categorize

For information about Wiktionary categories, see Wiktionary:Categorization.

English

Alternative forms

categorise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From category +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəɡəˌɹaɪz/, /ˈkætəɡɔˌɹaɪz/

Verb

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

(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

Related terms

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

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

Portuguese

Verb

categorize

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