segregator

[ seg-ri-gey-ter ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. an instrument for collecting the urine excreted by one kidney only.

Word History and Origins

Origin of segregator¹

First recorded in 1900–05; segregate + -or ²

Example Sentences

Only now could the president see “that segregation was morally wrong and . . . did something to the souls of both the segregator and the segregated.”

From Reuters

Segregation, it concluded, was “robbing not only the segregated but the segregator of his human dignity.”

From The New Yorker

School segregators, ethnic cleansers and people who blow up houses of worship don’t think in those terms consciously, but the primitive impulse is at least part of what’s behind the us-versus-them atrocities they commit.

From Time

First of all, there are NO immortal runners so that “key segregator” that is the fundamental premise of this article extrudes not so much saliva as BS.

From New York Times

“Mental tenacity — and the ability to manage and even thrive on and push through pain — is a key segregator between the mortals and immortals in running,” Ms. Wittenberg said.

From New York Times