verb · academic
categorize
/ˈkætəɡəraɪz/CAT·e·go·rize
to place items into groups or categories according to shared features
Examples
“For clarity, categorize the comments by topic before writing the report.”
“The answers were categorized by severity and then analysed.”
“In Task 1 it helps to categorize similar data points together.”
Band 8 sentence
“To simplify analysis, the researcher categorized the 200 open-ended responses into four thematic groups.”
Collocations
- categorize responses
- categorize into groups
- categorize by type
Word family
Common mistakes
We categorized many answers into same group.→We categorized many answers into the same group.
They categorize by topics yesterday.→They categorized by topics yesterday.
We categorize about the replies.→We categorize the replies.
Say it for a higher band
5group→6sort→7+categorize
Synonyms
classify
group
Easily confused
classify
“Librarians classify books according to the Dewey Decimal System.”
group
“We grouped the students by ability for the activity.”
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