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单词 segregation
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segregationn.

/ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən/
Etymology: < late Latin sēgregātiōn-em, noun of action < Latin sēgregāre : see segregate v.
1. The action of segregating.
a. The separation or isolation of a portion of a community or a body of persons from the rest.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > separation or isolation of part of community
segregation1615
1615 N. Byfield Expos. Epist. Coloss. (1628) (i. 18) 122 The Church..is Holy by segregation from the sinnefull world.
a1677 T. Manton Serm. Psalm cxix & cxxx (1725) 600 Mat. 25. 32, 33... There is a congregation and then a segregation.
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) I. 384 There would be that segregation from the community into particular societies.
1849 A. Bryson in J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) 455 The utter impossibility of complete segregation [of fever patients], even in the most roomy vessel.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. iii. 158 The social segregation is carried to such an extreme, that members of the several classes..refuse to associate together.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. vi. 215 The provision which the early Eastern Church made, with true Oriental feeling, for the segregation of women into galleries.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 631 Manson has also declared segregation to be the first law of hygiene for the Europeans in the tropics.
b. Dispersion, break up (of a collective unity).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > driving away in all directions
sparpling1434
dispersionc1450
skailing?c1450
sparklingc1460
disparplinga1513
dissipation1545
dispersing1604
segregationa1616
scatteration1776
disjectiona1806
dispersal1821
scatteraway1851
spreadeagling1869
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 10 Mon. What shall we heare of this [sc. a storm]? 2 Gent. A segregation of the Turkish Fleete. View more context for this quotation
c. The separation of a portion or portions of a collective or complex unity from the rest; the isolation of particular constituents of a compound or mixture.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > separating from main body
scattering1382
segregation1617
singling1625
dismemberment1838
off-break1866
split-off1935
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 347 Segregation is the solution of that which was whole and perfect into parts diuided, which flow not together as colliquables dissolued.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvii. viii. 1101 Vinegar is made by the corruption of wine, and the segregation of the fiery and aiery parts.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. x. §1 658 Now I have but one Matter more to work up,..which is a Segregation of Libel from History, which this Author has blended together.
1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 5 190 These observations..tend to authorize the segregation of a very fine set of oracles from those of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xxi. 551 A fourth hypothesis considers veins to have been slowly filled by Segregation, or infiltration... Segregation of this kind may have taken place from electro-chemical agency, continued during long periods of time.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 43 Ontogenetic facts point to the primitive segregation of the nervous system from the ectoderm.
1886 Ld. Coleridge in Law Times 81 65/2 The general costs of the action, which remain after the segregation of these separate costs.
in combination (Geology).1875 J. W. Dawson Life's Dawn on Earth ii. 28 Many of the veins are not true fissures but..segregation veins.1888 J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 447 Segregation vein, a vein which has been produced by the segregation of the component mineral matter of a rock along fissures.
d. spec. Separation from a church or ecclesiastical organization: chiefly in reproachful sense, schism. Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > schism > [noun]
schismacy1387
schism1390
scission1443
segregationa1555
concision1557
scissure1566
formal schism1641
secession1660
a1555 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 219 If we behold through ye iniquity of tyme, segregations to be made wyth counterfayt religion.
1662 H. Hibbert Exercitationes Theologicæ 36 in Syntagma Theologicum Let the seperatist..through his sullen segregation..be a thief to himself.
a1680 J. Corbet Nonconformist's Plea (1683) 26 There is a great difference between inimical segregation, like sedition in a Commonwealth; and a going severally upon weighty reasons.
e. Genetics. The separation of pairs of homologous alleles or chromosomes, esp. as occurs at meiosis in the formation of gametes by a heterozygous organism, to whose progeny different traits may consequently be transmitted.
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1902 W. F. R. Weldon in Biometrika 1 229 If the hybrids of the first generations [of two races of peas]..be allowed to fertilise themselves, all possible combinations of the ancestral race-characters will appear in the second generation with equal frequency... Characters intermediate between those of the ancestral races will not occur... This may be called the Law of Segregation.
1904 Rep. Evol. Comm. Royal Soc. II. 128 The balance of evidence is in favour of the belief that gametic segregation takes place at the reduction-division.
1905 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (1907) 23 (margin) The Principles of Gametic Segregation.
1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity 11 This phenomenon, the dissociation of characters from each other in the course of the formation of the germs, we speak of as segregation.
1909 R. H. Lock Variation, Heredity, & Evol. viii. 202 Mendel's law of segregation.
1930 R. A. Fisher Genetical Theory Nat. Selection i. 8 The segregation of single pairs of genes, that is of single factors, was demonstrated by Mendel in his paper of 1865.
1954 Genetics 39 432 The..abnormal segregation of s has been observed whenever C 602/λ has been used as the F-parent in cross.
