Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put into a system; arrange according to a plan or scheme: synonym: arrange.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to system or method; methodize; arrange in, or in accordance with, a system; construct a system, as of classification in natural history. Also spelled
systematise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
arrange into asystematic order .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange according to a system or reduce to a system
Etymologies
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Examples
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This kind of systematize friendly touch keeps my world in orbit.
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A religion must be something by which to "systematize" human life.
Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839
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I prefer a definition of racism that labels someone a racist who supports any system that would use race to systematize the distribution of social rewards, whether wealth, education, honors, status, whatever.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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Big companies spend millions of dollars seeking to systematize, streamline and automate tasks that previously required individual human effort and expertise.
Bill Liao: The Rise Of The Virtual Cyborg Bill Liao 2011
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Change, Inc. was established by Rauschenberg and his accountant, Rubin Gorewitz, to systematize the artist's habitual generosity, which consisted largely of simply handing out cash to people who needed it.
Daniel Grant: Emergency Relief Funds Help Artists in Dire Need Daniel Grant 2011
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The French physiocrat Quesnay depicted an economy as a flow analogous to human circulation -- an attempt to systematize economics and perhaps to compare it to the most experimentally "scientific" of fields available in Quesnay's day -- medicine.
Teaching Un-Normal Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Whereas in the early days of the internet companies pretty much threw up a website and hoped for the best, Web 2.0 casts a much wider net and enables the marketer to literally systematize and automate the lead generation process.
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Big companies spend millions of dollars seeking to systematize, streamline and automate tasks that previously required individual human effort and expertise.
Bill Liao: The Rise Of The Virtual Cyborg Bill Liao 2011
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Somehow we have to organize — systematize — knowledge to the point that we can build on it — compute from it.
Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009
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She aimed to add rigor and substance to the "impressions" that her audience held of various subjects or, as she wrote, "to turn these impressions into thoughts, & systematize these thoughts."
Let Them Be Sea Captains! Melanie Kirkpatrick 2012
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