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systematizing

systematizing is the present participle and gerund of systematize.

Meaning of systematize

Verb

systematize (third-person singular simple present systematizes, present participle systematizing, simple past and past participle systematized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To arrange into a systematic order; to make systematic; to organise as a system.
    • And it will be observed, that the intermediate kinds now, for the first time, systematized, are the most refined, and more closely resemble those which constitute the beauty of pictorial colouring.1845, David Ramsay Hay, The Principles of Beauty in Colouring Systematized, William Blackwood and Sons, page 48
    Synonyms:
    systemize

Noun

systematizing (plural systematizings)

  1. The process by which something is systematized; a systematization.
    • But, with the systematizings of modern commerce, these duplex operations are no longer convenient or profitable; in other words, they are rendered impossible. "Cash" is now the only recognized means of purchase […]1870, Francis Fisher Browne, The Western Monthly, volume 3, page 406
    • THE T’IEN-T’AI SCHOOL
      Many of Su’s closest Buddhist friends belonged to the T’ien-t’ai school of Buddhism. The man who completed the systematizing of the doctrines of the T’ien-t’ai school and is thus regarded as its founder was Chih-i (538-597), who spent most of his teaching life on Mt....1994, Beata Grant, “Buddhism in Eleventh-Century China”, in Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih (Buddhism/Chinese literature), Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii...

Forms of systematizing

pluralsystematizings

Questions about systematizing

What does systematizing mean?
Systematizing means the process by which something is systematized; a systematization.
What is systematizing the present participle and gerund of?
Systematizing is the present participle and gerund of systematize.
What part of speech is systematizing?
Systematizing is a noun.
What is the plural of systematizing?
The plural of systematizing is systematizings.

Words near systematizing in the dictionary

  1. systematize
  2. systematized
  3. systematizer
  4. systematizers
  5. systematizes
  6. systematizing
  7. systematizings
  8. systematological
  9. systematologies
  10. systematology
  11. systemed

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