classifyclas‧si‧fy /ˈklæsɪfaɪ/ ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle classified, present participle classifying, third person singular classifies) [transitive] 
In law, beer is classified as a food product. We’d classify Drabble’s novels under ‘Romance’. Families are classified according to the father’s occupation.2to regard people or things as belonging to a particular group because they have similar qualities: As a musician, Cage is hard to classify.—classifiable adjective
VERB TABLE
classify
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | classify |
| he, she, it | classifies | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | classified |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have classified |
| he, she, it | has classified | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had classified |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will classify |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have classified |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am classifying |
| he, she, it | is classifying | |
| you, we, they | are classifying | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was classifying |
| you, we, they | were classifying | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been classifying |
| he, she, it | has been classifying | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been classifying |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be classifying |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been classifying |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Babies walking later than 18 months were classified as slow walkers.
- Carpentry and furniture making are usually classified as skilled trades.
- Eggs are classified by weight as Extra Large, Large, Medium, Small, and Peewee.
- Scientists have discovered a new type of butterfly which has not yet been classified.
- The military has classified the results of the weapons test.
- Wines can be classified according to their sugar content - that is dry, medium or sweet.
- For the purposes of the discriminate analysis tissues were classified as showing no reactivity versus any reactivity.
- How, then, I wonder, might we thus, sociologically, classify Bourdieu?
- The first step has been to start classifying the problems.
- The stations on the Trans-Siberian were classified according to size and amenity into five categories.
- They can be classified into two types: in-store strategies and advertising and promotions.
THESAURUSto put in order
to put things in a particular order or position: · I like the way you’ve arranged the room.· a group of numbers arranged in any order
to arrange things in order according to a system, so that they are more effective or easier to use: · The book is organized into three sections.· How is the equipment organized?
to arrange a group of things so that one comes after the other in a particular order: · The books are ordered according to title.
to arrange things in groups, and give each group a title: · The towns were classified according to population size.
to arrange a group of things on the floor, on a table, on a shelf etc, ready to be used: · If we set out the chairs now, they’ll be ready for tonight’s meeting.
to be arranged according to a particular plan – used especially about cities, buildings, and pages: · Kyoto is laid out according to a grid system.
Longman Language Activatorto put things or people into groups to arrange a large number of things by putting them into groups, so that you can deal with each group separately: · It takes a couple of hours to sort the mail in the morning.sort something into something: · We sorted all the clothes into two piles - those to be kept, and those to be given away. · The rubbish has to be sorted into things that can be recycled and things that can'tsort something according to something: · The eggs are sorted according to size.
also categorise British to decide which group something should belong to, when there is a clear system of separate groups: · Communication involves a variety of behaviours which are difficult to categorise.categorize something according to something: · The hotels are categorized according to the standard of the rooms and services they offer.categorize into: · Words can be categorised into verbs, nouns, adjectives etc. · Animals are categorised into three types - carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.categorize something as something (=say which group it is in): · The store categorizes records from Asia and Africa as 'World Music'.
to decide what group books, plants, animals etc belong to according to an official or scientific system: · Scientists have discovered a new type of butterfly which has not yet been classified.classify something as: · 43 countries are categorized as "low-income" by the World Bank.· Babies walking later than 18 months were classified as slow walkers.
if people or things are grouped , they have been put into separate groups according to a system: be grouped according to: · The vehicles are grouped according to engine size.be grouped together: · Non-fiction books are grouped together under different subjects.be grouped into: · Most European languages can be grouped into two main families.group something into types/categories/classes etc: · The respondents were grouped into three categories - non-smokers, smokers, and ex-smokers.
to say that people or things belong to a particular group, especially according to an official system: class somebody/something as something: · This prison houses the most dangerous criminals in Britain, those classed as "category A'.· Heroin and cocaine are classed as hard drugs.
to separate things such as food, drinks, or products into groups according to their quality: · All the fruit is taken to the warehouse where it is graded and packed.· One supermarket now grades its wines on a scale of 1 to 9, from driest to sweetest.
to say that someone or something belongs to a particular type also categorise British to decide that someone or something belongs to a particular group of people or things that have similar qualities: categorize somebody/something as something: · Dali was categorized as a surrealist painter.· Forecasts suggest that by the year 2010, only about 30 percent of U.S. households will be categorized as middle class.
to put things or people into particular groups, especially according to an official or scientific system: classify somebody/something as something: · Carpentry and furniture making are usually classified as skilled trades.classify somebody/something by/according to something: · Wines can be classified according to their sugar content - that is dry, medium or sweet.· Eggs are classified by weight as Extra Large, Large, Medium, Small, and Peewee.
to decide unfairly, that certain people have particular qualities, abilities, or needs, for example because they are of a particular sex, race, or social class: · Teachers often stereotype kids who speak with strong regional accents.stereotype somebody as something: · There is a tendency to stereotype childless women as being hard and career-orientated.
to say that someone or something can be described as a particular type or group, in a way that is too simple and therefore unfair: · You shouldn't pigeonhole people according to your first impressions of them.· When your band becomes successful, people immediately try to pigeonhole you, but we're into all kinds of music - dance, rock, jazz, blues.
