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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.

Declare unavailable, as for security reasons.

Assign to a class or kind. Synonym: relegate. "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

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... one else criticized his appearance his resentment would have blazed, but he could make voluntary admissions. The shopkeeper's curiosity was somewhat piqued by a manner of speech and appearance which, were, to him, new, and which he could not classify. His first impression of the boy in the stained suit, slouch hat, and patched overcoat, was much the same as that which the Pullman porter had mentally summed up as, "Po' white trash"; but the Yiddish shopman ...

— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... has been partly realized. Much has been done since 1912, when General Lyautey was appointed Resident-General, to clear up and classify the history of Moroccan art; but since 1914, though the work has never been dropped, it has necessarily been much delayed, especially as regards its published record; and as yet only a few monographs and articles have summed up some ...

— In Morocco • Edith Wharton

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— The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 9, September, 1889 • Various

... the General repeated, with unshaken conviction: "a thoroughbred gentleman." And he scanned Philip up and down with his keen grey eye as if internally reflecting that Philip's own right to criticise and classify that particular species of humanity was a trifle doubtful. "I should much like to make a captain of hussars of him. He'd be splendid as a leader of irregular horse; the very man for a scrimmage!" For the General's one idea when he saw a fine specimen of ...

— The British Barbarians • Grant Allen

... all but the anointed, is dangerous and uncertain, but even so, the author cannot forbear attempting to prevision the architecture likely to arise from the wrecks and sediment left by the war. As a basis for this forecast it is necessary first of all briefly to classify the expression of the building impulse from what may be called the psychological point ...

— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon

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