What's the difference between classify and stratify?

Classify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
  • (2) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
  • (3) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
  • (4) The psychiatric experts classified 11 of the perpetrators as "normal," 3 as abnormal, and 2 as psychotic.
  • (5) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
  • (6) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (7) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
  • (8) However, the level of sequence identity between B. nodosus 351 pilin and pilin from strain 265 of serogroup H1 is lower than anticipated for strains within a serogroup and suggests that B. nodosus 265 and B. nodosus 351 should not be classified within the same serogroup.
  • (9) HCT were classified by light microscopy as benign (n = 22), intermediate (n = 30), and malignant (n = 13).
  • (10) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
  • (11) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
  • (12) The distribution of MR values in the 84 Parkinsonian patients classified as extensive metabolisers (EM) showed a less efficient oxidative rate when compared with controls of the same phenotype (p less than 0.001).
  • (13) It remains to be seen, whether the small number and sterility causes were coincidental or manifest themselves in future, especially, if the sterility concerned can be classified as idiopathic.
  • (14) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
  • (15) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
  • (16) Based on incorporation of radioactively labeled N-ethylmaleimide, the readily reactive thiol groups of isolated myosin (EC 3.6.1.3) from fast, slow and cardiac muscles could be classified into 3 types.
  • (17) Only 1.1 percent of birth weights would have been incorrectly classified into low or normal birth weight categories based on maternal reporting.
  • (18) Based on their localisation and histology these are classified into three types (Epstein's pearls, Bohn's nodules, Dental lamina cysts).
  • (19) Dental patients were classified by experienced dentists as MPD or non-MPD patients.
  • (20) So PC.1 is properly classified as a differentiation alloantigen.

Stratify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Proliferating cells were abundant and scattered throughout the stratified epithelium before the appearance of villi.
  • (2) Cation concentrations were determined in a stratified subsample (n = 89) of the study group.
  • (3) It is a pluri-stratified squamous layer which has some epithelial features (desmosomes and tonofilaments), and lacks connective tissue fibers in the extracellular spaces.
  • (4) Urothelial cells form organoid stratified epithelium.
  • (5) Lactobacillus strains of numerous species isolated from several animal sources exhibited cellular hydrophobicities that differed from those expected on the basis of their abilities to colonize the keratinizing stratified squamous epithelium in the mouse stomach.
  • (6) The movement of the heart reduces stratified inhomogeneity.
  • (7) These studies have therefore identified a constitutive viral promoter which is active throughout stratified epithelium as well as a novel promoter which is induced upon epithelial cell differentiation.
  • (8) It was previously reported that rat keratinocytes grown at the air-liquid interface on collagen gels or on nylon membranes produce multilayered cultures of uniformly stratified cells, comparable to the epidermis in situ by morphological and biochemical criteria.
  • (9) A cross-sectional survey of an age-stratified random sample of 619 independently-living adults (307 males, 312 females) aged 60 years and over, living in Toronto was conducted.
  • (10) This study compares the ages of menarche with ages of first intercourse among adolescent females in 1971 and 1976, stratified by ethnic group and residence (urban versus rural).
  • (11) There was no significant difference when patients were stratified for diabetes (log rank = 2.213, p = no significance [NS]), operative indication (disabling claudication vs. limb salvage) (log rank = 0.0005, p = NS), or outflow (no profundaplasty vs. profundaplasty) (log rank = 2.011, p = NS).
  • (12) This difference persisted stratifying women with gallstones and those in the control group for age.
  • (13) An analysis of all patients, stratified for tumor size, revealed an impact of transfusions on increasing recurrence (P = .007) and decreasing survival (P = .016).
  • (14) The effect of varying degrees of hyperglycaemia on insulin secretion was studied in newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetic patients, stratified according to the fasting plasma glucose values.
  • (15) To control for possible confounding variables, the authors repeated the analyses after stratifying by demographic and diagnostic variables that were distributed differently among men and women.
  • (16) It can be concluded that (i) stratified inhomogeneity in distal alveolar space does not exhibit a limiting factor of oxygen uptake in lungs, (ii) a contribution of stratificational effects to sloping alveolar plateau is expected to be of minor importance.
  • (17) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
  • (18) Stratified analyses showed that this increased risk for clinical disease among smokers was evident at all levels of occlusion, even among women with minimal stenotic disease.
  • (19) Barrett's esophagus is a condition in which the stratified squamous epithelium of the esophagus is replaced by metaplastic columnar epithelium that predisposes to the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma.
  • (20) The prevalence of diabetes and obesity were assessed in an age- and sex-stratified sample of 1078 individuals living in Mahé, The Republic of Seychelles.

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