categorize

For information about Wiktionary categories, see Wiktionary:Categorization.

English

Alternative forms

• categorise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From category +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəɡəˌɹaɪz/, /ˈkætəɡɔˌɹaɪz/

• Audio (US):

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Verb

categorize (third-person singular simple present categorizes, present participle categorizing, simple past and past participle categorized)

1. (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.

   First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:classify

Derived terms

• autocategorize
• categorizable
• categorizer
• decategorize
• miscategorize
• overcategorize
• recategorize
• subcategorize
• uncategorize

Related terms

• category
• categorisation
• categorization

Translations

to assign a category

Armenian: դասակարգել (hy) (dasakargel) Catalan: categoritzar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 分類 / 分类 (zh) (fēnlèi) Czech: kategorizovat (cs) Danish: kategorisere (da) Esperanto: kategoriigi Finnish: luokitella (fi) French: classer (fr), classifier (fr), catégoriser (fr) Galician: categorizar German: kategorisieren (de) Greek: ταξινομώ (el) (taxinomó), κατηγοριοποιώ (el) (katigoriopoió) Hebrew: קטלג (qitlég), סִוֵּג (he) (sivvég) Hindi: श्रेणीबद्ध (hi) (śreṇībaddh) Icelandic: flokka, draga í dilka Ido: klasigar (io), kategoriizar (io) Italian: categorizzare (it) Japanese: 分類する (ja) (ぶんるいする, bunrui suru) Maori: whakarōpū, whakakāwai Norwegian: Bokmål: kategorisere Nynorsk: kategorisere Portuguese: categorizar (pt) Romanian: categorisi (ro) Russian: классифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (klassificírovatʹ), категоризи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kategorizírovatʹ) Spanish: categorizar (es) Swedish: kategorisera (sv)

Galician

Verb

categorize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of categorizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

categorize

1. inflection of categorizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative