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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
category/ˈkatəɡəri/
▶noun (pl. categories)
- 1 a class or division of people or things having particular shared characteristics.
- 2 Philosophy each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
■ each of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions.
– derivatives
categorial adjective.
categorial adjective.
– origin ME: from Fr. catégorie or late L. categoria, from Gk katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’.
'category' also found in these Oxford entries:
aspect
- band
- borderline
- bracket
- catch-all
- catchweight
- categorical
- categorize
- class
- classification
- classified
- classify
- concession
- division
- family
- first-degree
- forma
- genre
- genus
- grey area
- heavyweight
- hypernym
- include
- infraclass
- infraorder
- kingdom
- label
- league
- mood
- non-specific
- of
- order
- over-represent
- part of speech
- person
- phylum
- pigeonhole
- predicament
- second-degree
- section
- somatotype
- sort
- star
- stripe
- subcategory
- subclass
- subfamily
- subgenus
- subkingdom
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A category of old books that include/s
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many in the bottled water category
New "Category Tree" with English Definitions
No products exist (product exists) in this category?
positioned + prepositionIts bigger competitor is not well positioned <for, in, on, ?> this category.
The category is a relief or three-dimensional works.
the category of books
the category of voice which belongs to
the semi-professional <category>
use a countable noun to represent a category
useful 'category of historical analysis'
viable category?
Which is in the upper category, personality or characteristic?
Who/whom: ... you would fall into the category of one <?> would ...
Word category of "that"
Word describing words in a category?
'branch to' the document category settings
A category of old books that include/s
Can a category embrace an appetite? Can an utterance remainl
category tree
Category vs class
category/item/classification
could-do-better category
high-visibility category?
in category XXX or in the XXX category
inspected product category /inspected category of product
keep the heat on its rivals in the category.
many in the bottled water category
New "Category Tree" with English Definitions
No products exist (product exists) in this category?
positioned + prepositionIts bigger competitor is not well positioned <for, in, on, ?> this category.
The category is a relief or three-dimensional works.
the category of books
the category of voice which belongs to
the semi-professional <category>
use a countable noun to represent a category
useful 'category of historical analysis'
viable category?
Which is in the upper category, personality or characteristic?
Who/whom: ... you would fall into the category of one <?> would ...
Word category of "that"
Word describing words in a category?
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