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Stratify   Listen
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Stratify  v. t.  (past & past part. stratified; pres. part. stratifying)  To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stratify" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mississippi Valley was beginning to stratify, both socially and geographically. As the railroads pushed across the mountains, the tide of New England and New York colonists and German immigrants sought the basin of the Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi. A distinct zone, ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner

... country estates, building houses and stables which will make it easy to entertain their friends, and depending for society on chosen guests rather than on the mob of millionaires who come together for social rivalry. But I do not fret myself about it. Society will stratify itself according to the laws of social gravitation. It will take a generation or two more, perhaps, to arrange the strata by precipitation and settlement, but we can always depend on one principle to govern the arrangement of the layers. People interested in the same things will naturally ...
— A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Words linked to "Stratify" :   stratum, separate, distinguish, geology, severalize, change, set, lay, pose, put, secern, tell apart, set up, fecundate, differentiate, arrange, secernate, inseminate, position, stratification, fertilise



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