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/klˈæsəfˌaɪd/ Listen

verb

Classify v. t. (past & past part. classified; pres. part. classifying) To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

Synonyms: To arrange; distribute; rank.

adjective

classified adj.

Arranged into classes or categories. Antonym: unclassified.

Synonyms: categorized.

Assigned to a class of documents withheld from general circulation; of information or documents. Opposite of unclassified. Note: (Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential; restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret)

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Etymology of 'Classified'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Classified" Quotes from Famous Books

... who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. For what is the result of all these, except what we know as well without them, that the human figure preeminently and peculiarly is made in the ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... They are generally classified as Christians. But they protest, you know. Protesto, protestare, verb, active, first conjugation. 'Mi pare che la donna protesta troppo,' as the poet sings. They're Christians, but they protest against the Pope ...

— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland

... over the houses, but not the people or animals. I felt that the smallest child would know more about books than I did; and there was hardly a nondescript face to be seen. All could be classified in historic Scottish types. But the whitewashed, thatched cottages in the suburbs would have looked Irish if they had not been too preternaturally clean. In the streets of Newton-Stewart there was not so much as a stray stick or bit of paper. It looked to me a deeply religious place, ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... different species. It is further probable, that there exist several other species of wild asses in the Thibetian and Tartar countries of Asia—and also in the vast unknown territories of North-eastern Africa—yet to be classified and described; for it may be here observed that a monograph of the horse tribe alone, fully describing the different species and breeds, would occupy the whole ...

— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid

... are the theological arrangement of belief which for the present seems best; it is the systematic arrangement of facts so far examined, determined, and classified. But no system of theology can be final. Thought is moving on. Experience is progressive. Providence is continually revealing. The race is a creed-builder, as well as a builder of pyramids, cathedrals, ...

— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown

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