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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.  Antonym: unstratified.
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



... judge at a distance from the appearance of the rocks, Stolbovoj consisted of stratified rocks, Ljachoff's Island, on the contrary, like the mainland opposite, of high hills, much shattered, probably formed of Plutonic stone-masses. Between these there are extensive plains, which, according to a statement by the land ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold
... found any number of seedlings on my ground from nuts dropped from the plants and not gathered or destroyed by mice or squirrels so I know the seed or nuts will readily grow. Nuts can be sown in the fall quite successfully providing they are safe from mice, otherwise they should be stratified and kept from freezing during the winter. I will leave this subject now and call attention to the hazel or filbert orchard. If the planting of such an orchard is planned, the soil and location should be well considered. Ordinary farm land well worked and fairly well manured and ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting - Washington, D. C. October 7 AND 8, 1920 • Various
... for instance, that a toad has hibernated for a million years in any one of the stratified rocks near the surface of the ground, we interpose the objection that none of these batrachian forms can exist for a period of more than twelve months without air and food. And yet they have been blasted out of cavities ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright
... rocks in places that are almost inaccessible. In some instances they can only be reached by steps cut into the solid rock, which are so old and worn that they are almost obliterated. Their walls so nearly resemble the stratified rocks upon which they stand, that they are not easily ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk
... Mono Indians of the California Mountains (93): "The dirt on their faces was fairly stratified, and seemed so ancient and so undisturbed it might also possess a geological significance." Navajo girls "usually evince a catlike aversion to water." (Schoolcraft, IV., 214.) Cozzens relates (128) how, among the Apaches, "the sight of a man washing his face and hands almost convulsed them ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck


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