classify

verb
/ˈklæs.ɪ.faɪ/UK/ˈklæs.əˌfaɪ/US

Etymology

From French classifier. By surface analysis, class + -ify.

  1. derived from classifier

Definitions

  1. to identify by or divide into classes

    to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize

    • Should we classify "make up" as an idiom or as a phrasal verb?
  2. to declare something a secret, especially a government secret

    • They decided to classify that information.
  3. To make classy

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at classify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01classify02categorize03category04composition05mixture06diverse07minorities08minority09subgroup

A definitional loop anchored at classify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at classify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA