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categorize Definition

cat·ego·rize (kat′ə gə rīz′)

transitive verb -·rized′, -·riz′·ing

to place in a category; classify

categorize Related Forms

cat′egor′i·za′·tion (-gôr′ə zā′s̸hən) noun

categorize Synonyms

categorize

v.

classify, characterize, pigeonhole; see classify, describe.

categorize Usage Examples

Object

  • directory: Home Office HQ: categorized resource directory for everything about home office.
  • object: Color, or hue, is used to categorize objects.
  • site: It lets web users review and categorize sites based on their areas of interest and expertise.
  • collection: Features also, euro cups, world cup, Euro championship data and large categorized links collection.
  • link: Some webmasters did not bother to categorize the links.
  • amount: They provide a means of aggregating, correlating, indexing and categorizing the vast amounts of content in the wild world of Internet.

Subject

  • level: Blue Web'n is a searchable library of Blue-Ribbon Web sites categorized by grade level, content area, and type.
  • subject: Magazine Rack - Grizzly Web Links Report Broken Link... Links to many magazines, categorized by subject.

Preposition: into

  • category: By 1950, all South Africans were categorized into three categories: white, black or colored.
  • type: Over 800 schools nationwide categorized into 400 different types of degrees.

Modifying Another Word

  • alphabetically: Graphic terminology is categorized alphabetically and interpreted using easy language and clear illustrations.
  • broadly: Industry links are broadly categorized for ease of navigation.
  • automatically: The search engine automatically categorizes search results into meaningful hierarchical folders.
  • easily: Tag: allows you to easily categorize info, which broadens its reach for many people.
  • often: Journalists and cultural commentators like to give names to social trends or groups, which they often categorize by characteristic language uses.

Present participle complement

accord: The child is categorized according to the total number of points he/she scores.

Preposition: in

term: These differences have been categorized in terms of problem page types.

Preposition: under

heading: The interviews were sorted and categorized under the four headings social, organizational, external and individual.

Preposition: by

  • level: Blue Web'n is a searchable library of Blue-Ribbon Web sites categorized by grade level, content area, and type.
  • subject: Magazine Rack - Grizzly Web Links Report Broken Link... Links to many magazines, categorized by subject.