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How to sign: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
"sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?";
Similiar / Same: kind, form, variety
Categories: category
Within this category: antitype, art form, brand, color, description, flavor, genre, genus, ilk, manner, model, species, stripe, style, the like, type
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, assort, separate
Categories: categorise, categorize
Within this category: catalogue, count, dichotomize, grade, group, isolate, pigeonhole, reclassify, refer, size, unitize
How to sign: an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
"the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting";
Similiar / Same: sorting
Categories: operation
