Definition of Discriminate

Discriminate

Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.

To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.

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.

To treat unequally.

To impose unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.

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Discriminate Quotations

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
Ryan Gosling

I try not to discriminate against genres.
Ryan Gosling

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Friedrich Schiller

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
King Hussein I

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
Jim Wallis

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Walter Pater

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.
Allyson Schwartz

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
Arthur Keith

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
Matthew Lesko

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
Birch Bayh

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!
Lea DeLaria

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Discriminate Translations

discriminate in German is benachteilige, unterscheiden, benachteilige
discriminate in Norwegian is diskriminere
discriminate in Spanish is distinguir, discriminar

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