categorize
verb (used with object)
to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
categorise
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a variation of
categorize.
Example Sentences
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In an adjacent room, two students digitise and categorise the images, preparing them to be returned to their owners in a format similar to their original albums.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
Trip-hop was invented to help categorise Portishead and Massive Attack in the mid-90s, while the term Crunk was coined to onomatopaeically reflect the bass-heavy club sounds of Southern hip-hop.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Neil Sinclair, the ambulance service's chief paramedic officer, agreed that a failure to properly categorise the condition of 25-year-old Lee Gannon had led to his death.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
And yet she says reports from 2017 - that the company had been using algorithms to target and categorise vulnerable teens - were true.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
He had long since come to categorise them in his own mind as the furious vapourings of a desperate and disappointed man.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford
