Classify
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
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Classify Quotations
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti
I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
John Frankenheimer
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
Bobby Jindal
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
Larry Wall
We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.
Mike Gordon
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
Pedro Almodovar
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy
Classify Translations
classify in Dutch is classificeren, indelen
classify in French is classent, classez, classifier, classifient
classify in German is klassifizieren
classify in Portuguese is classifique
classify in Spanish is clasificar
classify in Swedish is indela (i klasser)
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