass and collect
“Many towns segregated into new counties”
“Experiments show clearly that genes segregate”
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”
someone who is or has been segregated
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for segregate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.