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Definition: Reclassify |
ReclassifyVerb1. Classify anew, change the previous classification; "The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Synonyms by domain: computerized administration of patent documents reclassified according to the IPC (computing, law), reclassified combat-capable trainer aircraft (law, politics & international affaires), reclassifying of a set (transportation), reclassifying of a train set. |
Crosswords: Reclassify |
| Specialty definitions using "reclassify": Flunitrazepam. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | China | During the year, foreign diplomats and journalists sought permission to attend a number of trials only to have court officials reclassify them as "state secrets" cases, thus rendering them closed to the public. (references) |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) has criticized the labor laws for giving "wide scope to the authorities to declare that a given enterprise or industry constitutes an essential service, and then impose a ban (on strikes) on it." The authority to reclassify a previously nonessential service as essential was not used during the year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reclassify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "Reclassify" is used about 11 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "reclassify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重新列级. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reclasser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | neu einteilen (to reclassify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eclassifyray reclassificar. (various references) reclasificar. (various references) klassificera om. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "reclassify": reclassifying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reclassify" (pronounced rēkla"sufī') |
| 7 | -k l a" s u f ī' | classify, declassify. |
| 5 | -a" s u f ī' | pacify. |
| 4 | -s u f ī' | calcify, crucify, detoxify, diversify, falsify, intensify, ossify, specify. |
| 3 | -u f ī' | acidify, amplify, beautify, certify, clarify, codify, decertify, deify, demystify, dignify, disqualify, edify, electrify, exemplify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, oversimplify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify, vilify. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-l-r-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: fireclays. | |
-2 letters: classier, classify, fireclay. | |
-3 letters: airless, carless, claries, clarify, classer, clayier, clerisy, crassly, cresyls, crissal, eclairs, falsies, farcies, fecials, fiacres, fiscals, flayers, fraises, rayless, resails, sailers, salsify, scalers, scalier, scarify, scarily, scleras, serails, serials, sferics, slayers, slicers. | |
-4 letters: aerify, aerily, aisles, ariels, arises, califs, caress, caries, carles, carses, casefy, cerias, classy, clears, crases, crasis, creasy, cresyl, crises, crissa, cyesis, easily, eclair, ericas, escars, facers, facies, facile, fairly, falces, falser, falsie, farces, farcie, farles, fasces, fecial, ferial, ferias, fiacre, filers, filses, fiscal, flairs, flares, flayer, fliers, flyers, frails, fraise, frises, lacers, lacier, lasers, lassie, layers, lifers, lyases, lyrics, racily, raises, rassle, relays, relics, resail, resays, rifely, rifles, riyals, safely, saices, sailer, salify, sayers, scaler, scales, scares, scarey, scarfs, sclera, scries, seracs, serail, serais, serial, serifs, slayer, slicer, slices. | |
-5 letters: acres, acyls, afire, aisle, alecs, alefs, alifs, areic, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arses, arsis, aryls, cafes, calfs, calif, cares, carle, carls, carse, cases, ceils, ceria, cires, cissy, clary, class, clays, clear, clefs, crass, cress, cries, earls, early, erica, escar, essay, eyras, facer, faces, faery, fails, fairs, fairy, false, farce, farci, farcy, fares, farle, farls, fears, fecal, feral, feria, ferly, fiars, fices, fiery, filar, filer, files, fires, fiscs, flair, flare, flays, fleas, fleys, flics, flier, flies, flyer, frail, frass, frays, fries, frise, fyces, ileac, isles, lacer, laces, lacey, laics, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lases, layer, leafs, leafy, lears, leary, liars, liers, lifer, liras, lyase, lycea, lyres, lyric, lyses, lysis, lyssa, races, rails, raise, rales, rases, reals, refly, reifs, reify, relay, relic, resay, rials, rices, riels, rifle, riles, riley, rises, riyal, safer, safes, saice, sails, sales, salic, saris, sayer, scale, scaly, scare, scarf, scars, scary, seals, sears, seifs, selfs, serac, serai, seral, serfs, serif, sials, sices, sires, sisal, slays, slice, slier, slyer, syces, sylis, years. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-l-r-s-s-y" | |
+2 letters: overclassify. | |
+3 letters: reclassifying. | |
+5 letters: overclassifying. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6C 61 73 73 69 66 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. .-.. .- ... ... .. ..-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c l a s s i f y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006C 0061 0073 0073 0069 0066 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716978678585757291 |
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