Definition of Classify

to group things or people together in categories based on things they have in common

Examples of Classify in a sentence

The teacher had her students classify all the shapes with less than four sides in one basket and the shapes with more than four or more sides in another.  🔊

Because the information was important, the government decided to classify several of the documents as top-secret.  🔊

Because he scored very high on his IQ test, the school decided to classify the student as “gifted”.  🔊

Science students will classify rocks by sorting them by shape and by size.  🔊

All of the survey takers were asked to classify themselves by gender and selected either male or female.  🔊

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