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How to sign: separate into parts or portions
"divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I";
Similiar / Same: divide, split, dissever, carve up, split up
Categories: change integrity
Within this category: Balkanize, canton, format, lot, paragraph, parcel, sectionalize, sliver, subdivide, triangulate, unitize
How to sign: arrange or order by classes or categories
"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?";
Similiar / Same: classify, class, sort out, sort, assort
Categories: categorise, categorize
Within this category: catalogue, count, dichotomize, grade, group, isolate, pigeonhole, reclassify, refer, size, unitize
