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stratified   (TTS Sound)

The verb stratify has 5 senses

• stratify -- (divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society")


• stratify -- (form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies")


• stratify -- (develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens")


• stratify -- (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")


• stratify -- (render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds")

The adj stratified has 3 senses

• graded, ranked, stratified -- (arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas of the distribution")


• stratified, bedded -- (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock")


• class-conscious, stratified -- ((used of society) socially hierarchical; "American society is becoming increasingly stratified")