If you categorize people or things, you divide them into sets or you say which set they belong to.
例句
Lindsay, like his films, is hard to categorise...林赛这个人和他的电影一样,很难归类。Make a list of your child's toys and then categorise them as sociable or antisocial.把孩子的玩具列个单子,然后将其分为交际型和非交际型两类。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. a group of people or things arranged by class or category
2. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
3. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type