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CATEGORISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place into or assign to a category

Example:

Children learn early on to categorize

Synonyms:

categorise; categorize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "categorise" is one way to...):

reason (think logically)

"Categorise" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "categorise"):

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out (arrange or order by classes or categories)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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