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Classify

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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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Categorize 76% connected

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

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Restrict 76% connected

Restricted.

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Manner of action 14

Catalog 76% connected

Catalogue.

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Catalogue 76% connected

A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of b…

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Dichotomize 76% connected

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

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Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Isolate 76% connected

To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Pigeonhole 76% connected

A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartm…

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Size 76% connected

Six.

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Stereotype 76% connected

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, use…

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Unitize 76% connected

To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.

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Derivationally related 4

Classification 74% connected

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affi…

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Classification 74% connected

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affi…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Relegation 74% connected

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

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Relegation 74% connected

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

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Entails 1

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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Synonym 5

Assort 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Class 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Relegate 92% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Separate 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sort 92% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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