Meaning & use
digitalised
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“digitalised” is a form of “digitalize”. See that entry for the full set of meanings.
Meanings
verbtransitiveBritish
Changed information, records or systems into a form that computers can store and use.
Grammar: Past participle of 'digitalise'; very often passive: something was digitalised by someone.
Patterns
- digitalise something
- something is digitalised
- digitalise records/data/archives
The hospital has digitalised millions of patient records.
Once the photographs were digitalised, they could be shared online.
Our school digitalised its whole library catalogue last year.
verbtransitiveBritishbusiness
Moved a company or organization to working mainly with computers and online tools.
Grammar: Takes an object, often a business or service: digitalise the process.
Patterns
- digitalise a business
- digitalise a process
- digitalise the way something works
The bank digitalised its loan process to cut waiting times.
Small shops that digitalised early coped better during the closures.
Word forms
| base form (British) | digitalise |
|---|---|
| base form (American) | digitalize |
| third person singular | digitalises |
| past tense | digitalised |
| past participle | digitalised |
| -ing form | digitalising |
Common combinations
- fully digitalised
- The archive is now fully digitalised and searchable.
- digitalised records
- Digitalised records are easier to back up.
- digitalise a process
- They plan to digitalise the whole application process.
- be digitalised for the first time
- These old films were digitalised for the first time in 2019.
Synonyms and how they differ
- digitized
- The American spelling of the same word; use it in US texts.
- computerized
- Suggests machines or computers now do the work, but it does not always mean the information itself was converted.
Opposites
Word family
- digitalise verb
- British spelling of the base verb.
- digitalisation noun
- The British noun for the process of making things digital.
- digital adjective
- Stored or shown as electronic numbers.
Commonly confused: digitalised or digitalized?
digitalised vs digitalized
Same meaning, American spelling. Choose one spelling and keep it consistent in a piece of writing.
Practice
Choose the sentence that uses 'digitalised' correctly.
Choose one answer.
'Digitalise' is transitive and takes a direct object, so 'digitalised all its paper maps' is correct. Option 2 wrongly adds 'was', option 3 adds 'to' before the object, and option 4 ends with an ungrammatical extra phrase.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “digitalised”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.