1970 Watsonia 8 48 We hope that the present investigation will show clearly that the concept of segregation following allopolyploidy (intergenomic segregation, Jones 1967) can offer another possible explanation of this phenomenon.
f. The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or institution. Cf. apartheid n.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > segregation or discrimination
discrimination1819
colour discrimination1868
colour bar1869
segregation1903
plural democracy1939
apartheid1947
parallel development1950
separate development1955
petty apartheid1964
1903 T. T. Fortune in B. T. Washington et al. Negro Problem vii. 215 The Afro-American people have been held together rather by the segregation decreed by law..than by ties of consanguinity.
1916 Cases Supreme Court Virginia 117 692 The cities and towns of this State have the power.. to pass segregation ordinances separating the places of residence of white and colored citizens, respectively.
1927 W. M. Macmillan Cape Colour Question xviii. 288 All recent restrictive legislation, designed for the ‘segregation’ of the Natives, classes the ‘Eurafricans’ with the Europeans.
1947 Forum (Johannesburg) 17 May 29/1 Political segregation is only possible where territorial segregation is in force.
1952 N.Y. Times 14 Dec. E9/2 A ‘statement of experts’..has been filed in behalf of the NAACP, citing the ‘effects of segregation and the consequences of de-segregation’.
1957 Times 18 May 6/3 The ruling of the Supreme Court that racial segregation in public schools [in South Africa] was unconstitutional.
1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 25 Apr. a1/6 The black majority has the franchise in tribal homelands under South Africa's race segregation policy.
g. The isolation or separate confinement of dangerous or troublesome prisoners. Hence concrete (also segregation unit) a part of a prison designated for this purpose. Chiefly U.S.
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1952 K. J. Scudder Prisoners are People 82 We set aside a few cells at Chino for segregation... If some man at Chino becomes defiant or refuses to work, he is placed in segregation.
1955 T. E. Gaddis Birdman of Alcatraz x. 91 The rear half of the structure held eighteen segregation cells... It was a prison within a prison.
1964 D. Glaser Effectiveness of Prison & Parole Syst. viii. 174 The duration of disciplinary segregation is much briefer in federal prisons than in most state prisons... Men in segregation now receive the regular inmate food.
1964 D. Glaser Effectiveness of Prison & Parole Syst. viii. 175 Such units, usually called ‘administrative segregation’ in federal prisons, resemble the regular disciplinary section of a prison... The inmate may be restricted to quarters temporarily without being transferred to the segregation unit.
1974 P. W. Keve Prison Life & Human Worth ix. 158 The segregation unit needs intensive service.
1974 P. W. Keve Prison Life & Human Worth ix. 162 A man..cannot get out of segregation unless he meets certain good behavior standards.
1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 114/3 Such sentences often included a certain number of days in segregation.
2. The condition of being segregated.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun]
sequestration1565
soleness1587
removednessa1616
sequestera1616
segregation1668
separation1685
insulation1798
isolation1833
social isolation1833
asideness1880
purdah1912
lockdown1984
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. ii. 407 To which [companionship] the opposite..is being in a state of Segregation from others.
1718 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I (1863) xi. 386 Sooner than unite with her [the church of Rome]..I should rather choose to live in a state of segregation.
1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) 81 To show the selectness and segregation of their accomplishments.
3. concrete. Something segregated; in early use, †a schismatic body.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun]
churcheOE
kirkc1175
spousea1200
lawa1225
lorea1225
religionc1325
faithc1384
sectc1386
seta1387
leara1400
hirselc1480
professiona1513
congregation1526
communion1553
schism1555
segregation1563
sex1583
hortus conclususa1631
confessiona1641
dispensation1643
sectary1651
churchship1675
cult1679
persuasion1732
denomination1746–7
connection1753
covenant1818
sectarism1821
organized religion1843
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided
dealinga1300
divisionc1374
partc1392
spacec1392
long divisionc1400
severingc1400
skyvaldc1400
foddinga1425
panelc1450
partition1561
roomstead1600
canton1601
separation1604
share1643
scissurea1667
cutting1726
departmenta1735
segment1762
compartment1793
distribution1829
segregation1859
dept.1869
section1875
tmema1891
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 98 Ȝe dissent fra the..haly Kirk vniuersall, and als fra the segregatioun of all heretikis afoir ȝow.
1605 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 372 The schismatick uniting himselfe unto their congregations, or rather, as this Sainct sayeth, unto their segregations.
1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) xix. 493 Veinstones or original segregations of gold.
1869 F. Galton Hered. Genius 376 We must..consider each human or other personality..as a segregation of what already existed.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 146 Number of feet in claim is 600, being a segregation of the north end of the Ophir Mine.
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