categorize

English

Alternative forms

• categorise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From category +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəɡəˌɹaɪz/, /ˈkætəɡɔˌɹaɪz/

Verb

categorize (third-person singular simple present categorizes, present participle categorizing, simple past and past participle categorized)

1. (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.

   First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:classify

Derived terms

• autocategorize
• categorizable
• categorizer
• decategorize
• miscategorize
• overcategorize
• recategorize
• subcategorize
• uncategorize

 

Related terms

• category
• categorisation
• categorization

Translations

to assign a category

• Armenian: դասակարգել (hy) (dasakargel)
• Catalan: categoritzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分類／分类 (zh) (fēnlèi)

• Czech: kategorizovat (cs)
• Danish: kategorisere (da)
• Esperanto: kategoriigi
• Finnish: luokitella (fi)
• French: classer (fr), classifier (fr), catégoriser (fr)
• Galician: categorizar
• German: kategorisieren (de)
• Greek: ταξινομώ (el) (taxinomó), κατηγοριοποιώ (el) (katigoriopoió)
• Hebrew: קטלג (qitlég), סִוֵּג (he) (sivvég)
• Hindi: श्रेणीबद्ध (hi) (śreṇībaddh)
• Icelandic: flokka, draga í dilka
• Ido: klasigar (io), kategoriizar (io)
• Italian: categorizzare (it)
• Japanese: 分類する (ja) (ぶんるいする, bunrui suru)
• Maori: whakarōpū, whakakāwai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kategorisere

  Nynorsk: kategorisere

• Portuguese: categorizar (pt)
• Romanian: categorisi (ro)
• Russian: классифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (klassificírovatʹ), категоризи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kategorizírovatʹ)
• Spanish: categorizar (es)
• Swedish: kategorisera (sv)

Galician

Verb

categorize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of categorizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

categorize

1. inflection of categorizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative