Oh my word Classified, Declassified, Unclassified

Oh my word Classified, Declassified, Unclassified
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They used to make pickles, squashes, jams, curry powders and canned pineapples. And banana jam (illegally) after the FPO (Food Products Organization) banned it because according to their specifications it was neither jam or jelly. Too thin for jelly and too thick for jam. An ambiguous, unclassifiable consistency, they said.” –The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

“They used to make pickles, squashes, jams, curry powders and canned pineapples. And banana jam (illegally) after the FPO (Food Products Organization) banned it because according to their specifications it was neither jam or jelly. Too thin for jelly and too thick for jam. An ambiguous, unclassifiable consistency, they said.” –The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Classified is usually an attributive adjective. Classified directory such as Yellow Pages lists the names of people, their services and their contact numbers classified under different headings: builders, tailors & drapers, electricians, masons…

Classified advertisements (classified ads) are small advertisements placed in the newspapers, magazines and websites by people who wantto sell or buy things, want a service or advertising a service, to employ someone, to find a job. Classified ads are the bread and butter of many newspapers.

Classified means officially declared something as secretive by the government body or agency and that information is known only to few officials (not to all the citizens). Every government across the world has some classified information on something related to the State.

When classified information is declassified it becomes news!

The State’s secrets are classified information and classified documents that are accessible only to few.The exact opposite of classified information is declassification. Declassify is a verb, it means when a government decides that certain information to be no longer secret (usually with the passage of time, or as a result of demand from certain sections of the civil society or due to change of government).

When certain topics are raised by the political parties in the Opposition in democratic countries, the ruling party (the government) has the right not to disclose the classified information because it will be in the national interest not to reveal.

The government can decide to declassify information on its nuclear plants, its overt enemies (internal and external) among others. The variants of the verb declassify are declassifies, declassified, declassification; and the declassification is a noun.

Everything is classified according to certain indicators. Life forms are classified: flora and fauna. There are certain things that could not be classified such as certain insects, plants and animals because they could be discovered recently. Such things, and that are not possible to classify are called unclassified (not classified).

Botanists and entomologists conduct field surveys to discover new species or unknown species and to classify them. The world is relentlessly striving to classify everything on Earth into one or the other category; and human beings are also classified: nationality, religion, caste,

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