(v. t.) To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(2) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
(3) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(4) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(5) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
(6) Studies of barbiturate and benzodiazepine self-administration are categorized by species and route of administration.
(7) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
(8) Long-standing providers preferred a categorical approach in order to maintain a diverse political coalition for an historically invisible service.
(9) I categorically never said that ‘Britain has so many paedophiles because it has so many Asian men’.” She added that it was “totally untrue” that she had threatened to “take this inquiry down with me”, and absolutely rejected being rude and abusive to junior staff.
(10) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
(11) To understand "what is going on" within an S&M episode, one must know something about the culture of the group and how it defines and categorized people and behavior.
(12) The categorization does not yield diagnoses, as there are multiple etiologies within each category.
(13) The patients were categorized according to DSM-III as suffering from either minor depression (including dysthymic disorder, 300.40; adjustment disorder with depressed mood, 309.00; atypical depression, 296.82) or major depression (without melancholia, 296.X2; with melancholia, 296.X3; with psychotic features, 296.X4).
(14) An age and prevalence study of the categorized disc showed that, with age, the disc undergoes an architectural transformation from WD through IM to ID.
(15) Ninety-two percent of responses were categorized as "ineffective" (i.e., not communicating own or sibling's feelings).
(16) ANCA-associated vasculitides can be categorized into a number of distinctive clinicopathologic categories, eg, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, pulmonary renal syndrome, microscopic polyarteritis nodosa, leukocytoclastic angiitis, and necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis.
(17) Severe iritis which occurs within the first five days after cataract extraction may be categorized as (1) bacterial endophthalmitis, (2) toxic iritis, or (3) aseptic iritis.
(18) Categorization of the pattern of physiologic abnormalities in patients with asbestos-associated disease may be important for clinical, compensation, and epidemiologic reasons.
(19) In addition, the observers categorized the proteins into three groups for purposes of analysis: a) those associated with the follicular phase of the cycle; b) those associated with the luteal phase; and c) those not cycle-related.
(20) A review of the studies shows that animal demonstrate categorical perception of the voicing and place features.
Pigeonhole
Definition:
(n.) A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.
(v. t.) To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
(2) If we cease to aim for the universal pigeonholing of viruses into genera and species, binomial latinized names lose their chief justification.
(3) Minty, 46, sees humour as a powerful tool to relax people about an awkward subject, and is determined that the podcast should not be pigeonholed as "earnest" or "lecturey".
(4) It had been dubbed "the female answer to The Hangover" – a niche women's film – but to pigeonhole it in such a way is to do it a huge disservice.
(5) I want to have the freedom to work on many issues and not be pigeonholed into one particular area,” Carson, who is Trump’s most prominent African American supporter, told the Washington Post .
(6) He's pigeonholing women into the traditional role of motherhood, nurturing and marriage.
(7) In contrast to Amis's glittering literary career, Howard has for years been unfairly pigeonholed as someone who writes nice domestic dramas for the middle classes: not intellectual enough to be a Murdoch or Woolf or sufficiently populist to get to the top of the Amazon bestseller lists.
(8) Like those artists, Miguel refuses to be pigeonholed.
(9) "I don't really believe in standardised sexual pigeonholes," says Kaboom's hero Smith, whom Araki describes as "ambisexual".
(10) Her diva demands do not extend beyond the stage-door staff voluntarily leaving a hand-picked packet of her favourite black liquorice allsorts in her pigeonhole.
(11) "We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor."
(12) In order to delegitimise the camp, lots of passersby I met wanted to pigeonhole the protesters as either unrealistic youngsters, or lazy layabouts.
(13) There is no magic policy bullet that will get the party more ethnic minority votes – non-white voters aren't a homogenous group, and don't want to be pigeonholed.
(14) "Notes were left in my pigeonhole at college, there were Facebook messages," she said.
(15) So it was that, one sad afternoon at university, a woman I am still close to sobbed into my chest inside the ladies loos along the corridor from the college pigeonholes.
(16) This specific electronic nature of DNA take the form of magnetic pigeonholes in which an electric pulse is (0), or is not (1) stored as an area of local magnetisation.
(17) Betty Birch London SW6 Pigeonholed by your name My son born, brought up and educated in England, speaks only English, his mother tongue (my wife is English).
(18) Honestly, I’m pretty conventional.” As far back as he can remember, people have tried to pigeonhole him, just as they did his father.
(19) It is so easy and tempting to knock this into a pigeonhole: the misguided self-blame and denial of the victim.
(20) He's made it obvious in the past that he doesn't enjoy interviews, and hates the way that journalists pigeonhole.