randomize
arrange or choose in random order
To change the order or choice of things so that no one can know what will come next.
to randomize [something]
- The app can randomize the order of the songs so you never hear the same playlist twice.
- Please randomize the questions so students don’t all get them in the same sequence.
- They randomized the list of participants before drawing the winners.
- You can randomize the slides to keep the presentation less predictable.
- The software automatically randomizes the data before analysis.
- Click this button to randomize the playlist.
- The teacher will randomize the questions on the test.
- This tool can randomize the order of the names.
- I like to randomize my workout exercises every day.
- The website will randomize the teams for the game.
assign people to groups randomly
To put people or things into different groups by chance, not by choice, especially in a study or test.
to randomize [participants/patients] into [groups]
- The researchers will randomize 300 patients to receive either the new drug or a placebo.
- Participants were randomized into three groups based on a computer-generated sequence.
- To reduce bias, we randomized the schools before assigning them to the control or intervention conditions.
- Clinicians did not know how the system would randomize each new patient.
- If you fail to properly randomize the sample, your trial results may be unreliable.
- The study will randomize the patients into two groups.
- They used a computer to randomize the students into teams.
- In a good medical test, doctors randomize who gets the new drug.
- The scientist will randomize the plants to different rooms.
- We must randomize the volunteers so the test is fair.
make something messy or chaotic
To make something very messy or mixed up, like it was put in random places.
to randomize [someone’s/something’s] [things/space]
- The kids completely randomized my office while I was on the phone.
- One strong wind was enough to randomize the papers on her desk.
- Please don’t randomize the kitchen drawers again; I just sorted them.
- He likes to randomize the books on the shelf so it looks more "creative."
- Someone randomized all the files on the shared drive, and now no one can find anything.
- The children randomized the living room during the party.
- A big dog ran in and randomized all the papers on the table.
- Don’t randomize my clothes; I like them in order.
- The storm randomized the things in our garden.
- My roommate always randomizes the books on my desk.
- Base: randomize
- 3rd Person Singular: randomizes
- Present Participle: randomizing
- Past: randomized
randomize a playlist
1play songs in random order
To make the songs in a playlist play in a random order.
- I usually randomize a playlist when I go for a run.
- You can randomize a playlist so you don’t always hear the same first song.
- The app lets you randomize a playlist with one tap.
randomize into groups
1divide into groups at random
To put people or things into different groups by using chance.
- The students were randomized into groups for the experiment.
- We will randomize into groups of four to make the teams fair.
- In this study, patients were randomized into groups receiving different doses.
randomize participants
1assign study participants randomly
To put people in a study into different groups by chance, not by choice.
- We will randomize participants before starting the trial.
- The software was used to randomize participants to the three treatment arms.
- Ethics approval was granted before the team began to randomize participants.
randomize questions
1show questions in random order
To change the order of questions so that each person sees them in a different random order.
- Online exams often randomize questions to reduce cheating.
- You can randomize questions in the quiz settings.
- The platform will randomize questions each time a student starts the test.
randomize settings
1set options to random values
To change the options in a program or game so that they are chosen at random.
- You can randomize settings to get a new game experience every time.
- The tool will randomize settings such as theme and layout for testing.
- Some users like to randomize settings and see what happens.
randomize the order
1put items in random sequence
To change the order of things so that the new order is random.
- The teacher chose to randomize the order of the questions for each student.
- You can randomize the order of the slides to make the talk less predictable.
- Click this option to randomize the order of the names before choosing a winner.