categorize

Word family

cat·e·go·rize (also categorise British English) /ˈkætəɡəraɪz/ verb [transitiveT]

GROUP/PUT INTO GROUPSto put people or things into groups according to the type of person or thing they are 对…进行分类；把…列作 SYN classify

The population is categorized according to age, sex, and social group.

人口根据年龄、性别和社会群体进行了分类。

categorize something/somebody as something

Keene doesn’t like to be categorized as a socialist.

基恩不喜欢人们把他归类为社会主义者。

—categorization /ˌkætəɡəraɪˈzeɪʃən $ -rə-/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

categorize• Emotions seem to create the ideas which are then categorized.• Nouvel's work is difficult to categorize.• The hotels are categorized according to the standard of the rooms and services they offer.• 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.• The tendency to categorize black sportsmen and women differently from the rest is faintly racist and, I believe, totally unnecessary.• These volumes contain poetry which may be categorized generally as a poetry of attitudes, the attitudes being both literary and vital.• The remainder of the population was strictly categorized into four groups.• The store categorizes records from Asia and Africa as 'World Music'.• Language, invented sometime in the last few million years, involves some really fancy abilities for categorizing sounds.• We shall categorize the explanations which result as being in different modes.• How would you categorize your relationship with your parents?

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 15349 COCA: 7985

categorize

(BrE also categorise)

verb

ADVERB | VERB + CATEGORIZE | PREPOSITION

ADVERB

➤broadly, generally大體上／一般化分類

VERB + CATEGORIZE

➤be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to難以分類；不可能分類

◇Her work is difficult to categorize.她的工作很難歸類。

PREPOSITION

➤according to根據⋯分類

◇to categorize people according to their jobs把人員按工作分類

➤by以⋯分類

◇We categorize voters by their choice of newspaper.我們以選民對報紙的選擇進行分類。

➤into分類為⋯

◇Categorize the plants into four groups.把這些植物分成 4 類。

➤as歸作⋯

◇The employees are categorized as support personnel.這些員工被歸為輔助人員。

TOEFL BNC: 15349 COCA: 7985

categorize verb
⇨ classify

TOEFL BNC: 15349 COCA: 7985

categorize

To categorize things: sort, classify, characterize...