single out

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	single out - select from a group; "She was singled out for her outstanding performance" choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
	2.	single out - treat differently on the basis of sex or race discriminate, separate isolate, insulate - place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" hive off - remove from a group and make separate; "The unit was hived off from its parent company" segregate - separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" redline - discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour - put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me"

Translations

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vt sep (= choose) → auswählen; victim, prey → sich (dat) → herausgreifen; (= distinguish, set apart) → herausheben (→ from über +acc); to single somebody out for special attention → jdm besondere Aufmerksamkeit zuteilwerden lassen; you couldn’t single any one pupil out as the best → es wäre unmöglich, einen einzelnen Schüler als den besten hinzustellen