MEANING
To assign items to groups according to shared characteristics or stated rules.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- categorize responses
- categorize by age
- categorize as high risk
On the page
The researchers categorized responses by the reason given for leaving school.
Should this expenditure be categorized as maintenance or investment?
A rigid scheme may categorize mixed identities inaccurately.
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Word forms
- Base
- categorize / categorizes
- Past tense
- categorized
- Past participle
- categorized
- Present participle
- categorizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- categorize / categorizes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are categorizing
- Present perfect
- have/has categorized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been categorizing
- Past
- categorized
- Past continuous
- was/were categorizing
- Past perfect
- had categorized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been categorizing
- Future
- will categorize / categorizes
- Future continuous
- will be categorizing
- Future perfect
- will have categorized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been categorizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Categories depend on the purpose and criteria of the analysis; naming a group does not prove its members are identical. British spelling: categorise. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: categorize, categorizes, categorized, categorized, categorizing. British spelling and inflections: categorise, categorises, categorised, categorised, categorising. Derived family (not inflections): categorization, category.
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