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Segregate vs Congregate - What's the difference?

segregate | congregate |

As adjectives the difference between segregate and congregate

is that segregate is separate; select while congregate is collective; assembled; compact.

As verbs the difference between segregate and congregate

is that segregate is to separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart while congregate is : To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.

segregate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Separate; select.
  • (botany) Separated from others of the same kind.
  • Verb

    (segregat)
  • To separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart.
  • Synonyms

    * isolate * separate * sequester * sunder out

    Antonyms

    * aggregate

    Anagrams

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    congregate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
  • * 1605 , (Francis Bacon), The Advancement of Learning , Book II, Chapter IX:
  • With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.

    Verb

    (congregat)
  • (transitive): To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
  • * Hooker,
  • Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
  • * Coleridge,
  • Cold congregates all bodies.
  • * Milton,
  • The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
  • (intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.
  • * ,
  • Even there where merchants most do congregate .

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