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Stratified   /strˈætəfˌaɪd/   Listen
Stratified

adjective
1.
Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks.  Synonyms: graded, ranked.
2.
Deposited or arranged in horizontal layers.  Synonym: bedded.
3.
(used of society) socially hierarchical.  Synonym: class-conscious.


Stratify

verb
(past & past part. stratified; pres. part. stratifying)
1.
Divide society into social classes or castes.
2.
Form layers or strata.
3.
Develop different social levels, classes, or castes.
4.
Form, arrange, or deposit in layers.  "The rock was stratified by the force of the water" , "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses"
5.
Render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand.



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"Stratified" Quotes from Famous Books



... substance of the hills had happened to have cooled, under suitable conditions, from the molten state into a sort of slag or volcanic glass, which is the obsidian in question; and, in places, this vitreous lava—from one layer having flowed over another which was already cool—was regularly stratified. ...
— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor
... stratified epithelium. The superficial layers of the cells composing it are hard and horny, while the deeper layers are soft and protoplasmic. These latter form the so-called ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks
... regions of water and of air; and if this being should busy himself in investigating the structure of the globe, he might frame theories the exact converse of those usually adopted by human philosophers. He might infer that the stratified rocks, containing shells and other organic remains, were the oldest of created things, belonging to some original and nascent state of the planet. 'Of these masses' he might say, 'whether they consist of loose ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various
... existed as an ancient ocean, skirted by unknown lands. I had not yet collected enough of geologic fact to enable me to grapple with the difficulties of a restoration of the more ancient time. There was a later period, also, represented in the immediate neighbourhood by a thick deposit of stratified sand, of which I knew as little as of the conglomerate. We dug into it, in founding a thrashing-mill, for about ten feet, but came to no bottom; and I could see that it formed the subsoil of the valley all around the policies of Conon-side, and underlay most of its fields and woods. It was ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... ten to several hundred million years. In that time the stratified rocks have been deposited under water, the land and sea have taken their present configurations; the atmosphere has been purified; plants and animals have spread all over the surface. Man has probably been from twenty to a hundred ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro


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