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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
categorize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ Both payments and revenues should be described in detail and categorized as one-off or on-going.
▪ Home banking services are often categorized as basic, intermediate, and advanced.
▪ More than half the total number were categorized as educationally subnormal.
▪ The Soviet Union could not be easily categorized as either presidential or parliamentary.
▪ All the credit arrangements mentioned above are categorized as restricted-use credit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dali was categorized as a surrealist painter.
▪ Forecasts suggest that by the year 2010, only about 30 percent of U.S. households will be categorized as middle class.
▪ How would you categorize your relationship with your parents?
▪ The hotels are categorized according to the standard of the rooms and services they offer.
▪ The store categorizes records from Asia and Africa as 'World Music'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Emotions seem to create the ideas which are then categorized.
▪ Language, invented sometime in the last few million years, involves some really fancy abilities for categorizing sounds.
▪ Nouvel's work is difficult to categorize.
▪ The remainder of the population was strictly categorized into four groups.
▪ The tendency to categorize black sportsmen and women differently from the rest is faintly racist and, I believe, totally unnecessary.
▪ These volumes contain poetry which may be categorized generally as a poetry of attitudes, the attitudes being both literary and vital.
▪ We shall categorize the explanations which result as being in different modes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Categorize

Categorize \Cat"e*go*rize\, v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
categorize

1705, from category + -ize. Related: Categorized; categorizing.

Wiktionary
categorize

alt. (context transitive English) To assign a category; to divide into classes. vb. (context transitive English) To assign a category; to divide into classes.

WordNet
categorize

v. place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" [syn: categorise]

Usage examples of "categorize".

These two forms of fracture give rise to two series of endeavours which a certain striving towards universality would seem to categorize as echoes of the Cartesian or Leibnizian undertakings.

All these people who sell us information are like that They categorize it, and husband it, and let it go only grudgingly, as a philatelist disposes of bits of his collection, and tries to get rid of the dud stamps first.

Lyndon Gray was a tall brunette with the shoulders of a linebacker and the watchful gaze of a jungle cat, his eyes darting back and forth as he took in his surroundings, memorizing, categorizing.

He calculated the ratio of fresh to prepared food that Becky brought home, and they discussed how to categorize fresh-frozen vegetables.

That is, the subject attempted to categorize, describe, and explain itself in objective terms, in it-language.

It was such a highly organized delusion that, despite my initial impulse to categorize it as paranoid, I made no attempt to recommend hospitalization.

Soaking up her feelings, he had categorized them each and every one, sorting them like cards.

The police tended to categorize all teenagers as one type, so they would react the same way to Audra's mother's call.

Don Juan suggested that spontaneous states of non-ordinary reality occurred under unique conditions, and he categorized them as gifts from or bestowals by the power contained in the plant.

Don Juan categorized the ally contained in Datura inoxia as having two qualities: it was woman-like, and it was a giver of superfluous power.

Satellites in orbit noted the explosion and computers on the ground automatically categorized it as a nuclear explosion.

And now, just because she had been nasty with him on the phone and never acknowledged his last invitation to meet today, he had categorized her as less desirable or less deserving.

The question had been asked, he felt ready, and so he stepped off the edge of a social cliff, saying things he knew could get him categorized as a kook.

On Earth they had never completely categorized the ecosystem, and they had millennia.

None of the extrasensory abilities can be neatly categorized, because capability varies from person to per­son, just like reading ability.