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At least, this is how most people in this field, including the organizers of this event, seems to classify it.

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Quick take

arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

verb

declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents"

verb

assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for classify.

verb

arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

verb

declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents"

verb

assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

Example sentences

At least, this is how most people in this field, including the organizers of this event, seems to classify it.

Refuse to classify team members who are not actually "occasionally misses" as such.

For months now, the Like button has been completely broken on any sites that classify themselves as og:type product.

All Pandora has to do, and you better believe they did in order to write an article like this, is classify an unknown artist that sounds like Coldplay into the system.

This sounds impressive, but having a bunch of racks able to classify the outline of a face is vastly disconnected from machine and humanity merging.

I would classify this as the most rational "insider alarmist" version of the anti-unbundling argument.

I classify this as a parser using regular expressions rather than parsing using regular expressions.

There are so many un-elected people who have jobs for life and also the ability to classify broad swaths of information that the incentives are all set to increasing amounts of classified data.

On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route all known bad traffic to the Microsoft sinkhole and classify the identified threats.