classifying
Putting into categories
Classifying is sorting things into categories based on shared characteristics.
Scientists classify species by evolutionary relationships; librarians classify books by subject.
The work can be methodical or instinctive: She spent the morning classifying receipts by expense type.
In government contexts, classifying information means designating it as secret or restricted.
Arrangement by shared traits
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- arrangingSystematically positioning elements
- orderingPlacing in sequence
- sortingArranging into sequence
systematizing · structuring · prioritizing · indexing · ranking · categorization · filtering · segregating
Assigning to groups
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- typologyClassification by shared traits
- systematicsScience of classifying organisms
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
phylum · kingdom · order · family · genus · species · cladistics · binomial
grouping
Arrangement by shared traits
- organizingSystematically putting in order
- arrangingSystematically positioning elements
- orderingPlacing in sequence
sorting · systematizing · structuring · prioritizing · indexing · ranking · categorization · filtering · segregating · collating
categorizing
Assigning to groups
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- typologyClassification by shared traits
- systematicsScience of classifying organisms
nomenclature · phylum · kingdom · order · family · genus · species · cladistics · binomial · dichotomous
- organizingorganizing, categorizing, grouping, structuring, ordering
- thinking skillslogic, logical thinking, logical reasoning, reasoning, reason
- business proceduresrecording, processing, documenting, approving, verifying
- cataloging termsindexing, listing, archiving, cataloging, filing
- organizing methodssorting, grouping, ranking, ordering, categorizing
- ore processingcrushing, grinding, crushers, flotation, magnetic separation
classifyingdisorganizing
Destroying orderly arrangement
disordering · disarranging · randomizing · scrambling · jumbling
classifyingdeclassifying
Removing secrecy status
releasing · disclosing · unsealing · opening · revealing
classifyingconflating
Merging distinct things together
homogenizing · generalizing · merging · combining · unifying
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