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CATEGORIZE

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 "categorize" is one way to...):

reason (think logically)

"Categorize" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

categorization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

categorization (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)

categorization (a group of people or things arranged by class or category)

category (a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme)

category (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

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 Context examples: 

When Scheuerman, a male with long hair, submitted his picture, half categorized him as female.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

Max Riesenhuber's group at Georgetown University had previously studied how the brain categorizes visual objects and found that at least two distinct regions of the brain were involved.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

Participants were categorized into 3 groups based on the percent of self-reported calorie intake that came from protein: high (20% or more), moderate (10-19%), or low (less than 10%).

(Protein Consumption Linked to Longevity, NIH)

Fourteen of these sources are such strong emitters of X-rays that astronomers categorize them as “ultra-luminous X-ray sources,” or ULXs.

(Chandra Samples Galactic Goulash, NASA)

A finding associated with a patient based on the functional classification developed by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS), for categorizing patients with angina.

(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class, NCI Thesaurus)

Although asteroid 2002 AJ129 is categorized as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA), it does not pose an actual threat of colliding with our planet for the foreseeable future.

(Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4, NASA)

A convention for categorizing the physiological properties of a fatty acid by indicating the location of its double bond as counted from the terminal methyl carbon (designated as x or omega) (e.g., omega-6 fatty acid).

(n-x Nomenclature, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, researchers have discovered that the brain categorizes sounds in much the same way.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

With a brief glance, facial recognition software can categorize gender with remarkable accuracy.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

Previous research has revealed how the brain categorizes images.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)