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CLASSIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: classified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange or order by classes or categories

Example:

How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?

Synonyms:

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

categorise; categorize (place into or assign to a category)

"Classify" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

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

unitise; unitize (separate or classify into units)

catalog; catalogue (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

isolate (separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them)

refer (think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another)

reclassify (classify anew, change the previous classification)

size (sort according to size)

dichotomise; dichotomize (divide into two opposing groups or kinds)

pigeonhole; stamp; stereotype (treat or classify according to a mental stereotype)

group (arrange into a group or groups)

grade (determine the grade of or assign a grade to)

count; number (put into a group)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

class (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

class (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

class (a league ranked by quality)

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

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

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

classificatory (relating to or involving classification)

classifier (a person who creates classifications)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Assign to a class or kind

Example:

People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms

Synonyms:

classify; relegate

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

assign; attribute (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

classifier (a person who creates classifications)

classifier (a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs)

classificatory (relating to or involving classification)

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

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

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

class (a league ranked by quality)

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

class (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

class (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Declare unavailable, as for security reasons

Example:

Classify these documents

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

control; restrict (place under restrictions; limit access to by law)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue classify the movie

Antonym:

declassify (lift the restriction on and make available again)

Derivation:

classification (restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people)

Credits

 Context examples: 

According to the type of blasts present, acute leukemias are classified as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and precursor lymphoblastic or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

(Acute leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

With this approach, the team was able to classify a previously unidentified material discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in the moon’s smoggy haze.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

It includes entities classified according to the French-American-British classification scheme.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by the acute loss of renal function and is traditionally classified as pre-renal (low blood flow into kidney), renal (kidney damage) and post-renal causes (ureteral or bladder outflow obstruction).

(Acute Renal Failure, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Most cases are morphologically classified as lymphocyte depleted or mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphomas.

(AIDS-Related Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Squamous cell carcinomas that affect or cross the junction of the stomach and esophagus are classified as carcinomas of the distal esophagus.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, adenocarcinomas are classified according to the growth pattern (e.g., papillary, alveolar) or according to the secreting product (e.g., mucinous, serous).

(Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the growth pattern, it is classified as tubular, papillary, or tubulopapillary.

(Bile Duct Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Monoclonal antibody 3A1 is used to diagnose and classify T cell malignancies.

(Monoclonal Antibody 3A1, NCI Thesaurus)

It is broadly classified as a personality change due to a general medical condition.

(Organic Personality Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)