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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLASSIFY, v.t. To make a class or classes; to distribute into classes; to arrange in sets according to some common properties or characters.
The diseases and casualties are not scientifically classified.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate]
2: declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents" [ant: declassify]
3: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn: relegate, classify]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Date: 1799 1. to arrange in classes <classifying books according to subject matter> 2. to assign (as a document) to a category • classifiable adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 a arrange in classes or categories. b assign (a thing) to a class or category. 2 designate as officially secret or not for general disclosure. Derivatives: classifiable adj. classification n. classificatory adj. classifier n. Etymology: back-form. f. classification f. F (as CLASS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Classify Clas"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & pp. Classified; p. pr. & vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + ?] To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. Syn: To arrange; distibute; rank.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(classifies, classifying, classified) To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group. It is necessary initially to classify the headaches into certain types... The coroner immediately classified his death as a suicide. = categorize VERB: V n, V n as n • classification (classifications) ...the British Board of Film Classification. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Arrange, class, distribute, distribution, group, form into classes, reduce to order.

Moby Thesaurus

alphabetize, analyze, appraise, arrange, assess, assort, bolt, bosom, break down, catalog, categorize, class, codify, collate, conceal, digest, divide, evaluate, factor, file, file and forget, gauge, gradate, grade, group, hold out on, identify, in petto, index, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under wraps, list, make no sign, never let on, not give away, not tell, order, pigeonhole, place, play dumb, range, rank, rate, riddle, screen, secrete, separate, sieve, sift, size, sort, sort out, subdivide, subordinate, tabulate, thrash out, type, veil, weigh, winnow, withhold