What does categorize mean?

Definitions for categorize
ˈkæt ɪ gəˌraɪzcat·e·go·rize

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. categorize, categoriseverb

    place into or assign to a category

    "Children learn early on to categorize"

Wiktionary

  1. categorizeverb

    To assign a category; to divide into classes.

    First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.

Wikipedia

  1. categorize

    Categorization is the ability and activity of recognizing shared features or similarities between the elements of the experience of the world (such as objects, events, or ideas), organizing and classifying experience by associating them to a more abstract group (that is, a category, class, or type), on the basis of their traits, features, similarities or other criteria that are universal to the group. Categorization is considered one of the most fundamental cognitive abilities, and as such it is studied particularly by psychology and cognitive linguistics. Categorization is sometimes considered synonymous with classification (cf., Classification synonyms). Categorization and classification allow humans to organize things, objects, and ideas that exist around them and simplify their understanding of the world. Categorization is something that humans and other organisms do: "doing the right thing with the right kind of thing." The activity of categorizing things can be nonverbal or verbal. For humans, both concrete objects and abstract ideas are recognized, differentiated, and understood through categorization. Objects are usually categorized for some adaptive or pragmatic purposes. Categorization is grounded in the features that distinguish the category's members from nonmembers. Categorization is important in learning, prediction, inference, decision making, language, and many forms of organisms' interaction with their environments.

ChatGPT

  1. categorize

    To categorize means to arrange or classify something into particular groups or classifications based on their shared qualities, characteristics, features or attributes. It involves identifying the similarities and differences among various things and dividing them into organized segments to aid in understanding or analysis.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Categorizeverb

    to insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of categorize in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of categorize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of categorize in a Sentence

  1. Brad Duchaine:

    To categorize someone as prosopagnosic, the person must have difficulties in daily life.

  2. Charlotte Rampling:

    Why should we always categorize people? I think nowadays we are living in easily offended societies. There will always be someone who's too beautiful, too black or not white enough.

  3. John Fetterman:

    I don't mean to nitpick, but I wouldn't categorize John Fetterman as progressive, i consider John Fetterman a Democrat that's running on the same platform of ideas that every other Democrat in this race is running on. And I can't think of a Democrat running nationally that's running on anything functionally different in that regard.

  4. Heiko Ostendorf:

    It's inhumane to categorize people who need help as either useful or useless.

  5. Stephen Miller:

    Equity is the sanitized term of choicedeployed by the hard-Left to encompass the entirepanoplyof government policies that institutionalize Critical Race Theory into the machinery of government, equity is CRT put into practice: It demolishes and replaces equality as the foundational principle of American life and wields fearsome federal government power to exclude, punish,prejudge, evaluate, stereotype,segregate, and obsessively categorize American citizens on the basis of skin color.

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