classify

Verb

Meaning

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rank sort class group order separate file index label organize catalogue arrange designate catalog characterize
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Antonyms

declassify break block disorder chaos disrupt
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Hypernyms

control attribute restrict assign categorize categorise

Hyponyms

number group size refer count grade

Derivatives

classified classifying

Examples

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. J. Philippe Rushton

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. Carlos Fuentes

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. Larry Wall

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres. Pedro Almodóvar

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values. Kenneth Boulding

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. Elias Canetti

Close letter words and terms

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