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categorizing

categorizing is the present participle and gerund of categorize.

Meaning of categorize

Verb

categorize (third-person singular simple present categorizes, present participle categorizing, simple past and past participle categorized)

  1. (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.
    • First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.

Questions about categorizing

What is categorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Categorizing is the present participle and gerund of categorize.

Words near categorizing in the dictionary

  1. categorize
  2. categorized
  3. categorizer
  4. categorizers
  5. categorizes
  6. categorizing
  7. category
  8. category error
  9. category errors
  10. category five
  11. category fraud

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Adapted from Wiktionary: categorizing (page history and authors); categorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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