The phrase "assign a category" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to classify or label something within a specific group or type.
Example: "In order to analyze the data effectively, we need to assign a category to each entry based on its characteristics."
Alternatives: "classify into a category" or "label with a category".
"When asked why not enter the note digitally in the first place, he responded, 'Starting in Outlook forces me to make a type assignment, assign a category, set a deadline, and more; that takes too much work!' Similarly, paper notebooks were often chosen instead of laptops because they required no time to boot up".
Just take a photo of the item and assign a category such as furniture or electronics.
From such relations, a statistical discriminant method is used to design a classifier to assign a category to the SSI variation over an area from the cloud properties obtained by satellite observation.
Pollsb lets you create polls and mini-surveys based on text, photo, video and/or audio, assign a category to it, tag it and turn it into a widget (see example below).
Unknown stage refers to neoplasms lacking sufficient or unavailable information with which to assign a category.
We used the peak increase in serum creatinine to assign a category in the RIFLE classification.
"I have been using it for 15 years and every purchase is recorded and assigned a category," like utilities or entertainment, Ms. Heine said.
Any expense must be assigned a category in the reports filed with the elections board, and the campaign treasurer attests to their truthfulness, said Robert Brehm, a spokesman for the board.
All collected images have been assigned a category out of 185 categories in MARVEL dataset.
In similar cases, the territorial function should be more important than actual road features, while assigning a category.
"Put differently, 37% of Facebook users are both assigned a political affinity and say that affinity describes them well, while 14% are both assigned a category and say it does not represent them accurately," it writes.
