discriminate

[dɪˈskrɪmɪneɪt]

Definition:
1. Recognize or perceive the difference.
2. Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.
3. Distinguish.
4. Marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions.
5. Noting distinctions with nicety.

Use 'discriminate' in a sentence:

1. He believes he has been discriminated against because of his sexuality.
2. The law does not discriminate against the poor in favour of the rich.
3. He simply doesn't discriminate when it comes to the newness of tools.
4. The human body doesn't discriminate between a big stressful event and a little one.
5. The ability to design different services enables producers to discriminate price with regard to buyer tastes, potentially enabling greater revenue recovery.
6. No law in China contains clauses that discriminate against women.
7. The device can discriminate between the cancerous and the normal cells.
8. Due caution should be exercised in discriminating between the two.
9. That suggests that when the hiring is done by the company where the job candidate will work, the people doing the hiring appear to strongly discriminate against attractive women.
10. She points to a 2004 study, for example, in which she and colleagues found no evidence that humans could discriminate between acetophenone and deuterated acetophenone.
11. It is unjust and unlawful to discriminate against people of other races.
12. Let us also look within and re-evaluate our attitudes and those of our societies so we can remove the prejudices that discriminate against persons with disabilities.
13. I'll turn now from meaninglessness to another ultimate concerns: Existential isolation. First we need to discriminate between the several USES of isolation in our profession.
14. Three groups discriminated by risk attitude are risk averter, risk balancer and risk lover.
15. Hotels can price discriminate between those customers who are sensitive to service characteristics and those who are not and profit from such discrimination.
16. Agrillo's team also found that mosquitofish can discriminate between Numbers up to 16, but only if the ratio between the fish in each shoal was greater than 2:1.
17. How can he discriminate the real painting from the false one?
18. He discriminated in favour of some of his friends.
19. Many businesses are accused of discriminating against women.
20. It is unfair to discriminate between black people and white people.
21. A teacher must not discriminate between pupils.
22. He is incapable of discriminating between a good idea and a terrible one.
23. "They seem to be able to discriminiate between different shapes, which might even mean they discriminate between different species of fish," he told BBC News.
24. They believe the law discriminates against women.
25. It is illegal to discriminate against HIV carriers, but to emphasise the point Berbatov and Carrick take part in a game where each teenager has a sticker placed on their forehead.
26. They can discriminate hundreds of colors.
27. The two brothers are so much alike, it is difficult to discriminate one from the other.
28. Discriminate transfer expense allocation to promote its functions effect. 4.
29. Women complain that employers discriminate against female workers when calculating their rank and pay.
30. And also just from the pharmaceutical industry's point of view of breaking down of national barriers to their ability to price discriminate across different geographies.
31. The lesson for the EU, thus, is not that expansion should stop, but that it needs to discriminate between those countries that are ready for membership and those that aren’t.
32. Aren't the vegans being contradictory when of the two life forms inferior to man they discriminate against plants and claim in the meantime that animals be equal with mankind?
33. More discriminating visitors now tend to shun the area.
34. The tests discriminate unfairly against older people.
35. Only a trained eye can discriminate between the two paintings.
36. In a statement, the company told the BBC it didn't discriminate against women, but that the firm was going through a bad time, and that the area worst affected was where women worked.
37. The within pointcut is similar to this(), except that ajc detects it entirely at compile time (most pointcuts can discriminate based on run-time information).
38. It is not permissible for employers to discriminate on grounds of age.
39. The Commission for Racial Equality teaches organisations not to discriminate.
40. Agrillo's team found that mosquitofish can discriminate between numbers up to 16, but only if the ratio between the fish in each shoal was greater than 2:1.
41. The computer program was unable to discriminate between letters and numbers.
42. Prior to being spoon-fed number words, children can only approximately discriminate quantities beyond three.
43. It is illegal to discriminate on grounds of race, sex or religion.
44. That person who violates the law and discriminates should suffer in his career.
45. When do babies learn to discriminate voices?
46. Employers cannot discriminate on grounds of age.
47. A number of features discriminate this species from others.
48. Each of the preceding techniques provides the researcher with evidence that the infant can detector discriminate between stimuli.
49. Each of the preceding techniques provides the researcher with evidence that the infant can detect or discriminate between stimuli.
50. It was alleged that the restaurant discriminated against black customers.