discriminate
pronunciation
How to pronounce discriminate in British English:
UK [dɪˈskrɪmɪneɪt]
How to pronounce discriminate in American English:
US [dɪˈskrɪmɪneɪt]
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- Verb:
- recognize or perceive the difference
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- distinguish
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- Adjective:
- marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions
- noting distinctions with nicety
Word Origin
- discriminate
- discriminate: see discern
- discriminate (v.)
- 1620s, from Latin discriminatus, past participle of discriminare "to divide, separate," from discrimen (genitive discriminis) "interval, distinction, difference," derived noun from discernere (see discern). The adverse (usually racial) sense is first recorded 1866, American English. Positive sense remains in discriminating. Related: Discriminated. Also used 17c. and after as an adjective meaning "distinct."
Synonym
Example
- 1. Isps cannot discriminate against any service in an anti-competitive way .
- 2. Subsidy programmes that discriminate between local and foreign producers invite wto litigation .
- 3. Rosen 's lab hopes to target arsenic by engineering aquaglyceroporins to discriminate between metalloids .
- 4. But after 11 months infants settle down with one set of phonemes for their first language , and lose the ability to discriminate the phonemes from other languages .
- 5. Its object is not to make people weigh and discriminate , but to champion one particular idea .