segregate
SEG-rih-gaytverbMeaning to set apart from the rest; to keep separate
Memory hook a SEParate GATE, apart from the flock. The farmer leads the coughing lamb through a separate gate into its own pen until it is well; to keep it apart from the flock is to segregate it.
At the recycling center, workers segregate glass from paper and plastic.
In context To keep the cough from spreading, the farmer had to segregate the sick lambs, moving them to a pen far from the healthy flock until they recovered.
Similar separate, set apart, isolate, sort
Opposite integrate, combine, unite
From Latin segregare, “to set apart from the flock”: se- (apart) + grex (flock).