Used in a Sentence

segregate

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for segregate.

Editorial note

The reason for the above is not because he's intentionally avoiding reality, it's because veterans often self-segregate in veterans groups.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech3

Quick take

An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of segregate gathered in one view.

noun

An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

adjective

Separate; select.

verb

(transitive) To separate.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for segregate.

noun

An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

adjective

Separate; select.

verb

(transitive) To separate.

verb

(transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.

Example sentences

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The reason for the above is not because he's intentionally avoiding reality, it's because veterans often self-segregate in veterans groups.

2

It's unfortunate but the reality is that manufacturers are too cheap/lazy to segregate devices on to separate L2 segments, deploy fw or keyed A3E until forced to by exposure of hack demos.

3

There could be a big opportunity here if you can segregate yourself from Evernote by niche-ing yourself towards developers and technical folk.

4

Could a town effectively segregate gays into separate but equal neighborhoods, with separate but equal businesses, churches, schools, etc?

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With docker (or virtualization) you can segregate them from each other.

6

Also as a way to racially and economically segregate the population.

7

One benefit of the conscious decision to segregate our public website from other services is that this event had no impact on end user authentication.

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It has been used to deny people segregate people from society; to experiment upon them without their will; to deny them medical treatment; to kill them.

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As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools I'm not sacrificing my children to the public school system.

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This is also why big funds want rules like trade-at (all orders must trade on-exchange) which eliminate the ability for market makers to explicitly segregate order flow.

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We want to segregate it into functions that are preferably easy to read so we can reason about what stateful effects do happen.

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> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals And military front lines.

Quote examples

1

While I generally agree that it's harder for big companies to innovate I think the key is to segregate the company into smaller units (Gladwell's "magic number 150").

2

I also agree about the "segregate the company" idea; for example Amazon silos its innovation units into separate companies with separate campuses to compensate for the natural organizational dynamic.

3

Just an FYI for everyone on the "segregated systems" bandwagon: If a compromised device can talk on the CAN bus it's game over since (pretty much) everything listens on that bus so you can't (without a lot of time and effort, implement a way to) pick and choose systems to segregate while maintaining wireless connectivity to those critical system.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use segregate in a sentence?

The reason for the above is not because he's intentionally avoiding reality, it's because veterans often self-segregate in veterans groups.

What does segregate mean?

An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

What part of speech is segregate?

segregate is commonly used as noun, adjective, verb.