CATEGORISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does categorise mean? 

• CATEGORISE (verb)
  The verb CATEGORISE has 1 sense:

1. place into or assign to a category

  Familiarity information: CATEGORISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATEGORISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they categorise    ... he / she / it categorises   
Past simple: categorised   
Past participle: categorised   
-ing form: categorising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place into or assign to a category

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

categorise; categorize

Context example:

Children learn early on to categorize

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

 Context examples 

Categorising patients into one of these groups helps oncologists choose an appropriate treatment, with some groups requiring more aggressive therapy than others.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)

To address this uncertainty, researchers assessed the association between overall carbohydrate intake (categorised by quantiles) and all cause-mortality after adjusting for age, sex, race, total energy intake, education, exercise, income level, smoking, and diabetes.

(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)