categorization love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of placing in a category or list; a classification.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a group of things arranged by category; a classification
  • noun the process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
  • noun the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
  • noun a group of people or things arranged by class or category

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Examples

  • Umeda states that this categorization is not unreasonable.

    Global Voices in English » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part One) 2009

  • In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation.

    January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

  • In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation.

    Successors « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

  • However, the historian María de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi suggests that "the linguistic categorization is somewhat misleading" partly because "the majority of indigenous peoples in Oaxaca identify more closely with their village or their community than with their ethnolinguistic group."

    The indigenous people of Oaxaca 2008

  • However, the historian María de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi suggests that "the linguistic categorization is somewhat misleading" partly because "the majority of indigenous peoples in Oaxaca identify more closely with their village or their community than with their ethnolinguistic group."

    Indigenous Mexico: an overview 2008

  • Before we answer that, it needs to be pointed out that, especially in the past century, such overarching categorization is ignoring a lot — neo-this and - that, jazz-classical hybrids, various nationalist styles, that whole Hindemith thing, &c.

    Odometer Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • However, the historian María de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi suggests that "the linguistic categorization is somewhat misleading" partly because "the majority of indigenous peoples in Oaxaca identify more closely with their village or their community than with their ethnolinguistic group."

    The indigenous people of Oaxaca 2008

  • However, the historian María de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi suggests that "the linguistic categorization is somewhat misleading" partly because "the majority of indigenous peoples in Oaxaca identify more closely with their village or their community than with their ethnolinguistic group."

    Indigenous Mexico: an overview 2008

  • Before we answer that, it needs to be pointed out that, especially in the past century, such overarching categorization is ignoring a lot — neo-this and - that, jazz-classical hybrids, various nationalist styles, that whole Hindemith thing, &c.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • I'm not a big believer in categorization, my own self, except in the sense of "I read a book (x-- let's pick War for the Oaks, as for many people it's * the* type example of what they mean when they say" urban fantasy ") and I loved it; what else can I read that's like War for the Oaks?"

    There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvish-- fjm 2007

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