stratify : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stratify	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stratify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stratify v divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society" form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies" develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens" 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" render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stratify \Strat"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stratified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stratifying}.] [Stratum + -fy: cf. F. stratifier.] To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.