Lexic.us

Definition of Stratify

1. Verb. Divide society into social classes or castes. "Income distribution often stratifies a society"

2. Verb. Form layers or strata. "The rock stratifies"

3. Verb. Develop different social levels, classes, or castes. "Society stratifies when the income gap widens"

4. Verb. Form, arrange, or deposit in layers. "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses"

5. Verb. Render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand. "Stratify seeds"

Definition of Stratify

1. v. t. To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

Definition of Stratify

1. Verb. (intransitive) To become separated out into distinct layers or strata. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To separate out into distinct layers or strata. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stratify

1. to form or arrange in layers [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stratify

strathspey strathspeys strati stratic straticulate stratification stratifications stratified stratified columnar epithelia stratified columnar epithelium

stratified language stratified sample stratified sampling stratifies stratiform stratify (current term) stratifying stratigrapher stratigraphers stratigraphic

stratigraphical stratigraphically stratigraphies stratigraphist stratigraphists stratigraphy stratimetry strato- stratoanalysis stratocracies

Literary usage of Stratify

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

1. The American Phonographic Dictionary: Exhibiting the Correct and Actual by Elias Longley (1882)
"... Strategy Striated Stricken Strickle Strict-er Stroll-ed Strategist stratify-ied Stroller j Strolling! Strong stratifying Stratification Stratiform ..."

2. A Manual of Flotation Processes by Arthur Fay Taggart (1921)
"Allow the liquids to stratify roughly, and draw off the lower layer. Repeat this operation with new 30- to 5o-cc. portions of sodium hydroxide solution ..."

3. A Manual of Flotation Processes by Arthur Fay Taggart (1921)
"Now wash the combined alkaline extracts with CP benzol in the separatory funnel, allow the mixture to stratify, and draw off the aqueous layer. ..."

4. National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Main Findings, (1993) by Wai Choy, Dean R. Gerstein, Rashna Ghadialy, Felicia Gray (1998)
"In order to preserve continuity between NHSDAs, it was decided to post stratify to the 90-Census-based counts using the generalized raking procedure and ..."

5. Practical physiological chemistry: A Book Designed for Use in Courses in by Philip Bovier Hawk (1914)
"The liquids should stratify with the formation of a white zone of precipitated albumin at the point of juncture. This is a very delicate test and is further ..."

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