Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, a. [L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare
to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd.
See {Gregarious}.]
1. Separate; select.
2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind.
Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Segregated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Segregating}.]
To separate from others; to set apart.
They are still segregated, Christians from Christians,
under odious designations. --I. Taylor.
Segregate \Seg"re*gate\, v. i. (Geol.)
To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers
or along lines of fracture, as in the process of
crystallization or solidification.
Source : WordNet®
segregate
v 1: separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial
segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We
don't segregate in this county" [ant: {desegregate}]
2: divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns
segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly
that genes segregate"
3: separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a
group apart from others; "the sun degregates the carbon";
"large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"