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English
Etymology
From French classifier. By surface analysis, class + -ify.
Pronunciation
Verb
classify (third-person singular simple present classifies, present participle classifying, simple past and past participle classified)
- to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
- to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
They decided to classify that information.
- To make classy
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Translations
identify or divide into classes
- Arabic: صَنَّفَ (ṣannafa), قَسَّمَ (qassama)
- Armenian: դասակարգել (hy) (dasakargel), դասդասել (hy) (dasdasel)
- Asturian: clasificar
- Belarusian: класіфікава́ць impf or pf (klasifikavácʹ)
- Bulgarian: класифицирам (bg) (klasificiram)
- Catalan: classificar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 分類／分类 (zh) (fēnlèi), 分等 (fēnděng)
- Czech: klasifikovat (cs)
- Danish: klassificere
- Dutch: rangschikken (nl), classificeren (nl)
- Esperanto: klasifiki
- Estonian: klassifitseerima, liigitama
- Finnish: luokitella (fi), jäsentää (fi), lajitella (fi), ryhmittää (fi)
- French: classifier (fr)
- Galician: clasificar (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: einordnen (de), einstufen (de), unterteilen (de), klassifizieren (de)
- Hungarian: osztályoz (hu)
- Ido: klasigar (io)
- Indonesian: mengelaskan (id), mengklasifikasi (id), mengklasifikasikan (id), mengelompokkan (id)
- Irish: rangaigh
- Japanese: 分類する (ja) (bunrui suru)
- Khmer: ចាត់ថ្នាក់ (cat thnak)
- Latin: discribō
- Latvian: klasificēt
- Malay: mengelaskan, mengklasifikasikan
- Maori: whakarōpū, kōmaka
- Mongolian: ангилах (mn) (angilax)
- Persian: نوعردن (fa), سانردن (fa)
- Polish: klasyfikować (pl)
- Portuguese: classificar (pt)
- Romanian: clasifica (ro)
- Russian: классифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (klassificírovatʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: razvrstati (sh), klasificirati (sh)
- Spanish: clasificar (es), encasillar (es)
- Swahili: -ainisha (sw)
- Swedish: klassificera (sv)
- Thai: จำแนก (th)
- Ukrainian: класифікува́ти impf or pf (klasyfikuváty)
- Vietnamese: phân loại (vi)
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See also
Further reading
- “classify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “classify”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.