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say it: STRAT-uh-fahy
stratify is a verb meaning "divide society into social classes or castes". It carries 5 recorded senses.
divide society into social classes or castes
“Income distribution often stratifies a society”
develop different social levels, classes, or castes
“Society stratifies when the income gap widens”
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”
render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand
“stratify seeds”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stratify come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.