stratify
Verb
Verb Forms: stratified, stratifying, stratifies
- To form or arrange in layers or strata.
- divide society into social classes or castes
- form layers or strata
- develop different social levels, classes, or castes
- form, arrange, or deposit in layers
- render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand
- "stratify seeds"
- To become separated out into distinct layers or strata.
- To separate out into distinct layers or strata.
Examples
- A good Scrabble player can stratify their rack, keeping high-value letters for future bingos.
- Even without a pronounced social class system, people in a large society tend to stratify.
- In this cut you can see how the sedimentary rock layers have been clearly stratified.
Origin / Etymology
From French stratifier.
Scrabble Score: 14
stratify: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstratify: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stratify: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
stratify: valid Words With Friends Word