Usually means: Sort items into defined groups.
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  1. categorize: Merriam-Webster
  2. categorize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. categorize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. categorize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. categorize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Categorize, categorize: Wordnik
  7. categorize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. categorize: Wiktionary
  9. categorize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. categorize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. categorize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Categorize, categorize: Dictionary.com
  13. categorize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Categorize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Categorize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. categorize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. categorize: Rhymezone
  18. Categorize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. categorize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. categorize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. categorize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. categorize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. categorize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. categorize: Encyclopedia

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.

Similar:
distribute, categorise, class, assign, reclass, subclassify, subcategorize, recategorize, supercategorize, rank, more...

Opposite:
lump together, throw together, mix together

Types:
taxonomy, classification, categorization, taxonomic system, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     red,     orange, more...



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Similar:
distribute, categorise, class, assign, reclass, subclassify, subcategorize, recategorize, supercategorize, rank, more...

Opposite:
lump together, throw together, mix together

Types:
taxonomy, classification, categorization, taxonomic system, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     red,     orange, more...



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