Confine vs Segregate - What's the difference?
confine | segregate | Related terms |
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
To separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.
Confine is a related term of segregate.
As adjectives the difference between confine and segregate
is that confine is stale while segregate is separate; select.As a verb segregate is
to separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.confine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
