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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
classify
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ These can roughly be classified as coming from work, hobbies and pastimes.
▪ Sleazy and tedious, the film would need to improve a few rungs to be classified as merely dreadful.
▪ This lawyer was therefore classified as professionally marginal, in a structural rather than an attitudinal sense.
▪ It was classified as high security, and there were more guards than engineers working in the compound.
▪ They were classified as successes of treatment as subsequent radiological examination had been normal.
▪ Obviously waves may have frequencies of intermediate magnitude and so be difficult to classify as either destructive or constructive.
▪ He has paid a terrible price for conduct that I am not sufficiently censorious to classify as wrong, bad or wicked.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ Are you satisfied with your initial attempt to classify the political systems above?
category
▪ Its profits will depend on the action chosen and the state of the market, which it has classified into four categories.
▪ Punctuation marks are classified as separate syntactic categories and grammars and transition matrices based around this assumption.
▪ When this point is reached, the patient is classified into a different category, for which therapy is clearly indicated.
▪ It is more interesting to classify strategies according to certain categories, and examine the success of these broader divisions.
function
▪ How, then, should a court confronted with the issue go about classifying a function as public or not?
▪ State organizations can be classified according to which function is furthered by their budgets.
▪ Many studies have aimed at typologies of code switching which classify switches according to their function in discourse.
▪ Powers and Duties Another way of classifying reviewable functions is into the categories of powers and duties.
▪ Streets. from sub-arterial to local should be classified according to function.
▪ Functional courses which classify discourse by function alone often overlook this complex interaction.
group
▪ Can we use a shape difference measure to classify the axes into groups of similar types on the basis of their shapes?
▪ Tremor, involuntary trembling or quivering in an approximately periodic manner, can be roughly classified into two groups { 27 }.
▪ In fact, the state has classified the group as the top security threat in Arizona prisons.
▪ On the basis of their canonical nucleotide sequences they can be classified as group I introns.
▪ They were classified into two distinct groups, those who gained entry through traditional methods and those who had not.
▪ The males could be classified into dialect groups.
information
▪ A girl classified the information coming in and entered it up on file cards.
▪ Its name is no longer classified information, but virtually all other details concerning the agency continue to be.
▪ But Commerce Department officials said that did not entitle him to see any classified information, and they maintain he saw none.
▪ This was the National Reconnaissance Office, an organization so secret that even today its very name is considered classified information.
▪ A 10-year life span for classified information, unless an agency specifies that the information must have continued secrecy.
▪ So far, there is evidence only that Huang had authorized access to classified information and the opportunity to pass it on.
▪ It cost government and defense contractors $ 5. 6 billion in 1995 to protect classified national security information.
number
▪ They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull.
▪ Party systems are generally classified according to the number of political parties and the interactions among the parties in the governing process.
▪ Taxes may be classified in a number of different ways.
▪ The analysis for Developmental Sentence Types involves classifying each utterance in respect of number of words and grammatical category.
▪ Each sentence was classified according to a number of textual features which might increase the amount of time required to read it.
patient
▪ We can now classify patients as having good or bad glycaemic control.
▪ We classified our patients in three groups.
▪ It is helpful to classify patients with Type 2 diabetes into obese and non-obese.
species
▪ What is required is an explication of the principle under which they both can be classified under the same species of item.
system
▪ Several workers have devised systems of classifying either habitat or vegetation for one or both regions.
▪ A basic task in political analysis is to determine whether there are some criteria by which political systems can be classified.
▪ A basic information system merely classifies and stores data.
▪ Party systems are generally classified according to the number of political parties and the interactions among the parties in the governing process.
▪ Some political systems are probably best classified on a continuum between totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
type
▪ It is helpful to classify patients with Type 2 diabetes into obese and non-obese.
▪ Plant and machinery: The plant and machinery owned by the business can be broadly classified into three types as follows.
▪ Therefore we may classify the various types of expenditure as in Figure 10.2.
▪ According to the description by Reznikoff etal three types of transformed cells were classified.
▪ These have been classified into two main types.
■ VERB
use
▪ The four degree score of Binder was used to classify clinical and endoscopic findings.
▪ You can also find used scooters in the classified ads and Web pages run by Vespa clubs.
▪ It is the shape of the hip bones, rather than other anatomical differences, that are used to classify dinosaurs.
▪ The body mass index is the most commonly used method for classifying obesity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Babies walking later than 18 months were classified as slow walkers.
▪ Carpentry and furniture making are usually classified as skilled trades.
▪ Eggs are classified by weight as Extra Large, Large, Medium, Small, and Peewee.
▪ Scientists have discovered a new type of butterfly which has not yet been classified.
▪ The military has classified the results of the weapons test.
▪ Wines can be classified according to their sugar content - that is dry, medium or sweet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the purposes of the discriminate analysis tissues were classified as showing no reactivity versus any reactivity.
▪ How, then, I wonder, might we thus, sociologically, classify Bourdieu?
▪ The first step has been to start classifying the problems.
▪ The stations on the Trans-Siberian were classified according to size and amenity into five categories.
▪ They can be classified into two types: in-store strategies and advertising and promotions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Classify

Classify \Clas"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classified; p. pr. & vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + -fy.] To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

Syn: To arrange; distribute; rank. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
classify

1782, from French classifier, from classe (see class (n.)) + -fier (see -fy). Related: Classified; classifying.

Wiktionary
classify

vb. 1 to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize 2 to declare something a secret, especially a government secret

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classify

  1. v. arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: class, sort, assort, sort out, separate]

  2. declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents" [ant: declassify]

  3. assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn: relegate]

  4. [also: classified]

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Usage examples of "classify".

Black cardamom has been variously classified as Zmgiber nigrum, Alpinia allughas, and, sometimes, Amomurn amarum.

For descriptive purposes, we use the terms internal and external to classify the behavioral indicators.

His contemporary, Berengar of Carpi, professor at Bologna, first did this with marked success, classifying the various tissues as fat, membrane, flesh, nerve, fibre and so forth.

When the French explorers entered it, it was a valley of aboriginal, anarchic individualism, with little movable spots of barbaric communistic timocracy, as Plato would doubtless have classified those migratory, predatory kingdoms of the hundreds of red kings, contemporary with King Donnacona, whom Cartier found on the St.

Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations.

As Darwin had studied and classified the Cirripedia, so would he write an essay on Rhizopods.

Certain other facts, however -- for example, that a cumulus or cirrostratus cloud floated over the scene of the crime on the day of a particular homicide, or that the telephone wires in front of the house where the crime took place are made of aluminum or copper -- can be classified as nonessential.

McCone, a Baptist, told me to classify myself as a Congregationalist, which I did.

However, at each level, once the security had been breached for whatever reason -even by design - part of the secret was disclosed through declassification while the rest was dragged into a new classified project or moved to an existing one that had not been compromised.

Treaty of Wolf 359 appeared to be classified, it was becoming apparent to him that technology exchanges were at its core.

In Table 5, imports of Italian hats at the port of New York in the six months January-June, 1924, have been classified according to foreign values shown on consular invoices.

The imports at the port of New York of hats from England are classified in Table 7.

Chimps, gorillas, and orangutans are classified as members of the Pongidae family, while humans are the only existing members of the Hominidae family.

Tests as prescribed in the accompanying table for such inks will serve to classify them preliminary to subsequent and more certain ones.

In order to substitute for the absence of the father, Jaromil engages in a game of multiple mirrors: not only does he write the poems, he also interprets and classifies them, and reflects on the reflection.