Category

Definitions: Category

Synonyms: Category

Synonyms: class (n), family (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Class	Noun: class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.
Quantity	Category, general conception, universal predicament.
Relation	In the same category; like; relevant; (apt); applicable, equiparant.
State	Noun: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect; (appearance), dilemma, pass, predicament.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Because Bootsie Westchester's taste in men ranges from King Kong to Lil' Abner and unfortunately you do not fall into that category! (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason)

Nothing, but getting out of that category of 'friend' is harder than like getting out of Alcatraz. (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman)

Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

I don't think it's any mystery as to which category I fall into. (Bandits; writing credit: Harley Peyton)

What's the category though? (Big Brother; writing credit: Joyce Carol Oates; Joyce Eliason)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	An Introduction to Category Theory (reference) Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (Foundations of Computing) (reference) Category Formation and the History of Religions (reference) Category Management (reference) Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Prime Contract Awards By Service Category And Federal Supply Classification (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Category 5 (reference) Category 5, Vol. 1 [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	DataReady Category 5 Tool Kit (reference) QVS Category 5 Patch Cable - [14 Feet] (reference) CATEGORY B OPERATIONAL S/W 50 (reference) CATEGORY C OPERATIONAL S/W 10 (reference) CATEGORY D OPERATIONAL LICENSE (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Line graph showing AIDS Cases by Exposure Category and Year of Report 1985-1996, United States.Credit: CDC.		Table showing Adult AIDS Cases by Exposure Category Reported in 1996, United States.Credit: CDC.
	Figure 67. Pelometer for the rapid sorting of sediments in water. Professor Julien Thoulet used this device on board research ships to rapidly determine the nature of seafloor sediments. It would allow quick classification into a single category such as mud, sandy silt, or muddy sand for entry into a station log. Thoulet used the pelometer described by Bouquet de la Gyre.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		GOES image of eastern North America. Hurricane Diana, now a category III storm, churns off the coast of North Carolina. Within a few hours this storm became a Category IV before rapidly weakening. Maximum winds at time of photo were 110 knots.Credit: NOAA in Space.
	TIROS-N three dimensional cloud-top image of Hurricane Diana as it was strengthening from a Category III storm to a Category IV storm. This was one of the earliest three dimensional images of a hurricane from data obtained from satellite.Credit: NOAA in Space.		Typhoon damage from a Category 5 typhoon about a week after the storm. Totally wiped out a coconut and breadfruit plantation. Inhabitants dug pit on highest part of island and put coconut logs over pit for shelter. Some fatalities occurred.Credit: Small World.
	Typhoon damage from a Category 5 typhoon about a week after the storm. Totally wiped out a coconut and breadfruit plantation. Inhabitants dug pit on highest part of island and put coconut logs over pit for shelter. Some fatalities occurred.Credit: Small World.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Alexander Solzhenitsyn	In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	For instance, beneath the French criticism of the economic functions of money, they wrote "Alienation of Humanity," and beneath the French criticism of the bourgeois State they wrote "dethronement of the Category of the General," and so forth. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	During a further period of thirty months after the expiration of the first six months, this provision shall continue to be applied exclusively with regard to products which, being comprised in Section A of the First Category of the German Customs Tariff of December 25, 1902, enjoyed at the above-mentioned date (July 31, 1914) rates conventionalised by treaties with the Allied and Associated Powers, with the addition of all kinds of wine and vegetable oils, of artificial silk and of washed or scoured wool whether or not they were the subject of special conventions before July 31, 1914. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		You can scan the news by industry category or company name. (references)
		A fourth category of interventions combines all three of these approaches. (references)
		No family in this category should be made to feel that monitoring is necessary. (references)
Business		The laptop is the leader in this category. (references)
		Many Mexican companies fall into this category. (references)
		Another large category of end-users is the elderly. (references)
Children	Switzerland	Any pornography involving children falls into this category. (references)
Civil Liberties	Korea	Such individuals, as a category, suffered broad discrimination in the past. (references)
	Pakistan	Refugees that do not fit into this category still are denied entry to the country. (references)
Economic History	Singapore	In this category, frozen fries is the dominant product. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	American furniture mostly falls within the latter category. (references)
	Barbados	The cost of the IPS is US$600 per category of business partner. (references)
Human Rights	Costa Rica	The latter category includes acts directed by international criminal organizations involved in terrorism, kidnaping, and trafficking in slaves, women, children, or narcotics. (references)
	Colombia	An August 2000 presidential directive also "raises to the category of law" the 1997 Constitutional Court decision that serious human rights violations and other crimes not directly related to acts of service must be tried by civilian courts. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	On July 6, gendarmes and members of the research brigade, an investigative category of the gendarmes, summoned and questioned Ibrahima Doumbia, vice president of the MIDH, following the publication of a MIDH press release describing the CCER. (references)
Indigenous People	Indonesia	Land disputes represent the largest category of complaints submitted to the National Human Rights Commission and a significant portion of the cases brought to legal aid foundations and other assistance organizations. (references)
Minorities	Armenia	The Government does not discriminate against the small, officially recognized "national" communities, although the economic and social situation of such groups has deteriorated substantially since independence in 1991. The Government includes in the category of "national" communities are Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, Kurds, Yezidis, Georgians, Greeks, and Assyrians. (references)
Political Economy	TAIWAN	National defense is no longer the largest expenditure category. (references)
Trade	Austria	Alcoholic beverages fall into the 20% VAT category. (references)
	France	The "legal consultant" category of lawyer no longer exists in France. (references)
	Kenya	KBS conducts product testing for individual product category and undertakes certification. (references)
Travel	Mexico	Guadalajara and Chapala are in this category. (references)
	Costa Rica	Costa Rica's air safety oversight program is rated Category One. (references)
	Uruguay	A couple of five-star category hotels in Montevideo have been recently inaugurated or renovated. (references)
Women	Latvia	Police do not compile figures for domestic violence as a distinct category. (references)
	Ukraine	However, of the highest "first" category offices, only 8.3 percent were women. (references)
	South Africa	The law also protects persons who have insecure and informal rights and interests in land; many women are in this category. (references)
Worker Rights	Indonesia	It did not set a minimum age for children in this category. (references)
	Dominica	However, most workers (including domestic employees) earn more than the legislated minimum wage for their category. (references)
	Brazil	Local unions legally may affiliate with state federations and national confederations in their professional category. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes -- some of which have a large sale.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Joan Lunden	That would definitely be something I would not do again. I'd probably put that in the category of bungee jumping. Been there, done that, not doing it again.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Category" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Category" is used about 3,216 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.44%	3,198	2,958
Noun (proper)	0.53%	17	85,106
Noun (common)	0.03%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3,216	N/A

