categorize
verbOPAL W
/ˈkætəɡəraɪz/
/ˈkætəɡəraɪz/
(British English also categorise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they categorize | /ˈkætəɡəraɪz/ /ˈkætəɡəraɪz/ |
| he / she / it categorizes | /ˈkætəɡəraɪzɪz/ /ˈkætəɡəraɪzɪz/ |
| past simple categorized | /ˈkætəɡəraɪzd/ /ˈkætəɡəraɪzd/ |
| past participle categorized | /ˈkætəɡəraɪzd/ /ˈkætəɡəraɪzd/ |
| -ing form categorizing | /ˈkætəɡəraɪzɪŋ/ /ˈkætəɡəraɪzɪŋ/ |
- to put people or things into groups according to what type they are synonym classify
- categorize somebody/something Participants were categorized according to age.
- categorize somebody/something as something His latest work cannot be categorized as either a novel or an autobiography.
Extra Examples- Her work is difficult to categorize.
- The employees are categorized as support personnel.
- These factors can be conveniently categorized under three headings.
- We categorize voters by their choice of newspaper.
- categorizing people according to their jobs
- Some types of investment risk are difficult to categorize.
- Trade unions can be categorized into three main types.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- broadly
- generally
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- be impossible to
- …
- according to
- by
- into
- …