classify > define
verb
- Arrange or order by classes or categories.
- usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
- Declare unavailable, as for security reasons.
- usage: "Classify these documents"
- Assign to a class or kind.
- usage: "How should algae be classified"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"
- synonyms: relegate
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(v.t.) To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary