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Categorize

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

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Assort 76% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Class 76% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Classify 76% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Sort 76% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Compare 72% connected

To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to b…

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Beadroll noun · 78% connection

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaple…

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Blacklist verb · 78% connection

To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or…

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Catalogize verb · 78% connection

To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.

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Catalogue verb · 78% connection

To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.

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Categorical adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a category.

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Categories pl. · 78% connection

of Category

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Categorist noun · 78% connection

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.

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Category noun · 78% connection

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.

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Denomination noun · 78% connection

That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a cl…

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Diptych noun · 78% connection

A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the chu…

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Disorganized schizophrenia noun · 78% connection

a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…

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Disorganized type schizophrenia noun · 78% connection

a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and biz…

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Enroll noun · 78% connection

To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leav…

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Form division noun · 78% connection

an artificial taxonomic category for botanic organisms of which the true relationships are obscure; replaced in 1993 by Phylum

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Form family noun · 78% connection

(biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure; ranked between order and genus

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Form genus noun · 78% connection

an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships esp…

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Frequency noun · 78% connection

the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations

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Genus noun · 78% connection

A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly di…

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