Verb: single out sing-gul awt
- Select from a group
"She was singled out for her outstanding performance"
- Treat differently on the basis of factors such as sex, race, age, etc.
"The policy singled out minority students for additional support";
- discriminate, separate
Derived forms: singles out, singling out, singled out
Type of: choose, differentiate, distinguish, pick out, secern [rare], select, separate, severalise [Brit, rare], severalize [rare], take, tell apart