discriminate

Etymology
From, past participle of , from , from ; see discern, discreet, discrete. Compare crime.

Pronunciation




Verb

 * 1)  To make distinctions.
 * 2) To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.
 * 3)  To make decisions based on prejudice.
 * 4)  To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
 * 1)  To make decisions based on prejudice.
 * 2)  To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
 * 1)  To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.

Usage notes

 * Due to the strong pejorative connotations of sense of “decide based on prejudice”, care should be taken in using the term in the sense “distinguish, make distinctions”, and this sense is primarily used in formal discourse; synonyms are generally used instead. On the other hand, the adjectives discriminate and indiscriminate are solely used to refer to being distinguished or marked by being different.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:tell apart

Translations

 * Arabic: مَيَّزَ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish:, sondre
 * Finnish: huomata ero, tehdä ero
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Nepali: छुट्ट्याउनु
 * Norman: discriminner
 * Sanskrit: वेवेक्ति
 * Swedish:


 * Asturian: discriminar
 * Belarusian: дыскрымінава́ць
 * Bulgarian: дискриминирам
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:, forskelsbehandle
 * Finnish:, diskriminoida
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latvian: diskriminēt
 * Maori: whakapai kanohi, whakaparahako
 * Norman: discriminner
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: เลือกปฏิบัติ
 * Ukrainian: дискримінува́ти
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: דיסקרימינירן

Adjective

 * 1) Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: