Definition of Categorize

1. Verb. Place into or assign to a category. "Children learn early on to categorize"

Exact synonyms: Categorise
Generic synonyms: Reason
Entails: Compare
Specialized synonyms: Assort, Class, Classify, Separate, Sort, Sort Out
Derivative terms: Categorization, Categorization, Categorization, Category, Category

Definition of Categorize

1. v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Definition of Categorize

1. Verb. (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Categorize

1. [v -RIZED, -RIZING, -RIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Categorize

categorifying
categorisable
categorisation
categorisations
categorise
categorised
categoriser
categorisers
categorises
categorising
categorist
categorists
categorizable
categorization
categorizations
categorize (current term)
categorized
categorizer
categorizers
categorizes
categorizing
category
category killer
category killers
category mistake
category mistakes
category theory
categoryless
catel
catelectrode

Literary usage of Categorize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Under Cover: Evolution of Upholstered Furniture by Ed van Hinte (2006)
"This difference may well have been the seed for the split around 1950, because practically all current designers of chair images - let us roughly categorize ..."

2. Hands-On Thinking Activities: Centers Through the Year Grades 1-3 by Jo Ellen Moore (2001)
"... Student Task Students categorize cookies on a Venn diagram. Materials • pencils • page 190, reproduced for each student • center sign on page 191 Steps ..."

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