Discriminate vs Signalize - What's the difference?
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To make distinctions.
To make decisions based on prejudice.
To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
* Barrow
Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.
* Burke
To communicate with by means of a signal.
(humorous, or, nonstandard) To make something noticeable, different, remarkable or conspicuous, especially by gesticulation.
(nonstandard) To signal; to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal.
* Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
(nonstandard) To install a traffic signal at an intersection that is currently regulated by stop signs.
In transitive terms the difference between discriminate and signalize
is that discriminate is to set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish while signalize is to communicate with by means of a signal.As verbs the difference between discriminate and signalize
is that discriminate is to make distinctions while signalize is to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common.As an adjective discriminate
is having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.discriminate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Since he was colorblind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.
- The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.
- (Cowper)
- To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
Usage notes
Due to the strong pejorative connotations of sense of “decide based on prejudice”, care should be taken in using the term in the sense “distinguish, make distinctions”, and this sense is primarily used in formal discourse; synonyms are generally used instead.Synonyms
(make distinctions) * distinguish * differentiateDerived terms
* discriminative * discriminatoryAdjective
(en adjective)- (Francis Bacon)
External links
* * ----signalize
English
Verb
- It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves.
- a ship signalizes its consort
- to signalize the arrival of a steamer
- And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment
