classifyv.

Brit.

/ˈklasᵻfʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈklæsəˌfaɪ/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin classis , -fy suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin classis class n. + -fy suffix. Compare French classifier to arrange in or analyse into classes (1781 (in the passage translated in quot. 1789 at classified adj.¹ 1a) in this sense, in past participle classifiés (plural); 16th cent. in an isolated attestation in Middle French as clacyfier in sense ‘to establish (a text) on the basis of classifications’), post-classical Latin classificare to distribute in classes (in an undated Hungarian source), and also German klassifizieren (1767 as †klaßificiren ; also †klassificiren ), Swedish klassificera (1752), Danish klassificere (1753), Italian classificare (1797), all in sense ‘to arrange in or analyse into classes’. Compare earlier class v.

1. transitive. To arrange in or analyse into classes according to shared qualities or characteristics; to make a formal or systematic classification of. Now frequently with into. Also intransitive. Cf. class v. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > arrange by kind [verb (transitive)]

divide1551

categorize1705

classify1776

1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy viii. 94 The garden is large and well situated, planted and classified [Ger. eingerichtet] according to the two chief systems.

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. 531 The diseases and casualties are not scientifically classified.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxii. 151 Swedenborg had learnt to classify in his earthly studies.

1817 N. Amer. Rev. May 80 The consideration of colour in classifying minerals, is of some importance, and it would be of still more, if an appropriate nomenclature were adapted to the several varieties of colour, which occur in minerals.

1875 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 98/1 The mail matter can be classified into letters, daily papers, other printed matter, and express parcels.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. ii. ii. iii. 90 Vogelsang has proposed to classify this type [sc. Porphyritic] in three divisions.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xix. 211 The intersections of the faces on three on more crystallographic axes..are selected to coincide as far as possible with the axes of symmetry, and are used to classify crystals into seven systems.

1954 W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry iv. 179 Male homosexuals are frequently classified into the active and the passive type; female homosexuals into the masculine and feminine.

1980 R. Fox Red Lamp of Incest vii. 173 We love to classify, but we love also to put negative rules on the things so classified.

1998 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. a24 A scale ranging from F0 to F5 which is used to classify tornadoes based on the damage they cause.

2. transitive. To place in a particular class, esp. to assign to a position within a formal system of classification. Cf. class v. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > include [verb (transitive)] > in a class, description, or reckoning

accounta1464

lap1552

include1575

shroud1593

comprise1597

list1622

classicate1654

classa1658

distribute1664

to run over ——1724

immerse1734

group1759

compute1818

classify1854

count1857

to ring in1916

1854 B. St. John Purple Tints Paris II. vii. 153 When your husband..buys books or classifies shells.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 92 To classify a type of character as good or bad.

1929 Times 31 Oct. 16/1 Finland may minimize her own risks to avoid being classified as ‘East European’.

1955 E. Neaverson Stratigr. Palaeontol. (ed. 2) xiv. 574 The theropods are specialized types, Velociraptor and Saurornithoides, the latter being classified as a coelurid.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 22 Feb. 421/1 (table) This disorder should be classified with the reticuloendothelioses.

2004 New Yorker 2 Feb. 5/2 When sport-utility vehicles were created, the Big Three automakers sold them as people movers, but prevailed upon the government to classify them as trucks.

3. intransitive. To undergo classification; to be placed in a particular class; to be classed as.

ΚΠ

1896 Bk. News Sept. 6/2 Where letters are an incident of national life, they classify as easily as taxes or the census.

1910 C. W. Sawyer Firearms in Amer. Hist. 177 They classify as single-shot, two-shot, three-shot, four-shot, and so forth.

1913 H. H. Robinson San Franciscan Volcanic Field v. 139 If the corrected values for the iron are used, it classifies as decose-akerose-tonalose-andose.

1976 R. Berendzen et al. Man discovers Galaxies iii. vi. 157 Galactic nebulae classify readily.

2001 Independent 11 Jan. i. 5/2 In what must classify as one of the most peculiar cases in English legal history, Mr Bethell wore not a stitch during the five-day trial.

4. transitive. Chiefly U.S. To designate (a document, information, etc.) as officially secret.

ΚΠ

1949 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 70/2 Congress has given our military authorities wide discretion to make secret, or to ‘classify’, whatever seems necessary in the interests of national security.

1961 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 10/1 It was more effective to classify specific critical information than to attempt broad restrictions on exterior views, photographs, and the like.

1992 M. A. Blanchard Revolutionary Sparks 431 Previous presidents, including Richard Nixon, had sought to limit the number of individuals able to classify documents.

