Stratify
['strætɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; 'stratify seeds'.
(verb.) form layers or strata; 'The rock stratifies'.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) divide society into social classes or castes; 'Income distribution often stratifies a society'.
(verb.) develop different social levels, classes, or castes; 'Society stratifies when the income gap widens'.
Edited by Davy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
Checker: Lucille
Definition
v.t. to form or lay in strata or layers:—pr.p. strat′ifying; pa.t. and pa.p. strat′ifīed.—adj. Stratic′ulate arranged in thin layers.—n. Stratificā′tion act of stratifying: state of being stratified: process of being arranged in layers.—adj. Strat′iform in the form of strata.
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Examples
- When information is purveyed in chunks simply as information to be retained for its own sake, it tends to stratify over vital experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moreover, he put granite in the same cat egory, and believed it had been injected, as also metalliferous veins, in liquid st ate into the stratified rocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the case of stratified rocks, blocks are separated by hand tools alone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His situation forced his ideal into the notion of a society organized in stratified classes, losing the individual in the class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Attempts also have been made to produce illumination by what is called stratified light produced by the electric discharge passing through tubes containing various gases. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Natalie