| 单词 | stratify |
| 释义 | stratify (once / 4175 pages) v Stratify means to divide into layers or classes. Announcing pay raises for only half of the employees in a company would be a quick way to stratify the office. Stratify is often used in the context of geology, when materials in the earth’s crust stratify, or form layers. This phenomenon serves as an apt metaphor for other uses of the word, particularly as it's applied to social situations. If you attend a party for geologists and notice that the mineralogists are ignoring the petrologists (and the vulcanologist didn’t even bother to show up), you might conclude that something has caused this group of geologists to stratify. WORD FAMILYstratify: interstratify, stratification, stratified, stratifies, stratifying+/interstratify: interstratified/stratification: stratifications/stratified: unstratified/stratum: strata, stratify, stratums, substratum, superstratum/substratum: substratums USAGE EXAMPLESIn “Folding Beijing,” you portray a deeply stratified society in which even mingling among economic classes is forbidden. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) The project has rekindled debate in this intensely stratified city over who has the right to its shrinking green spaces and shores. Seattle Times(Nov 24, 2016) An unfolding transformation from the socially stratified dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz to an egalitarian socialist ideal would be visualized — and sanctified — in magnificent civic paintings. Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1v form, arrange, or deposit in layers The fish are stratified in barrels The rock was stratified by the force of the water A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses Hypo|Hyper interstratify arrange rocks in alternating strata lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location 2v form layers or strata The rock stratifies Hyper arrange, set up put into a proper or systematic order 3v render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand stratify seeds Hyper fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, inseminate introduce semen into (a female) 4v develop different social levels, classes, or castes Society stratifies when the income gap widens Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 5v divide society into social classes or castes Income distribution often stratifies a society Hyper differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart mark as different |
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