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- Dictionaryclassify/ˈklasɪfʌɪ/
verb
- 1. arrange (a group of people or things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics: "mountain peaks are classified according to their shape"
- 2. designate (documents or information) as officially secret: "government officials classified 6.3 million documents in 1992"
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The meaning of CLASSIFY is to arrange in classes. How to use classify in a sentence.
to divide things or people into groups according to their type, or to say which group or type something or someone belongs to: The books in the library are classified by subject. Biologists classify animals and plants into different groups. be classified as children who are classified as overweight. Compare. class verb.
Classify definition: to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.. See examples of CLASSIFY used in a sentence.
The word classify contains the base word class, which means "category" and comes from the Latin classis, which actually referred to an army or group called to arms. It eventually came to mean "a group," and thus classify means "to group."
Definition of classify verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
classify. ( ˈklæsɪˌfaɪ) vb ( tr) , -fies, -fying or -fied. 1. to arrange or order by classes; categorize. 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) government to declare (information, documents, etc) of possible aid to an enemy and therefore not available to people outside a restricted group.
to put people or things into groups by their type, size, etc: [ often passive ] A third of the population has been classified as poor. The books are classified by subject. (Definition of classify from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
classify. To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group. It is necessary initially to classify the headaches into certain types. ...the arbitrary classification of knowledge into fields of study.
classify. verb. /ˈklæsəˌfaɪ/. Verb Forms. classify something to arrange things in groups according to features that they have in common The books in the library are classified according to subject. Patients are classified into three categories.
