CLASSIFY (classified)

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Irregular inflected form: classified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does classify mean? 

• CLASSIFY (verb)
  The verb CLASSIFY has 3 senses:

1. arrange or order by classes or categories

2. declare unavailable, as for security reasons

3. assign to a class or kind

  Familiarity information: CLASSIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASSIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they classify    ... he / she / it classifies   
Past simple: classified   
Past participle: classified   
-ing form: classifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange or order by classes or categories

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out

Context example:

How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?

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

categorise; categorize (place into or assign to a category)

"Classify" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

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

unitise; unitize (separate or classify into units)

catalog; catalogue (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)

isolate (separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them)

refer (think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another)

reclassify (classify anew, change the previous classification)

size (sort according to size)

dichotomise; dichotomize (divide into two opposing groups or kinds)

pigeonhole; stamp; stereotype (treat or classify according to a mental stereotype)

group (arrange into a group or groups)

grade (determine the grade of or assign a grade to)

count; number (put into a group)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

class (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

class (a league ranked by quality)

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

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

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

classificatory (relating to or involving classification)

classifier (a person who creates classifications)

class (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Declare unavailable, as for security reasons

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Classify these documents

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

control; restrict (place under restrictions; limit access to by law)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue classify the movie

Antonym:

declassify (lift the restriction on and make available again)

Derivation:

classification (restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Assign to a class or kind

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

classify; relegate

Context example:

People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms

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

assign; attribute (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

class (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

classifier (a person who creates classifications)

classifier (a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs)

classificatory (relating to or involving classification)

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

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

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

class (a league ranked by quality)

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

class (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

 Context examples 

It is classified either as adenoma or carcinoma.

(Anterior Pituitary Gland Endocrine Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the size of the malignant cells, the prominence of the nucleoli, and the amount of cytoplasm, it is classified either as small or large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma.

(Ampulla of Vater Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, according to the growth pattern, it may be classified as tubular, tubulovillous, or villous.

(Ampulla of Vater Intestinal-Type Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Agents used to treat malaria, and are usually classified based on action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human.

(Antimalarial Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the growth pattern, it may be classified as tubular, villous, or tubulovillous.

(Appendix Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A bacterial family of uncertain placement in the phylum Firmicutes and the order Bacillales that is used to classify the genus Exiguobacterium.

(Bacillales XII, NCI Thesaurus)

A bacterial family of uncertain placement in the phylum Firmicutes and the order Bacillales that is used to classify the genus Gemella.

(Bacillales XI, NCI Thesaurus)

"Personally, I am unable to classify the creature with any certainty," said Summerlee, lighting his pipe from the fire.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These lymphomas are usually extranodal, most often express a B-cell phenotype and morphologically are classified as Burkitt, diffuse large B-cell, and Hodgkin lymphomas.

(AIDS-Related Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute leukemia in which the blasts lack sufficient evidence to classify as myeloid or lymphoid or they have morphologic and/or immunophenotypic characteristics of both myeloid and lymphoid cells.

(Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage, NCI Thesaurus)