different between classify vs tabulate

English

Etymology

From French classifier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?klæs.?.fa?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs.??fa?/

Verb

classify (third-person singular simple present classifies, present participle classifying, simple past and past participle classified)

1. to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize

2. to declare something a secret, especially a government secret

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:classify

Antonyms

• (to declare a secret): declassify

Related terms

• class
• classification

Translations

See also

• arrange
• distribute
• rank

Further reading

• classify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• classify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology 1

table +? -ate; compare Late Latin tabul?tus (“having a floor; floored”), perfect passive participle of tabul? (“to fit with planks”) + -?tus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-eh?tos (suffix forming adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or a quality). Tabul? is derived from tabula (“board, plank”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh?- (a variant of *steh?- (“to stand”)) + *-d?lom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæbj?le?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tæbju??le?t/, /-j?-/
• Hyphenation: ta?bul?ate

Verb

tabulate (third-person singular simple present tabulates, present participle tabulating, simple past and past participle tabulated)

1. (transitive) To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
2. (transitive) To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list.

   Synonyms: recite; see also Thesaurus:tick off

3. (transitive, Scotland, obsolete) To enter into an official register or roll.

   Synonyms: enroll; see also Thesaurus:enlist

4. (transitive) To shape with a flat surface.

Hyponyms

• cross-tabulate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

tabulate (plural tabulates)

1. (pharmacy, obsolete) A pill, a tablet.

Etymology 2

Tabulata (“extinct order of corals”) +? -ate. Tabulata is derived from Latin tabul?ta, from tabul?tum (“flooring, storey”), from tabula (“board, plank”) + -tum (from -tus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tus (“suffix forming action nouns from verb roots”)). See further at etymology 1. The order is so named because the corals are characterized by having tabulae.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæbj?l?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tæbju?l?t/, /-j?-/
• Hyphenation: ta?bul?ate

Adjective

tabulate (not comparable)

1. (paleontology) Describing a member of an extinct order of corals, the Tabulata: having tabulae (well-developed horizontal internal partitions within each cell).

Derived terms

• holotabulate

Translations

Noun

tabulate (plural tabulates)

1. (paleontology) A member of the order Tabulata.

Translations

References

Further reading

• table (information) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tabulata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

tabulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of tabulare
2. second-person plural imperative of tabulare
3. feminine plural of tabulato

Latin

Adjective

tabul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of tabul?tus