Expressions using "category": aircraft category ♦ aircraft use category ♦ category 3 ♦ category 5 ♦ coniferous raw wood category ♦ duty or tax or fee category code ♦ grammatical category ♦ in this category ♦ message category ♦ noise exposure category ♦ precision approach category ♦ prize category ♦ syntactic category ♦ weight category. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "category": Category-b, category-based, category-confusing, category-judgement.
	Ending with "category": sub-category, three-category.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "category"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kategori (class, denomination, grade, group, league, rank, rate, run). (various references)

Arabic		‏فئة (class, denomination, division, grade, group, rate), ‏طبقة (classification, coat, course, deposit, layer, order, place, rank, strata, stratum, streak, tone), ‏صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), ‏بابة. (various references)

Bulgarian		разред (caliber, grade, order, range, rank, rate), категория (bracket, breed, class, division, grade, league, notion, pigeonhole, rank, rate, rating, sort, stripe, value), група (assortment, band, bandwagon, batch, body, clan, cluster, cohort, crowd, gang, group, knot, party, series, set, society, squad, stirps, suite, troop). (various references)

Chinese		部類 (division), 類別 (classification), 類 (class, jaw, kind, like, palate, similar, to resemble, type), 疇 (arable fields, class, cultivated field), 类别 (Categories), 範疇 , 屬 (class, enjoin, family, to belong to). (various references)

