categorize

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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]

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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?

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