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Segregated   /sˈɛgrəgˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Segregated

adjective
1.
Separated or isolated from others or a main group.  Synonym: unintegrated.  "A segregated neighborhood"  Antonym: integrated.


Segregate

verb
(past & past part. segregated; pres. part. segregating)
1.
Separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation.  "We don't segregate in this county"  Antonym: desegregate.
2.
Divide from the main body or mass and collect.  "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
3.
Separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others.  "Large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"





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"Segregated" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the fractional constituents which are necessary for the perfect being. Complete womanhood, like genius—rarer though not more valuable—depends upon the co-existence of many factors, some of which may be coupled and segregated together in gameto-genesis, while others may be quite independent, only chance determining the throw of them. And the question of incompatibility or mutual repulsion of factors is of the gravest concern; ...
— Woman and Womanhood - A Search for Principles • C. W. Saleeby
... teachers constitute a subject which is of considerable psychological interest and of no little practical importance.[163] These girlish devotions, on the borderland between friendship and sexual passion, are found in all countries where girls are segregated for educational purposes, and their symptoms are, on the whole, singularly uniform, though they vary in intensity and character to some extent, from time to time and from place to place, sometimes assuming an epidemic form. ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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