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: --
Education was a protected category, but health was discriminated against in budgeting.
He certainly felt discriminated against on account of his religion, believing this to be why promotion was denied to him.
The less-skilled comprehenders did particularly poorly in the far condition and it was performance in this condition that reliably discriminated the two groups.
Despite being officially discriminated against as ' former exploiters ', large numbers achieved educational and professional success.
Much more alarming is the fact that happiness cannot be discriminated from anger either.
Allele-specific primers differ in the 3kterminal nucleotide to allow the different genotypes to be discriminated (details on request).
This correlated environmental influence cannot be discriminated from a true causal effect within the discordant twin design.
All factor-related items discriminated between hypochondriacal and non-hypochondriacal patients except items 24, 25 and 27-29.