discriminate
verbEtymology
First attested in 1615; borrowed from Latin discrīminātus, perfect passive participle of discrīminō (“to divide, separate, distinguish”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from discrīmen (“a space between, division, separation, distinction”), from discernō (“to divide, separate, distinguish, discern”).
- borrowed from discrīminātus
Definitions
To make distinctions.
- Since he was color blind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.
To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.
- Low self-esteem can affect both rich and poor people: it doesn't discriminate.
To set apart as being different
To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
- To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
- Still stranger much, that when at length mankind Had reach'd the sinewy firmness of their youth, And could discriminate and argue well On subjects more mysterious
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Having its differences marked
Having its differences marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
- Nevertheless it is certain, that oisters, and cockles, and mussels, which move not, have no discriminate sex
The neighborhood
- synonymdifferentiate
- synonymtell apart
- antonymfavorantonym(s) of “make decisions based on prejudice”
- neighborcrime
- neighbordiscern
- neighbordiscreet
- neighbordiscrete
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at discriminate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at discriminate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at discriminate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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