systematize

[ sis-tuh-muh-tahyz ]

/ ˈsɪs tə məˌtaɪz /

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verb (used with object), sys·tem·a·tized, sys·tem·a·tiz·ing.

to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.

OTHER WORDS FOR systematize

organize, order, articulate.

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Also systemize; especially British, sys·tem·a·tise .

Origin of systematize

1755–65; <Greek systēmat- (stem of sýstēma) system + -ize

OTHER WORDS FROM systematize

sys·tem·a·ti·za·tion, nounsys·tem·a·tiz·er, nounnon·sys·tem·a·tized, adjectiveo·ver·sys·tem·a·tize, verb (used with object), o·ver·sys·tem·a·tized, o·ver·sys·tem·a·tiz·ing.

qua·si-sys·tem·a·tized, adjectivere·sys·tem·a·ti·za·tion, nounre·sys·tem·a·tize, verb (used with object), re·sys·tem·a·tized, re·sys·tem·a·tiz·ing.un·sys·tem·a·tized, adjectiveun·sys·tem·a·tiz·ing, adjectivewell-sys·tem·a·tized, adjective

Words nearby systematize

systematic error, systematic phoneme, systematics, systematism, systematist, systematize, systematology, system building, Système International d'Unités, systemic, systemic availability

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How to use systematize in a sentence

After my colleague Daniel Starza Smith and I began working together, we systematized this information, developed a language for describing it consistently, and started to articulate why we thought our findings were important.
Unfolding history|Jane L. Dambrogio|October 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
And, since the late 1800s, its influence has been systematized in American culinary school, as Korsha Wilson reported for Eater.
Stop calling food ‘exotic’|Daniela Galarza|July 8, 2021|Washington Post
What Big Hit Entertainment did, however, was systematize these elements in BTS, and market them hard.
BTS, the band that changed K-pop, explained|Aja Romano|May 21, 2021|Vox
What at first feels artificial to us gradually proves its function as Majella’s effort to systematize the chaos swirling around her.
Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’|Ron Charles|December 2, 2020|Washington Post

"We need to systematize what we do for young women," said Carol Lancaster, dean of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.
The New Activism|Tom Watson|November 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
How can we systematize the making of our wardrobes so that sewing shall occupy us only a small part of our time?
The Complete Club Book for Women|Caroline French Benton
I shall thus follow the method of certain historians, and relate the truth rather than systematize it.
Mysterious Psychic Forces|Camille Flammarion
Some persons, endeavor to systematize their pursuits, by apportioning them to particular hours of each day.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy|Catherine Esther Beecher
Science seeks to classify and systematize the objects of the world for the understanding of our brain.
The Positive Outcome of Philosophy|Joseph Dietzgen
The mission of Positivism is, in the language of its founder, "to generalize science and to systematize sociality."
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12)|Robert G. Ingersoll

British Dictionary definitions for systematize

systematize

systemize, systematise or systemise

/ (ˈsɪstɪməˌtaɪz) /

verb

(tr) to arrange in a system

Derived forms of systematize

systematization, systematisation, systemization or systemisation, nounsystematizer, systematiser, systemizer or systemiser, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for systematize

systemize, systematise or systemise

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