ALPHABETIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alphabetize mean? 

• ALPHABETIZE (verb)
  The verb ALPHABETIZE has 2 senses:

1. arrange in alphabetical order

2. provide with an alphabet

  Familiarity information: ALPHABETIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALPHABETIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they alphabetize    ... he / she / it alphabetizes   
Past simple: alphabetized   
Past participle: alphabetized   
-ing form: alphabetizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange in alphabetical order

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

alphabetise; alphabetize

Context example:

Alphabetize the list

Hypernyms (to "alphabetize" is one way to...):

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language)

alphabetization (the act of putting in alphabetical order)

alphabetizer (a literate person who can arrange items in alphabetical order)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with an alphabet

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages

Hypernyms (to "alphabetize" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

alphabet (a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language)