categorize

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English

Alternative forms

• categorise (mainly British)

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 Wikisaurus:classify

Related terms

• category
• categorisation
• categorization

Translations

to assign a category

• Catalan: categoritzar (ca)
• Czech: kategorizovat (cs)
• Danish: kategorisere (da)
• Finnish: luokitella (fi)
• French: classer (fr), classifier (fr), catégoriser (fr)
• German: kategorisieren (de)
• Hebrew: לקטלג (le'qat'leg)

• Icelandic: flokka (is), draga í dilka (is)
• Italian: categorizzare (it)
• Japanese: 分類する (bunrui-suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kategorisere (nb)

  Nynorsk: kategorisere (nn)

• Romanian: categorisi (ro)

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Portuguese

Verb

categorize

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of categorizar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of categorizar
3. third-person singular imperative of categorizar