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Classify Arrange Classes Word Means Klæsɪfaɪ Library Books

Front classify
Pron ['klæsɪfaɪ]
Back 【CLASSIFY】
In a library, books are usually classified by subjects.
在图书馆里,书常按科目分类。
【重点词汇】
classify v. 分类
Vocab
classifyarrange or order by classes or categories

Humans seem to have the need to classify things, arranging them into different classes by such unifying traits as size, color, or shape. It’s fine to do this to inanimate objects, but doing it to people can be very wrong.

The word classify contains the base word class, which means "category" and comes from the Latin classis, which actually referred to an army or group called to arms. It eventually came to mean "a group," and thus classify means "to group." As a security measure, you can also classify information that is not to be shared. Writer Ambrose Bierce once said, “The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.”

All forms of 'classify' will appear on average once every 365 pages.
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