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categorized

categorized

3.6
Placed into groups with the same features
  • adjective
  • /ˈkætəɡəˌraɪzd/
  • US
translation icon : clasificado
  • Each one of those muscle fibers can be broadly categorized as either fast twitch or slow twitch.

So let's get into what my categorized essentials are.

Examples

  • But he has basically categorized every food anywhere in the world into one of four classes.

  • So things like short term disaster relief, things like long term development aid, all of those things can be categorized as interventions.

  • Let me say a little bit, first of all, about the way scholars have categorized the history of Greece.

  • She is a woman who looks very white but is categorized as black in that system of the South.

  • I'm sure this is categorized as a children's book.

  • So we've now categorized the first form of primary bonding.

  • Do you tend to view various things that might be categorized as potential stress stimuli?

  • Because what I realized is that black women's activism had been kind of categorized into these types.

  • I was diagnosed with a form of RP called Tulip one which is extremely rare and it is categorized as severe early onset blindness.

  • The teacher categorized the books on the shelf by genre, including fiction, non-fiction, and biographies.

Synonyms

organized
vscategorized
  • US
19 2.0

Having things in order so they are easy to find

focuses on grouping by shared characteristics rather than overall system
classified
vscategorized
1 4.4

Organized into groups by type or level

places items into groups by shared characteristics
grouped
vscategorized
2.0

Put together in sets of similar things or people

places items into groups by shared characteristics
sorted
vscategorized
1.8

Put into groups or in a clear order

puts items into groups by shared characteristics rather than by order

How Organized

organized
  • US
19 2.0
classified
1 4.4
categorized
  • US
3.6
grouped
2.0
unsorted
1 3.9

Surface Forms

categorized positive

Morphology

categorized = categorize (transparent) = category + ize + ed

The adjective/past participle is a regular -ed form of the productive verb 'categorize'.

Etymology

Categorized comes from the simpler word category, which means 'a group' or 'a class'. With the ending -ize ('to make') and -ed ('done'), it means 'made into groups', so categorized means 'arranged into groups by shared features'.