Discriminate
[dɪ'skrɪmɪneɪt] or [dɪ'skrɪmɪnet]
Definition
(verb.) recognize or perceive the difference.
(verb.) distinguish; 'I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish'.
(verb.) treat differently on the basis of sex or race.
(adj.) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; 'discriminate judgments'; 'discriminate people' .
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Definition
(a.) Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
(v. t.) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
(v. i.) To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.
(v. i.) To treat unequally.
(v. i.) To impose unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Distinguish, mark the difference between.
v. n. Distinguish, make a distinction, note differences, judge nicely or accurately.
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Definition
v.t. to note the difference: to distinguish: to select from others.—v.i. to make a difference or distinction: to distinguish.—adv. Discrim′inately.—p.adj. Discrim′inating noting distinctions: gifted with judgment and penetration.—adv. Discrim′inatingly.—n. Discriminā′tion act or quality of distinguishing: acuteness: discernment judgment.—adj. Discrim′inative that marks a difference: characteristic: observing distinctions.—adv. Discrim′inatively.—n. Discrim′inātor.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is if possible more objectionable than another.
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Examples
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And yet even here we may discriminate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Strangers don't discriminate: how should they? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Suffice it, that you are not here qualified to discriminate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was a thistle which pricked him vividly, but not too much, because all his movements were too discriminate and soft. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But it is indispensable to discriminate between genuine and simulated or mock problems. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The activities mentioned in Chapter XV contain within themselves the factors later discriminated into fine and useful arts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Resolved, as your discriminating good sense perceives, that if you was to have a sap--pur--IZE, it should be a complete one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am sure that though Graham stood aloof, he listened too: his hearing as well as his vision was very fine, quick, discriminating. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Few, Shirley conceived, men or women have the right taste in poetry, the right sense for discriminating between what is real and what is false. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Mexicans were not so discriminating. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In reference to the last (volcanic ash combined with lime and r ubble to form a cement) Vitruvius writes in a way that indicates a discriminating knowledge of geological formations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Knowledge results if the mind discriminates and combines things as they are united and divided in nature itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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