Select , separate between things with different values. By the influence of English, discriminate is used as an outcast for reasons deemed illegal or immoral. It comes from the Latin discriminare ( "distinguish, notice or make a division" ) , formed by dis ( "separation") crime ( "what is seen as missing or offending" ) , but as a derivative of screen ("colar, cribar, separate the useful from the useless" ) . See incriminating .