SYSTEMATIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does systematize mean? 

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

1. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTEMATIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they systematize    ... he / she / it systematizes   
Past simple: systematized   
Past participle: systematized   
-ing form: systematizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange according to a system or reduce to a system

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

systematise; systematize; systemise; systemize

Context example:

systematize our scientific knowledge

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

order (bring order to or into)

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

digest (systematize, as by classifying and summarizing)

codify (organize into a code or system, such as a body of law)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

systematization (systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale)

systematizer (an organizer who puts things in order)

 Context examples 

A systematized collection of concepts that define corresponding codes.

(Code System, NCI Thesaurus)

A symbol or combination of symbols which is given an arbitrary meaning within a systematized collection of concepts used for data representation.

(Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A form or variant of a systematized collection of concepts that define corresponding codes.

(Code System Version, NCI Thesaurus)

The chromosome characteristics of an individual or a cell line are usually presented as a systematized array of metaphase chromosomes from a photomicrograph of a single cell nucleus arranged in pairs in descending order of size and according to the position of the centromere.

(Karyotyping, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)