Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense categorizes, present participle categorizing, past tense, past participle categorizedregional note: in BRIT, also use categorise
verb
If you categorize people or things, you divide them into sets or you say which set they belong to.
Lindsay, like his films, is hard to categorise. [VERB noun]
Make a list of your child's toys and then categorise them as sociable or antisocial. [VERB noun, VERB noun as noun]
...new ways of categorizing information. [VERB-ing]