classify
to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
Example
“Should we classify "make up" as an idiom or as a phrasal verb?”
Other meanings
to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
“They decided to classify that information.”
Synonyms
- sort
- sort out
- separate
Related words
- autoclassify
- classifiable
- disclassify
- interclassify
- misclassify
- overclassify
- preclassify
- reclassify
- subclassify
- transclassify
- unclassify
- underclassify
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “classify” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.