CATEGORIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does categorize mean? 

• CATEGORIZE (verb)
  The verb CATEGORIZE has 1 sense:

1. place into or assign to a category

  Familiarity information: CATEGORIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATEGORIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they categorize    ... he / she / it categorizes   
Past simple: categorized   
Past participle: categorized   
-ing form: categorizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place into or assign to a category

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

categorise; categorize

Context example:

Children learn early on to categorize

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

reason (think logically)

"Categorize" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "categorize"):

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out (arrange or order by classes or categories)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

categorization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

categorization (the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories)

categorization (a group of people or things arranged by class or category)

category (a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme)

category (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

 Context examples 

A classification scheme to categorize dosage forms.

(Dosage Form Category, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification system used to categorize the sensitivity of a subject's skin to sunlight.

(CDISC Skin Classification Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A terminology codelist based on the functional classification developed by the New York Heart Association (NYHA), for categorizing patients with defined or presumed cardiac disease.

(CDISC SDTM New York Heart Association Class Responses Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Used to categorize the result of a finding in a standard format.

(CDISC SDTM Microbiology Susceptibility Testing Result Category Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The acquisition of images that utilize only categorized scanner's counts during one or more (up to all) selected parts of some cyclic process in the subject.

(Gated Scan, NCI Thesaurus)

Note 2: Previously the definition of a lotion was: The term lotion has been used to categorize many topical suspensions, solutions, and emulsions intended for application to the skin.

(Lotion Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Pancreatic cysts are categorized as congenital, retention, neoplastic, parasitic, enterogenous, or dermoid.

(Pancreatic Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A finding associated with a patient based on the functional classification developed by the New York Heart Association (NYHA), for categorizing patients with defined or presumed cardiac disease.

(New York Heart Association Class, NCI Thesaurus)

Improvement in some organs, but worsening in others in chronic Graft versus Host Disease (cGVHD); this is categorized as progressive disease.

(Mixed Response in cGVHD, NCI Thesaurus)

Almost 40% of global land plant species are categorized as very rare, and these species are most at risk for extinction as climate continues to change.

(Nearly 40% of plant species are very rare, and vulnerable to climate change, National Science Foundation)