To make distinctions.
Since he was color blind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.
To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.
Low self-esteem can affect both rich and poor people: it doesn't discriminate.
To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
Having its differences marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
Nevertheless it is certain, that oisters, and cockles, and mussels, which move not, have no discriminate sex
First attested in 1615; borrowed from Latin discrīminātus, perfect passive participle of discrīminō (“to divide, separate, distinguish”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suf...
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