different between stowage vs segregation

English

Etymology

stow +? -age

Noun

stowage (countable and uncountable, plural stowages)

1. The act or practice of stowing.

   the stowage of cargo

2. A place where things are stowed.

   Accommodations were so poor I think we were in stowage, with the rest of the cargo.

3. Things that are stowed.

   Our stowage disappeared down the chute, into the employee only cargo area, never to be seen again by man.

4. Amount of room for storing things.

   The reduction in the ship's size naturally reduced her stowage.

5. A charge for stowing and storage.

   We'll have to pay the stowage if we want our crate back.

Translations

Anagrams

• towages

English

Etymology

1555. From Latin segregatio.Morphologically segregate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??????e????n/

Noun

segregation (countable and uncountable, plural segregations)

1. The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
2. (biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
3. (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
4. (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
5. (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
6. (genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis

Synonyms

• apartheid

Antonyms

• desegregation

Derived terms

• segregationist
• segregation distorter

Related terms

• segregate
• segregative
• segregator

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Saint George

Danish

Noun

segregation

1. (sociology) segregation (of cultures)

Coordinate terms

• assimilation, pluralistisk integration