2008 Times (Nexis) 26 June 15 In Britain the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, an arm of MI5, classifies the information because of a possible risk of terrorist attack.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	classify
释义	classifyv. Brit. /ˈklasᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈklæsəˌfaɪ/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin classis , -fy suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin classis class n. + -fy suffix. Compare French classifier to arrange in or analyse into classes (1781 (in the passage translated in quot. 1789 at classified adj.¹ 1a) in this sense, in past participle classifiés (plural); 16th cent. in an isolated attestation in Middle French as clacyfier in sense ‘to establish (a text) on the basis of classifications’), post-classical Latin classificare to distribute in classes (in an undated Hungarian source), and also German klassifizieren (1767 as †klaßificiren ; also †klassificiren ), Swedish klassificera (1752), Danish klassificere (1753), Italian classificare (1797), all in sense ‘to arrange in or analyse into classes’. Compare earlier class v. 1. transitive. To arrange in or analyse into classes according to shared qualities or characteristics; to make a formal or systematic classification of. Now frequently with into. Also intransitive. Cf. class v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > arrange by kind [verb (transitive)] divide1551 categorize1705 classify1776 1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy viii. 94 The garden is large and well situated, planted and classified [Ger. eingerichtet] according to the two chief systems. 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. 531 The diseases and casualties are not scientifically classified. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lxii. 151 Swedenborg had learnt to classify in his earthly studies. 1817 N. Amer. Rev. May 80 The consideration of colour in classifying minerals, is of some importance, and it would be of still more, if an appropriate nomenclature were adapted to the several varieties of colour, which occur in minerals. 1875 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 98/1 The mail matter can be classified into letters, daily papers, other printed matter, and express parcels. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. ii. ii. iii. 90 Vogelsang has proposed to classify this type [sc. Porphyritic] in three divisions. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xix. 211 The intersections of the faces on three on more crystallographic axes..are selected to coincide as far as possible with the axes of symmetry, and are used to classify crystals into seven systems. 1954 W. Mayer-Gross et al. Clin. Psychiatry iv. 179 Male homosexuals are frequently classified into the active and the passive type; female homosexuals into the masculine and feminine. 1980 R. Fox Red Lamp of Incest vii. 173 We love to classify, but we love also to put negative rules on the things so classified. 1998 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. a24 A scale ranging from F0 to F5 which is used to classify tornadoes based on the damage they cause. 2. transitive. To place in a particular class, esp. to assign to a position within a formal system of classification. Cf. class v. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > include [verb (transitive)] > in a class, description, or reckoning accounta1464 lap1552 include1575 shroud1593 comprise1597 list1622 classicate1654 classa1658 distribute1664 to run over ——1724 immerse1734 group1759 compute1818 classify1854 count1857 to ring in1916 1854 B. St. John Purple Tints Paris II. vii. 153 When your husband..buys books or classifies shells. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 92 To classify a type of character as good or bad. 1929 Times 31 Oct. 16/1 Finland may minimize her own risks to avoid being classified as ‘East European’. 1955 E. Neaverson Stratigr. Palaeontol. (ed. 2) xiv. 574 The theropods are specialized types, Velociraptor and Saurornithoides, the latter being classified as a coelurid. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 22 Feb. 421/1 (table) This disorder should be classified with the reticuloendothelioses. 2004 New Yorker 2 Feb. 5/2 When sport-utility vehicles were created, the Big Three automakers sold them as people movers, but prevailed upon the government to classify them as trucks. 3. intransitive. To undergo classification; to be placed in a particular class; to be classed as. ΚΠ 1896 Bk. News Sept. 6/2 Where letters are an incident of national life, they classify as easily as taxes or the census. 1910 C. W. Sawyer Firearms in Amer. Hist. 177 They classify as single-shot, two-shot, three-shot, four-shot, and so forth. 1913 H. H. Robinson San Franciscan Volcanic Field v. 139 If the corrected values for the iron are used, it classifies as decose-akerose-tonalose-andose. 1976 R. Berendzen et al. Man discovers Galaxies iii. vi. 157 Galactic nebulae classify readily. 2001 Independent 11 Jan. i. 5/2 In what must classify as one of the most peculiar cases in English legal history, Mr Bethell wore not a stitch during the five-day trial. 4. transitive. Chiefly U.S. To designate (a document, information, etc.) as officially secret. ΚΠ 1949 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 70/2 Congress has given our military authorities wide discretion to make secret, or to ‘classify’, whatever seems necessary in the interests of national security. 1961 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 10/1 It was more effective to classify specific critical information than to attempt broad restrictions on exterior views, photographs, and the like. 1992 M. A. Blanchard Revolutionary Sparks 431 Previous presidents, including Richard Nixon, had sought to limit the number of individuals able to classify documents. 2008 Times (Nexis) 26 June 15 In Britain the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, an arm of MI5, classifies the information because of a possible risk of terrorist attack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1776
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