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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

... easily achieved intellectually, requiring only keen observation and the power of imitation. Dramatic interpretation, on the other hand, deals mainly with the phase of human nature which is not exterior—the interior force of the character. We would classify these two departments in this way, though in the highest dramatic work elements of both phases are combined. Pantomime is more essential to the development of impersonation, but dramatic interpretation gathers power from the psychological appreciation ...

— Expressive Voice Culture - Including the Emerson System • Jessie Eldridge Southwick

... Comedie, save in one or two remote instances. They must have been included in order to make one more room in the gigantic mansion which the author had planned. His seventh sense of subdivision saw here fresh material to classify. And so these grim, almost sardonic essays were placed where they ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... We classify these under the heads of political, civil, and human rights. The result of the whole policy was to degrade the Irish to the level of the wretched helots under Sparta, with this difference: while the slaves of the Lacedaemonians numbered but a few thousands, ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... can, it appears to me, best be derived from a study of its mathematical expression. This is, according to the notation of Professor Boole, x^{2}x. As such, it presents a fundamental equation of thought, and it is because it is of the second degree that we classify in pairs or opposites. This equation can only be satisfied by assigning to x the value of 1 or 0. The "universal type ...

— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton

... feverishly. Capital made telling use of this to bolster its impaired position in the public mind. While "pot called kettle black," the city suffered. The visitation of some strange disease, which certain physicians hastened to classify as bubonic plague, very nearly brought the untold evils of a quarantine. A famous sanitarian from the East decided it was due to rats. He came and slew his hundred-thousands of the rodents. Meanwhile the malady had ceased. But there ...

— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman

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