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    dis·crim·i·nate
    [dəˈskriməˌnāt]
    verb
    discriminate (verb) · discriminates (third person present) · discriminated (past tense) · discriminated (past participle) · discriminating (present participle)
    1. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age, or disability:
      "existing employment policies discriminate against women"
    2. recognize a distinction; differentiate:
      "babies can discriminate between different facial expressions of emotion"
      • perceive or constitute the difference in or between:
        "features that discriminate this species from other gastropods" · "bats can discriminate a difference in echo delay of between 69 and 98 millionths of a second"
    Origin
    early 17th century: from Latin discriminat- ‘distinguished between’, from the verb discriminare, from discrimen ‘distinction’, from the verb discernere (see discern).
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    verb
    1. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age, or disability:
      disfavor
      victimize
      be biased
      show prejudice
      be prejudiced
      treat differently
      treat as inferior
      treat unfairly
      put at a disadvantage
      be intolerant toward
    2. recognize a distinction; differentiate:
      differentiate
      distinguish
      separate
      tell apart
      separate the sheep from the goats
      separate the wheat from the chaff
      draw/recognize a distinction
      tell the difference
      discern a difference
       
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      If you can discriminate between two things, you can recognize that they are different. 2. To discriminate against a group of people or in favour of a group of people means to unfairly treat them worse or better than other groups.

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