segregate
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
someone who is or has been segregated
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Sense 2 verb
separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
This neighborhood is segregated
Types & categories
- discriminate hypernym
Related & opposite
- desegregate antonym
- separatism derivation
- segregator derivation
Sense 3 verb
divide from the main body or mass and collect
Many towns segregated into new counties
Types & categories
- part hypernym
Related & opposite
- sequestration derivation
Sense 4 verb
separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
the sun segregates the carbon
Types & categories
- isolate hypernym
Related & opposite
- sequestration derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | desegregate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | separatism |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | segregator |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | discriminate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sequestration |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | part |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | sequestration |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | isolate |