英语词汇“categorize”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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categorize

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	categorize
	he, she, it	categorizes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	categorized
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have categorized
	he, she, it	has categorized
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had categorized
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will categorize
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have categorized

Continuous Form
Present	I	am categorizing
	he, she, it	is categorizing
	you, we, they	are categorizing
Past	I, he, she, it	was categorizing
	you, we, they	were categorizing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been categorizing
	he, she, it	has been categorizing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been categorizing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be categorizing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been categorizing

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Dali was categorized as a surrealist painter.
Forecasts suggest that by the year 2010, only about 30 percent of U.S. households will be categorized as middle class.
How would you categorize your relationship with your parents?
The hotels are categorized according to the standard of the rooms and services they offer.
The store categorizes records from Asia and Africa as 'World Music'.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Emotions seem to create the ideas which are then categorized.
Language, invented sometime in the last few million years, involves some really fancy abilities for categorizing sounds.
Nouvel's work is difficult to categorize.
The remainder of the population was strictly categorized into four groups.
The tendency to categorize black sportsmen and women differently from the rest is faintly racist and, I believe, totally unnecessary.
These volumes contain poetry which may be categorized generally as a poetry of attitudes, the attitudes being both literary and vital.
We shall categorize the explanations which result as being in different modes.

Longman Language Activatorto put things or people into groups► sort

to arrange a large number of things by putting them into groups, so that you can deal with each group separately: · It takes a couple of hours to sort the mail in the morning.sort something into something: · We sorted all the clothes into two piles - those to be kept, and those to be given away. · The rubbish has to be sorted into things that can be recycled and things that can'tsort something according to something: · The eggs are sorted according to size.

► categorize

also categorise British to decide which group something should belong to, when there is a clear system of separate groups: · Communication involves a variety of behaviours which are difficult to categorise.categorize something according to something: · The hotels are categorized according to the standard of the rooms and services they offer.categorize into: · Words can be categorised into verbs, nouns, adjectives etc. · Animals are categorised into three types - carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.categorize something as something (=say which group it is in): · The store categorizes records from Asia and Africa as 'World Music'.

► classify

to decide what group books, plants, animals etc belong to according to an official or scientific system: · Scientists have discovered a new type of butterfly which has not yet been classified.classify something as: · 43 countries are categorized as "low-income" by the World Bank.· Babies walking later than 18 months were classified as slow walkers.

► be grouped

if people or things are grouped , they have been put into separate groups according to a system: be grouped according to: · The vehicles are grouped according to engine size.be grouped together: · Non-fiction books are grouped together under different subjects.be grouped into: · Most European languages can be grouped into two main families.group something into types/categories/classes etc: · The respondents were grouped into three categories - non-smokers, smokers, and ex-smokers.

► class

to say that people or things belong to a particular group, especially according to an official system: class somebody/something as something: · This prison houses the most dangerous criminals in Britain, those classed as "category A'.· Heroin and cocaine are classed as hard drugs.

► grade

to separate things such as food, drinks, or products into groups according to their quality: · All the fruit is taken to the warehouse where it is graded and packed.· One supermarket now grades its wines on a scale of 1 to 9, from driest to sweetest.

to say that someone or something belongs to a particular type► categorize

also categorise British to decide that someone or something belongs to a particular group of people or things that have similar qualities: categorize somebody/something as something: · Dali was categorized as a surrealist painter.· Forecasts suggest that by the year 2010, only about 30 percent of U.S. households will be categorized as middle class.

► classify

to put things or people into particular groups, especially according to an official or scientific system: classify somebody/something as something: · Carpentry and furniture making are usually classified as skilled trades.classify somebody/something by/according to something: · Wines can be classified according to their sugar content - that is dry, medium or sweet.· Eggs are classified by weight as Extra Large, Large, Medium, Small, and Peewee.

► stereotype

to decide unfairly, that certain people have particular qualities, abilities, or needs, for example because they are of a particular sex, race, or social class: · Teachers often stereotype kids who speak with strong regional accents.stereotype somebody as something: · There is a tendency to stereotype childless women as being hard and career-orientated.

► pigeonhole

to say that someone or something can be described as a particular type or group, in a way that is too simple and therefore unfair: · You shouldn't pigeonhole people according to your first impressions of them.· When your band becomes successful, people immediately try to pigeonhole you, but we're into all kinds of music - dance, rock, jazz, blues.

► under

if you include something under a particular category or heading, you decide that it belongs to that particular group of things: classify/categorize/file/list something under something: · In our library, novels are classified under Crime, Romance, and General.· The Association of British Travel Agents is listed under "Trade Associations and Professional Bodies" in the Yellow Pages.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► as

· Both payments and revenues should be described in detail and categorized as one-off or on-going.· Home banking services are often categorized as basic, intermediate, and advanced.· More than half the total number were categorized as educationally subnormal.· The Soviet Union could not be easily categorized as either presidential or parliamentary.· All the credit arrangements mentioned above are categorized as restricted-use credit.

WORD FAMILYnouncategorycategorizationverbcategorize