Definition of classify

verb (v)

• arrange or order by classes or categories (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out
  

  Example:
  How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?.
  

  source: wordnet30
• declare unavailable, as for security reasons (verb.social)

  Antonym: declassify
  

  Example:
  Classify these documents.
  

  source: wordnet30
• assign to a class or kind (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: relegate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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