Difference between Categorised and Classified

What is the difference between Categorised and Classified?

Categorised as a verb is to assign a category; to divide into classes. while Classified as a verb is to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize

Categorised

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To assign a category; to divide into classes.

Classified

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A classified advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: National security information formally assigned by governments to one of several levels of sensitivity, usually (in English) top secret, secret, confidential, and, in some countries, restricted; thereby making disclosure to unauthorized persons illegal.Any information a person or organization does not wish to disclose.

Example sentence: The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

We hope you now know whether to use Categorised or Classified in your sentence.

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