STRATIFY (stratified)

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Irregular inflected form: stratified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stratify mean? 

• STRATIFY (verb)
  The verb STRATIFY has 5 senses:

1. divide society into social classes or castes

2. form layers or strata

3. develop different social levels, classes, or castes

4. form, arrange, or deposit in layers

5. render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand

  Familiarity information: STRATIFY used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRATIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stratify    ... he / she / it stratifies   
Past simple: stratified   
Past participle: stratified   
-ing form: stratifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divide society into social classes or castes

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Income distribution often stratifies a society

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

differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart (mark as different)

Verb group:

stratify (develop different social levels, classes, or castes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata)

stratification (the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group)

stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form layers or strata

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The rock stratifies

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

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Verb group:

stratify (form, arrange, or deposit in layers)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (forming or depositing in layers)

stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Develop different social levels, classes, or castes

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Society stratifies when the income gap widens

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

stratify (divide society into social classes or castes)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

stratification (the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata)

stratification (the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Form, arrange, or deposit in layers

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Verb group:

stratify (render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand)

stratify (form layers or strata)

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

interstratify (arrange rocks in alternating strata)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (forming or depositing in layers)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

stratify seeds

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

fecundate; fertilise; fertilize; inseminate (introduce semen into (a female))

Verb group:

stratify (form, arrange, or deposit in layers)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

stratification (the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination)

 Context examples 

The epithelium of the ectocervix, which consists of nonkeratinized, stratified squamous cells.

(Cervix Squamous Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of a single or multiple cysts lined with parakeratinized stratified squamous epithelium.

(Keratocystic Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the keratinization of stratified squamous epithelia.

(Involucrin, NCI Thesaurus)

Half desmosomes that occur on the basal surface of the stratum basalis of stratified squamous epithelium.

(Hemidesmosome, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, it is characterized by the presence of fibrovascular cores covered by mature stratified squamous epithelium.

(Esophageal Squamous Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

The papillary structures are covered with stratified squamous epithelium.

(Cervical Condyloma Acuminatum, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of a connective tissue core covered by stratified squamous epithelium.

(Oropharyngeal Squamous Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

An epithelial cell, found in the bladder, originally thought to represent a transitional form between stratified squamous and columnar epithelial cells.

(Bladder Urothelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The transparent anterior portion of the fibrous coat of the eye consisting of five layers: stratified squamous epithelium, Bowman's membrane, stroma, Descemet's membrane, and mesenchymal endothelium.

(Murine Cornea, NCI Thesaurus)

The epithelium of the bronchus of the lung, which forms a pseudo-stratified ciliated layer composed of secretory and basal cells.

(Bronchial Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)