if you include something under a particular category or heading, you decide that it belongs to that particular group of things: classify/categorize/file/list something under something: · In our library, novels are classified under Crime, Romance, and General.· The Association of British Travel Agents is listed under "Trade Associations and Professional Bodies" in the Yellow Pages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Families are classified according to the father’s occupation.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
1to decide what group something belongs toclassify something as/under something Families are classified according to the father’s occupation.· These can roughly be classified as coming from work, hobbies and pastimes.· Sleazy and tedious, the film would need to improve a few rungs to be classified as merely dreadful.· This lawyer was therefore classified as professionally marginal, in a structural rather than an attitudinal sense.· It was classified as high security, and there were more guards than engineers working in the compound.· They were classified as successes of treatment as subsequent radiological examination had been normal.· Obviously waves may have frequencies of intermediate magnitude and so be difficult to classify as either destructive or constructive.· He has paid a terrible price for conduct that I am not sufficiently censorious to classify as wrong, bad or wicked.
NOUN· Are you satisfied with your initial attempt to classify the political systems above?
· Its profits will depend on the action chosen and the state of the market, which it has classified into four categories.· Punctuation marks are classified as separate syntactic categories and grammars and transition matrices based around this assumption.· When this point is reached, the patient is classified into a different category, for which therapy is clearly indicated.· It is more interesting to classify strategies according to certain categories, and examine the success of these broader divisions.
· How, then, should a court confronted with the issue go about classifying a function as public or not?· State organizations can be classified according to which function is furthered by their budgets.· Many studies have aimed at typologies of code switching which classify switches according to their function in discourse.· Powers and Duties Another way of classifying reviewable functions is into the categories of powers and duties.· Streets. from sub-arterial to local should be classified according to function.· Functional courses which classify discourse by function alone often overlook this complex interaction.
· Can we use a shape difference measure to classify the axes into groups of similar types on the basis of their shapes?· Tremor, involuntary trembling or quivering in an approximately periodic manner, can be roughly classified into two groups { 27 }.· In fact, the state has classified the group as the top security threat in Arizona prisons.· On the basis of their canonical nucleotide sequences they can be classified as group I introns.· They were classified into two distinct groups, those who gained entry through traditional methods and those who had not.· The males could be classified into dialect groups.
· A girl classified the information coming in and entered it up on file cards.· Its name is no longer classified information, but virtually all other details concerning the agency continue to be.· But Commerce Department officials said that did not entitle him to see any classified information, and they maintain he saw none.· This was the National Reconnaissance Office, an organization so secret that even today its very name is considered classified information.· A 10-year life span for classified information, unless an agency specifies that the information must have continued secrecy.· So far, there is evidence only that Huang had authorized access to classified information and the opportunity to pass it on.· It cost government and defense contractors $ 5. 6 billion in 1995 to protect classified national security information.
· They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull.· Party systems are generally classified according to the number of political parties and the interactions among the parties in the governing process.· Taxes may be classified in a number of different ways.· The analysis for Developmental Sentence Types involves classifying each utterance in respect of number of words and grammatical category.· Each sentence was classified according to a number of textual features which might increase the amount of time required to read it.
· We can now classify patients as having good or bad glycaemic control.· We classified our patients in three groups.· It is helpful to classify patients with Type 2 diabetes into obese and non-obese.
· What is required is an explication of the principle under which they both can be classified under the same species of item.
· Several workers have devised systems of classifying either habitat or vegetation for one or both regions.· A basic task in political analysis is to determine whether there are some criteria by which political systems can be classified.· A basic information system merely classifies and stores data.· Party systems are generally classified according to the number of political parties and the interactions among the parties in the governing process.· Some political systems are probably best classified on a continuum between totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
· It is helpful to classify patients with Type 2 diabetes into obese and non-obese.· Plant and machinery: The plant and machinery owned by the business can be broadly classified into three types as follows.· Therefore we may classify the various types of expenditure as in Figure 10.2.· According to the description by Reznikoff etal three types of transformed cells were classified.· These have been classified into two main types.
VERB· The four degree score of Binder was used to classify clinical and endoscopic findings.· You can also find used scooters in the classified ads and Web pages run by Vespa clubs.· It is the shape of the hip bones, rather than other anatomical differences, that are used to classify dinosaurs.· The body mass index is the most commonly used method for classifying obesity.
In law, beer is classified as a food product. We’d classify Drabble’s novels under ‘Romance’. Families are classified according to the father’s occupation.2to regard people or things as belonging to a particular group because they have similar qualities: As a musician, Cage is hard to classify.—classifiable adjective- colourfully
- colouring
- colouring book
- colourist
- colourless
- colourlessly
- colour scheme
- colour supplement
- Colt
- colt
- Coltrane, John
- Columbia
- Columbia Pictures
- Columbia University
- Columbine
- Columbine High School massacre
- Columbo
- Columbus
- Columbus, Christopher
- Columbus Day
- column
- columnist
- com
- coma
- Comanche