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What is the verb for category?

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categorise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of categorize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “How can we categorise the blogosphere and where do common generalisations fall down or turn into misconceptions?”
      “It's been referred to as world music, flamenco, Spanish guitar, folk, etc, so how would you categorise it?”
      “She's the 19-year-old author of a wilfully eccentric, impossible to categorise debut album.”
categorize
  1. (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The need to properly categorize, inventory and secure the massive number of garments and shoes must have taxed their resources and creativity.”
      “Thus the user of the straw man fallacy exposes their own tendency to incorrectly categorize their opponent.”
      “Our various classification systems adopt a certain framework within which to categorize and view something.”
categorized
categorises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of categorise
  2. Examples:
    1. “It categorises climate by balancing the rainfall, potential evapotranspiration and soil water-holding capacity.”
      “The Clean Neighbourhoods Bill categorises light pollution alongside litter, flyposting, abandoned cars, noise and fly-tipping.”
      “While genes determine the basic neuroanatomic organisation of the brain, the internal model that categorises experience develops gradually as the child grows.”
categorizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of categorize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Searle generally categorizes such examples as indirect speech, whereas Habermas does not count them as communicative action.”
      “All organizations with an infosec program must have a strategy that categorizes their organization's risks.”
      “The flash point of styrene is 32°C, which categorizes UP Resins as flammable liquids.”
categorised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of categorise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Without warning she experienced a grand mal seizure followed by a profound behavioural change categorised as symptomatic of mania.”
      “As well as being categorised by geographical location, blogs are also grouped by category.”
      “Once a conquering hero, he is categorised as a dangerous freedom fighter by the country's brutal new Communist regime.”
categorizing
  1. present participle of categorize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The main consideration when categorizing foods as sattvic, rajasic, or tamasic is their effect on the human organism.”
      “Likewise, categorizing data also helps prioritize and ensure the recoverability of data based on its value to the business.”
      “In North America, it's so unremarkable that you needn't waste any time categorizing it.”
categorising
  1. present participle of categorise
  2. Examples:
    1. “You have to make a cut at categorising these things and it is a matter of judgment rather than following a rigid rule book in many cases.”
      “So what now, do I start categorising debts into subsections?”
      “Linnaeus' work revolutionised bird taxonomy by assigning every species a binomial name, categorising them into different genera.”
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