CEFR B2

categorising

verb

Meaning

Placing items, people, or ideas into specific groups or classes based on shared characteristics.

She is currently categorising the survey results to identify common customer complaints.
The software excels at categorising large datasets into meaningful clusters.

Synonyms: sorting, grouping, classifying, cataloging

verb

Pronunciation: ˈkætəɡəraɪzɪŋ

Placing items, people, or ideas into specific groups or classes based on shared characteristics.

She is currently categorising the survey results to identify common customer complaints.
The software excels at categorising large datasets into meaningful clusters.
Historians have struggled with categorising the complex social movements of the late twentieth century.

categorising into (prepositional phrase): dividing items into specific groups — "He is categorising the books into fiction and non-fiction."
categorising as (prepositional phrase): labeling something as a specific type — "The report is categorising the error as a minor technical glitch."

Words with a similar meaning to categorising: