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Categorize

Definitions: Categorize

Categorize

Verb

1. Place into a category.

2. Assign to categories; "Children learn early on to categorize".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Categorize

Synonym: categorise (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Categorize

Specialty definitions using "categorize": thematic mapper. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Categorize

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Last of all, industry interviews reveal that customs agents have fairly wide discretionary powers in deciding how to categorize a piece of equipment or parts of that equipment. (references)

Through its Resolution No. 145/95, the Ministry of Health, established standards to accredit and categorize imaging diagnostic services, through which imaging centers are evaluated and registered based on the quality and accuracy of service. (references)

Women

Germany

The Federal Ministry for Families, the Elderly, Women, and Youth also announced a multiyear initiative designed to increase the number of women and girls who receive training in information technology (IT) and in media careers, with the goal of raising the number of IT-training slots to 60,000 by 2003 and the share of female IT-trainees to 40 percent by 2005. The law provides for equal pay for equal work; however, in practice many employers categorize individual jobs held by women differently from the same job held by a man, thereby creating inequalities in pay for men and women. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Categorize

"Categorize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Categorize" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)83.33%5545,713
Lexical Verb (base form)16.67%11106,044
                    Total100.00%66N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Categorize

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  categorize

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Categorize

Language Translations for "categorize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

klasifikoj (assort, classify, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, label, range, rank, rate, separate, sort, sort out, type), kategorizoj (classify, distribute). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏صنف (article, assort, brand, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), ‏شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, comprise, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

категоризирам, класифицирам (class, classify, distribute, grade, group, label, pigeonhole, range, rank, staple). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

分类 (Assort, Assorted, Assorting, Assortment, categorise, categorised, categorized, Classification, Classified, Classify, Classifying). (various references)

   

Czech

  

třídit (classify, grade). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

طبقه بندی کردن (Assort, Breakdown, Class, Grade, Label, Layer, Type), رده بندی کردن (Subsume), دسته بندی کردن (Grade, Rank). (various references)

   

French

  

classer par catégories, classer et regrouper. (various references)

   

German

  

kategorisieren. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ταξινομώ (assort, class, classify, put in order, sort, tabulate, to sort). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לסו' (assort, catalogue, class, classify, grade, group, label, sort, type). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

osztályoz (class, classify, collocate, grade, label, to assort, to calendar, to categorise, to class, to classify, to distribute, to grade, to itemize, to label, to mark, to pigeonhole, to range, to staple), kategorizál (to categorize). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menggolongkan (classify, see: golong), menganggap (deem, look upon, regard as). (various references)

   

Italian

  

classificare (assort, categorise, class, classify, classifying, classing, clear, digest, grade, label, place, range, rank, seed, sort), categorizzare (categorise). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

분류하십시" (Assort, categorise, Classify, fractionate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ategorizecay

   

Portuguese

  

classificar (assort, catalog, catalogue, class, classify, docket, grade, group of children, index finger, label, letter, pigeonhole, range, rank, rate, refer, size, sort, staple, subsume, tabulate), dispor em categorias. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

categorisi (classify, peg, style). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

устанавливать категорию, классифицировать (classify, distribute, itemize, pigeonhole, rate, size). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

svrstavati u kategorije, kategorizacija. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

catalogar (catalog, catalogue, list, schedule, to catalog). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kategorisera (classify, divide). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sınıflandırmak (assort, class, classify, divide, grade, graduate, group, label, label as, rate, sort, sort out, subsume), sınıflamak (classify, grade, seed, staple), kategorize etmek (class). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розподіляти по категоріях, класифікувати (assort, class, classify, distribute, group, pigeonhole, rank, relegate, sort). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chia loại (categorise), phân loại (categorise). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Categorize

Derivations

Words beginning with "categorize": categorized, categorizes. (additional references)

Words ending with "categorize": subcategorize. (additional references)

Words containing "categorize": subcategorized, subcategorizes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Categorize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catagorize, categorie, categorise, caterogize. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Categorize"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "categorize" (pronounced ka"tugerī'z)
3-er ī' zaccessorize, authorize, burglarize, characterize, colorize, computerize, containerize, demilitarize, denuclearize, depressurize, familiarize, glamorize, memorize, mesmerize, militarize, miniaturize, mischaracterize, motorize, pasteurize, plagiarize, polarize, polymerize, popularize, pressurize, pulverize, reauthorize, rubberize, samurais, satirize, summarize, temporize, terrorize, theorize, vaporize, winterize.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Categorize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-o-r-t-z"

-2 letters: graecize.

-3 letters: argotic, cigaret, cortege, coterie, ergotic, erotica, erotize, grecize, ocreate.

-4 letters: aigret, aortic, azotic, cagier, cerate, cerite, coatee, coater, cozier, create, ecarte, ergate, erotic, gaiter, garote, goatee, goiter, goitre, ocreae, orgeat, orgiac, recite, tierce, tragic, triage, zoecia.

-5 letters: actor, aerie, agree, areic, arete, argot, azoic, azote, cager, caret, cargo, carte, cater, ceria, cigar.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-o-r-t-z"
 

+1 letter: categorized, categorizes.

 

+3 letters: subcategorize.

 

+4 letters: subcategorized, subcategorizes.

 

+5 letters: laryngectomized, uncategorizable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Categorize


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 74 65 67 6F 72 69 7A 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    -    .    --.    ---    .-.    ..    --..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100111 01101111 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#103 &#111 &#114 &#105 &#122 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0065 0067 006F 0072 0069 007A 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37678671738184759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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