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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb stratify has 5 senses
- stratify(v = verb.social) Array - divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society" is one way to differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart
- stratify(v = verb.change) Array - form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies" is one way to arrange, set up
- stratify(v = verb.social) Array - develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens" is one way to change
- stratify(v = verb.contact) Array - form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses" is one way to lay, place, pose, position, put, set
- stratify(v = verb.body) Array - render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds" is one way to fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, inseminate
Derived forms noun stratification1, noun stratification2, noun stratum1
Sample sentences:
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Derived forms noun stratification3, noun stratum1
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Something ----s
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun stratification1, noun stratification2
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Derived form noun stratification3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun stratification5
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
stratify, v. t. [Stratum + -fy: cf. F. stratifier.].
To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stratify, v.tr. (-ies, -ied)
1 (esp. as stratified adj.) arrange in strata.
2 construct in layers, social grades, etc.
1 (esp. as stratified adj.) arrange in strata.
2 construct in layers, social grades, etc.
Derivative
stratification n.
Etymology
F stratifier (as STRATUM)
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