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v. - Place into or assign to a group or class.

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  • You might say "categorise" in Britain and I think you'd definitely say "categorize" in the USA, but Canada can swing both ways.
  • They're difficult to categorise which is FINE but pretty much rules them out of being 'pop' instantaneously really ...
  • The research showed that babies who heard words were better able to 'categorise' pictures than those who simply heard tones.
  • The research showed that babies who heard words were better able to "categorise" pictures than those who simply heard tones.
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