CATEGORISE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they categorise ... he / she / it categorises

Past simple: categorised

Past participle: categorised

-ing form: categorising

Meaning:

Place into or assign to a category

Example:

Children learn early on to categorize

Synonyms:

categorise; categorize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "categorise" is one way to...):

reason (think logically)

"Categorise" entails doing...:

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "categorise"):

assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out (arrange or order by classes or categories)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody