Betekenis van segregate In het Nederlands

• 0 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.

• 1 to keep one group of people apart from another and treat them differently, especially because of race, sex, or religion:

  • a segregated school/society

  • Black residents were segregated from white residents in the area.

  • an urban culture segregated by sex where boys "learned" how to be men

• 2 (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.

• 3 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.