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Stratified   /strˈætəfˌaɪd/   Listen
Stratified

adjective
1.
Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks.  Synonyms: graded, ranked.
2.
Deposited or arranged in horizontal layers.  Synonym: bedded.  Antonym: unstratified.
3.
(used of society) socially hierarchical.  Synonym: class-conscious.


Stratify

verb
(past & past part. stratified; pres. part. stratifying)
1.
Divide society into social classes or castes.
2.
Form layers or strata.
3.
Develop different social levels, classes, or castes.
4.
Form, arrange, or deposit in layers.  "The rock was stratified by the force of the water" , "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses"
5.
Render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand.



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"Stratified" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first that creation of matter preceded arrangement. It was chaos—void—without form—darkness; arrangement was a subsequent work. The world was not created in the form it was to have; it was to be moulded, shaped, stratified, coaled, mountained, valleyed, subsequently. All of ...
— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren
... to herself, "why can't he always be nice like that! He seems to be a queer kind of stratified rock; you never know what you are going ...
— Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin
... bleak and acid dried apple pie of Maine to the irrigated mince pie of the blue Pacific, all along down the long line of igneous, volcanic and stratified pie, America, the land of the freedom bird with the high instep to his nose, ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... with, and about the third year we started making crosses between different varieties. The first year we obtained quite a few crosses, and had a good number of these seeds to germinate in the spring after taking from stratified storage and planting them in the nursery row. These trees have now started to come into bearing, and they promise to be better than their parents ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various
... of their graves. Imagination sees Delphi with the eyes of a Greek, Jerusalem with the eyes of a Crusader, Paris with the eyes of a Jacobin, and Arcadia with the eyes of a Euphuist. The prime function of imagination is to see our whole orderly system of life as a pile of stratified revolutions. In spite of all revolutionaries it must be said that the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts ...
— The Defendant • G.K. Chesterton


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