Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To form, arrange, or deposit in layers.
- v. To preserve (seeds) by placing them between layers of moist sand or similar material.
- v. To arrange or separate into castes, classes, or social levels.
- v. To separate into a sequence of graded status levels.
- v. To become layered; form strata.
- v. To develop different levels of caste, class, privilege, or status.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To form into a layer or layers, as substances in the earth; lay or arrange in strata.
- To preserve (tree-seeds) by spreading them in layers alternating with layers of earth or sand.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To become separated out into distinct layers or strata.
- v. transitive To separate out into distinct layers or strata.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
WordNet 3.0
- v. form, arrange, or deposit in layers
- v. develop different social levels, classes, or castes
- v. render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand
- v. form layers or strata
- v. divide society into social classes or castes
Examples
“I continue to object to being read as someone who wants to "stratify" the Gospel of Thomas.”
“It will stratify, meaning it will likely follow the air currents as it travels through our home. ”
“In fact, fewer options automatically stratify such students further by funneling them into the Cal State University and California Community College systems.”
The Huffington Post: José Luis Santos: A Watershed Moment for the UC System
“They will certainly stratify who gets what, when and how.”
Incoming AFL-CIO pres again draws the line on a public option
“We stratify by income anyway (via housing costs), and get the same thing you claim not to like.”
“A new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, “Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,” found that charter schools stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country.”
“Together, they can be used "to stratify men into saying, 'You have a high chance of having cancer, and you should get a biopsy now, or if you are in a lower risk group you have a much lower risk of cancer and perhaps you could delay the biopsy,'" Tomlins said.”
“It's designed to better stratify the membership tiers so that the benefits logically and progressively improve.”
The Wall Street Journal: United Continental Unveils New Mileage Plan
“Why do we need to stratify this sonorous state of affairs at all?”
The Guardian: Beyoncé, Gaga and Adele: why these three girls rule the world (of pop)
“Your argument assumes that there aren't any other market segmentations that stratify skill set.”
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stratify’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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GRE 3500 S
saccharine, sacrilegious, sacrosanct, sagacious, sage, salient, salutary, salvo, sanctimonious, sanguine, sap, sardonic and 138 more...
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Words
This list is a dumping/sorting ground. Maybe I'll get around to categorising these words, or not.
Probably, not.nominalize, nascent, adroit, felicitous, appellation, paramour, pneumatic, rapacious, sinistral, neologism, piquancy, plenitude and 60 more...
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Words to learn and use
catachresis, geniture, discontinuity, vicariously, vicarious, hedge, worldly, exhort, accretion, atrophy, empiricism, pathologic and 19 more...
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Arthur's Words
malfeasance, mollycoddle, mortify, salivate, annotate, mildew, stratify, clamor, platitude, conjugate, largesse, monopolize and 7 more...
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