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STRATIFY

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Irregular inflected form: stratified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand

Example:

stratify seeds

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

fecundate; fertilise; fertilize; inseminate (introduce semen into (a female))

Verb group:

stratify (form, arrange, or deposit in layers)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form layers or strata

Example:

The rock stratifies

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Verb group:

stratify (form, arrange, or deposit in layers)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (forming or depositing in layers)

stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Form, arrange, or deposit in layers

Example:

A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Verb group:

stratify (render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand)

stratify (form layers or strata)

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

interstratify (arrange rocks in alternating strata)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (forming or depositing in layers)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Divide society into social classes or castes

Example:

Income distribution often stratifies a society

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart (mark as different)

Verb group:

stratify (develop different social levels, classes, or castes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata)

stratification (the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group)

stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Sense 5

Meaning:

Develop different social levels, classes, or castes

Example:

Society stratifies when the income gap widens

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

stratify (divide society into social classes or castes)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

stratification (the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata)

stratification (the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group)

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 Context examples: 

Cell nuclei are elongated, crowded, appear stratified and basally located with regular nuclear membranes, fine chromatin, and inconspicuous nucleoli.

(Low Grade Flat Tubular Dysplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

EXAMPLE(S): adaptive, blocked, stratified, allocation based on past response.

(Defined Experimental Unit Allocation Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A stratified columnar epithelial cell that surrounds a lumen in a gland such as the breast, pancreas or prostate.

(Ductal Epithelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-neoplastic keratinizing mass with stratified squamous epithelium, frequently occurring in the meninges, central nervous system, bones of the skull, and most commonly in the middle ear and mastoid region.

(Cholesteatoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The varied epithelium of the cervix; which is composed of nonkeratinized stratified squamous cells distally, and simple columnar cells proximally.

(Cervix Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)

Stratified squamous epithelium that covers the outer surface of the cornea.

(Corneal Epithelium, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Endothelium) or stratified (e.g.

(Murine Squamous Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)

The rise and application of ‘big data’ in healthcare, assessing and analysing detailed, large-scale datasets makes it increasingly feasible to make predictions about health and disease outcomes and enable stratified approaches to prevention and clinical management.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

EXAMPLE(S): A Probability Sample: exclusively random process to guarantee that each participant or population has specified chance of selection, such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratified random sampling, cluster sampling, and consecutive patient sampling.

(Observational Study Protocol Version Sampling Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A transparent homogeneous acellular layer, 6 to 9 um thick, lying between the basal lamina of the outer layer of stratified epithelium and the substantia propria of the cornea; it is considered to be a basement membrane.

(Bowman's Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)