discriminate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪsˈkɹɪmɪneɪt/
discriminate (discriminates, present participle discriminating; past and past participle discriminated)
- (intransitive) To make distinctions.
- Since he was colorblind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.
- (intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions based on prejudice.
- The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.
- (transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
- ” —Revelation 21:8 (RSV)Barrow}}
- To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
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- (make distinctions) distinguish, differentiate; see also Thesaurus:tell apart
- (make decisions based on prejudice) disfavor
- (make decisions based on prejudice) favor
- French: discriminer
- French: discriminer
- German: diskriminieren
- Russian: дискриминировать
- Spanish: discriminar
discriminate
- Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
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