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Stratify

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Verb

1. stratify

divide society into social classes or castes

Example Sentences:
'Income distribution often stratifies a society'

2. stratify

form layers or strata

Example Sentences:
'The rock stratifies'

3. stratify

develop different social levels, classes, or castes

Example Sentences:
'Society stratifies when the income gap widens'

4. stratify

form, arrange, or deposit in layers

Example Sentences:
'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'

5. stratify

render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand

Example Sentences:
'stratify seeds'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Stratify

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verb -fies, -fying or -fied
1. 
to form or be formed in layers or strata
2. (transitive)
to preserve or render fertile (seeds) by storing between layers of sand or earth
3. sociology
to divide (a society) into horizontal status groups or (of a society) to develop such groups

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Stratify

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈstratiˌfied or ˈstratiˌfying
1. 
to form or arrange in layers or strata
2. 
to preserve (seeds) by placing them between layers of moisture-retaining soil, peat moss, etc.
3. 
to classify or separate (people) into groups graded according to status as variously determined by birth, income, education, etc.
verb intransitive
4. 
to become stratified

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Stratify

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v. strat·i·fied, strat·i·fy·ing, strat·i·fies
v.tr.
1. To form, arrange, or deposit in layers.
2. To prepare (seeds) for germination by storing them under cold, moist conditions.
3.
a. To arrange or separate into castes, classes, or social levels.
b. To separate into a sequence of graded status levels.
v.intr.
1. To become layered; form strata.
2. To develop different levels of caste, class, privilege, or status.

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