classify

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In addition to these selections the student might classify, as far as possible, the poetical extracts previously given.

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  1. transitive verb To arrange or organize according to class or category.
  2. transitive verb To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret.

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  • When we started Flickr it was hard to classify -- was it a social network?
  • In particular, it is desired to acknowledge indebtedness to Mr. W. H. Meadowcroft not only for substantial aid in the literary part of the work, but for indefatigable effort to group, classify, and summarize the boundless material embodied in Edison's note-books and memorabilia of all kinds now kept at the Orange laboratory. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The! exploitable utility is designed to help developers classify, assess and ultimately prevent program crashes, especially as they relate to exploits running loose in enterprise processing environments. —  Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News
  • How Biologists Classify Organisms Objectives: •List the characteristics that biologists use to classify organisms. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The YuMe ad management platform gives advertisers and publishers the unprecedented ability to identify, classify, and track content to ensure brand safety, contextual relevance, controlled syndication, and consistent delivery across all digital media platforms 'Web, downloads, mobile, and IPTV.
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  1. = French classifier = Spanish clasificar = Portuguese classificar = Italian classificare (cf. Dutch klassificeren = German classificiren = Danish klassificere), from New Latin classificare, classify (cf. classific), from Latin classis, a class, + facere, make: see class, n., and -fy.
 

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/ˈklæsɪfai/
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