0 past simple and past participle of discriminate
1 to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc.:
2 to be able to see the difference between two things or people:
The second (12% of the variance) discriminated the more prosperous from the more disadvantaged of the peripheral areas.
Elderly people would thus not be discriminated against but just treated appropriately, according to their different status or condition.
Therefore, on this matched task, accent discriminated between the speech-disordered group and the control group.
One strategy for reducing difference threshold when the time intervals to be discriminated are long is to adopt a counting strategy, that is, using chunks.
Participants across several studies using different types of materials discriminated new grammatical from ungrammatical test items, suggesting that they had learned the paradigm structure.
A person is discriminated if treated less favorably than someone else because of a property that he or she has but the other person lacks.
Staining of inner segments of photoreceptors was easily discriminated.
All factor-related items discriminated between hypochondriacal and non-hypochondriacal patients except items 24, 25 and 27-29.