The definition of the word category

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Noun	1.	category — a collection of things sharing a common attribute; «there are two classes of detergents» substitution class, paradigm — the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) brass family — (music) the family of brass instruments violin family — (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments stamp — a type or class; «more men of his stamp are needed» declension — a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; «the first declension in Latin» conjugation — a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms denomination — a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; «he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations» histocompatibility complex — a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response superphylum — (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass
	2.	category — a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme kind, sort, form, variety — a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; «sculpture is a form of art»; «what kinds of desserts are there?» pigeonhole — a specific (often simplistic) category rubric — category name; «it is usually discussed under the rubric of `functional obesity'» way — a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of’; «they didn’t have much in the way of clothing»

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category

noun class, grouping, heading, head, order, sort, list, department, type, division, section, rank, grade, classification The entries were organised into six different catagories.

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category

noun

A subdivision of a larger group:

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What do we mean by category?

A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class. noun

A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially. noun

Aristotle’s modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in everything. noun

Kant’s modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge. noun

A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy. noun

A property or structural unit of a language, such as a part of speech or a type of phrase. noun

A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb. noun

A class of objects, together with a class of morphisms between those objects, and an associative composition rule for those morphisms. Categories are used to study a wide variety of mathematical constructions in a similar way. noun

In logic, a highest notion, especially one derived from the logical analysis of the forms of proposition. noun

A summum genus, or widest class. noun

Any very wide and distinctive class; any comprehensive division or class of persons or things. noun

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. noun

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament. noun

A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. noun

A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative. noun

A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme noun

A collection of things sharing a common attribute noun

A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

N. A cat that has been runover, shot, or experienced something that would make it’s innards become outtards. Urban Dictionary

I know you are bored! You are soo bored that you are searching every word you see. I’m bored too, don’t worry! Urban Dictionary

A section of similar items created in order to maintain organization. Urban Dictionary

The expression used when something / someone cannot be categorised within a ranked category due to its awesomeness. Can also be abbreviated as OOC. Urban Dictionary

Testicles come in few shapes, more sizes and even more levels of maintenance and cleanliness. Balls have been arranged into categories by people who care about what they put in their mouths. They are defined as follows
Category 1- The creme de la creme of bollocks. Tight, defuzzed, cleaned with some kind of soap and good sized.
Category 2- Trimmed, wiped with a wet flannel and either slightly large or slightly small. A slight smell of sweat is OK, terrible smell will shunt you down to category 4.
Category 3- Untamed, lynxed to within an inch of their lives, size indistinguishable under the ‘fro.
Category 4- Scrotum appears to have space for at least 4 more testicles, overpowering rank scent of stale sweat and ignorant of all hair removal methods.
Category 5- Alien nards. Something weird or horrifying, like an extra one, or ropey veins all over. Urban Dictionary

Mids-lowest grade, good for starters but once you start getting into good shit such as KB and Headies you dont want to go back
Kb- kind bud or very descent bud. it tends to be a very good tasting intermediate weed
Headies- best kind of bud you can get, best smelling and tasting…the highlight of your life. Tends to be very very crystalline. gets you really fucked up Urban Dictionary

The Milk Category or Anal Milk Category, is an expanse of the human psyche in which the most rampantly fucked up, confuckulated, heavily-medicated, coked-up, what the fuck were you thinkin, holy-motherfucking-shit, and get the fuck outta my face with that shit- thoughts are banished after being spawned from the inner depths of the human soul.
Common subjects usually assigned to the Milk Category are violent beatings, prison rapings, belligerent homosexual ass fucking, skeet, and strangely uncomfortable fucked up and/or confuckulated statements in general. Urban Dictionary

A person who gets pissed off when a Myspace friend puts them in a friend category. Urban Dictionary

Generally,all farts can be classified into seven basic categories:
1) a fizz
2) a fuzz
3) a fizzy fuzz
4) a fuzzy fizz
5) a rip-shit
6) a tear-ass
7) a poooooh Urban Dictionary

CAT 4, Category 4
— A military recruit who scores between 16 and 30 on the AFQT
— Capable of walking, shooting his rifle, and dying
-One whom, predominatly has a GED level education or lower Urban Dictionary

For information about Wiktionary categories, see Wiktionary:Categorization.

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Etymology[edit]

Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin catēgoria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkætɪɡ(ə)ɹi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛtɘɡ(ɘ)ɹi/, /ˈkɛtɘˌɡoːɹi/
• Hyphenation: cat‧e‧go‧ry,

cat‧e‧gory

Noun[edit]

category (plural categories)

1. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories of various types. Thus, words like boy, girl, man, woman, etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category of Nouns, whereas words like a, the, this, and that are traditionally said to belong to the category of Determiners.

   This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.

   I wouldn’t put this book in the same category as the author’s first novel.

2. (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

   • 1995, Michael Barr; Charles Wells, Category Theory for Computing Science‎^[1], 2nd edition, University Press, Cambridge, Great Britain: Prentice Hall, §2.8.9, page 46:

     The use of the word ‘factor’ shows the explicit intention of categorists to work with functions in an algebraic manner: a category is an algebra of functions.

   One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.

   Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation «on top of it» which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation «on top of it» which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category‘s composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object’s set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.

Synonyms[edit]

• (group to which items are assigned): class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type
• See also Thesaurus:class

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Further reading[edit]

• category in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “category”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CATEGORY

From Late Latin catēgoria, from Greek katēgoria, from kategorein to accuse, assert.

PRONUNCIATION OF CATEGORY

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CATEGORY

Category is a noun.

WHAT DOES CATEGORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of category in the English dictionary

The first definition of category in the dictionary is a class or group of things, people, etc, possessing some quality or qualities in common; a division in a system of classification. Other definition of category is any one of the most basic classes into which objects and concepts can be analysed. Category is also any one of ten most fundamental modes of being, such as quantity, quality, and substance.

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