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Classify

verb

(past & past part. classified; pres. part. classifying)

Arrange or order by classes or categories. Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out.

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Assign to a class or kind. Synonym: relegate. "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

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"Classify" Quotes from Famous Books

... world today is the liar. I honestly believe that lying causes more real anguish and suffering than any other evil. It would be effort wasted to spend much time in proof of this assertion of David's, so we will attempt to classify briefly, that each of us may know where he belongs. First, there is the deliberate lie. This species needs no particular definition. All are acquainted with it, all have met it, some have uttered it. You all know it when ...

— The Jericho Road • W. Bion Adkins

... classify successes and failures by their various degrees of will-power? A man who can resolve vigorously upon a course of action, and turns neither to the right nor to the left, though a paradise tempt him, who keeps his eyes upon the goal, whatever distracts ...

— An Iron Will • Orison Swett Marden

... love! Already have I four large volumes written upon the known varieties of scorpion and now to have been but almost the discoverer of a new variety, it is hard to have been so near. But at least I shall be the first to describe, to classify, that honor you will grant me? It is hard to ...

— A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari - Seven Tales of South-West Africa • Frederick Cornell

... laws, or determined by ever-changing external conditions; and we must give up all enquiry into their origin and causes, since (by the hypothesis) they are dependent on a Will whose motives must ever be unknown to us. But, strange to say, no sooner do we begin to examine and classify the colours of natural objects, than we find that they are intimately related to a variety of other phenomena, and are, like them, strictly subordinated to general laws. I have here attempted to elucidate some of these laws in the case of birds, and have shown how the mode ...

— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

... what are its necessary conditions? I was for a while disposed to answer the first question in the negative, and to admit that the sole practicable employment for the human mind was to observe, to recollect, and to classify. Christianity however is not a theory, or a speculation, but a life—not a philosophy of life, but a life and ...

— The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 • James Gillman

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