Systematize
['sɪstəmə,taɪz] or ['sɪstəmətaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; 'systematize our scientific knowledge'.
Checker: Millicent--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Methodize, arrange, harmonize, regulate, order, reduce to order, put into a systematic form.
Typist: Patricia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Methodize, {reduce_to_a_system}, arrange, regulate, order,[See ABRIDGMENT]
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Examples
- His purpose was to comprehend, to define, to classify t he phenomena of organic and inorganic nature, to systematize the knowledge of his own time. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As soon as speech began to develop, it must have got to work upon such fundamental feelings and begun to systematize them, and keep them in mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At first sight, this definition may seem opposed to the current conception that science is organized or systematized knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Subject matter then becomes a ready-made systematized classification of the facts and principles of the world of nature and man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Edison's systematized attacks on the problem were two in number, the first of which we have just related, which began in September, 1877, and continued until about January, 1878. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The experimental method is new as a scientific resource--as a systematized means of making knowledge, though as old as life as a practical device. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A systematized divided attention expressing the duplicity of the state of desire is the result. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The knowledge of a farmer is systematized in the degree in which he is competent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His was a great systematizing intellect, which has left its imprint on nearly every department of knowledge. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- An interest in discovery took the place of an interest in systematizing and proving received beliefs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a method for systematizing and lending rational sanction to material accepted on authority. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This subject matter meant so much that it vitalized the defining and systematizing brought to bear upon it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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