Czech		kategorie (class, head, kind, league, predicament). (various references)

Danish		kategori (field), felt (attribute, bay, data item, elementary data item, field, item, panel, switch bay, zone). (various references)

Dutch		categorie. (various references)

Esperanto		kategorio. (various references)

Farsi		مقوله منطقی , مقوله , زمره (Class, Order), طبقه (Bed, Caste, Class, Estate, Genus, Grain, Ilk, Order, Race, Sort, Stage, Story, Stratum), رده (Class, Echelon, Regimen, Tier). (various references)

Finnish		luokka (class, form, grade, rating). (various references)

French		catégorie, classe. (various references)

Frisian		kategory. (various references)

German		kategorie (class, denomination, division, predicament), rubrik (caption, class, column, head, header, heading, rubric, section). (various references)

Greek		κατηγορία (accusation, allegation, charge, class, complaint, kind, league, rap, series). (various references)

Hebrew		קבוצ�" (band, batch, group, squad, team), קט�'ורי�" (prosecution), סו�' (brand, class, denomination, fenced, genus, kind, quality, sort, species, strain, turning aside, type). (various references)

Hungarian		osztály (battalion, class, class apart, department, division, form, rank, rate, rating, remove), kategória (class, grade, head, predicament, rate, rating), fogalomkör. (various references)

Indonesian		kelompok (batch, bevy, clique, group, shock). (various references)

Italian		categoria (class, craft, facet, grade, kind, order, rating). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		部門 (branch, class, department, field, group), 部類 (class, group, heading), 部 (counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine, department, part), 範疇 , 種類 (counter for different sorts of things, kind, type, variety), カツ丼 (breaded pork on rice, cadence, cadenza, catecholamine, cathedral, catheter, Catholic, Catholicism, cottage cheese). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅるい (alcoholic drinks, counter for different sorts of things, kind, type, variety), ぶるい (class, group, heading), ぶも�" (branch, class, department, field, group, military family, samurai's lineage, warrior class), ぶ (chance of winning, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine, department, despise, make light of, odds, one percent, one-hundredth of a shaku, one-quarter of a ryou, part, percentage, rate, thickness), カテゴリー , カテゴリ , は�"ちゅう. (various references)

Korean		종류 (Categories, Class, Classes, sort). (various references)

Manx		rhenk (rank, row). (various references)

Papiamen		kategoria. (various references)

Pig Latin		ategorycay

Portuguese		categoria (brack, chop, class, grade, head, predicament, rank, status). (various references)

Romanian		categorie (class, color, colour, description, grade, kind, manner, nature, order, predicament, run, sort, species, type, weight). (various references)

Russian		категория (class, predicament, rank). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrsta (brand, class, gamboge, genus, kind, labrador tea, manner, quality, rank, run, sort, species, stripe, type), kategorija (predicament). (various references)

Spanish		categoría (brack, class, denomination, flatness, grade, order, position, rank, ranking, set, standing). (various references)

Swedish		kategori (bracket, catagory, class, head, league). (various references)

Turkish		zümre (clan, class, coterie, set), sinif, sınıf (branch, circle, class, classroom, denomination, estate, form, genus, grade, order, race, rank, rate, schoolroom, sort, sphere, States), kategori (predicament), kategorí, grup (band, batch, body, bunch, clan, class, clump, clutch, ensemble, gang, group, party, push, series, set), bölüm (Cantle, chapter, class, compartment, department, desk, division, episode, fraction, fragment, installment, instalment, part, portion, quotient, section, segment, septum, sequence, side, squad). (various references)

Turkmen		kategoria. (various references)

Ukranian		спортивний розряд, розряд (class), категорія (brood, class, distinction, notion, predicament, rank), клас (class, class-room, denomination, nature, notion, remove, school, schoolroom). (various references)

Vietnamese		hạng (calibre, denomination, grade, kind, run, species, standard). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	kategorein. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	genus, numeri, numero, numeros, numerum, numerus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "category": subcategory. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Category" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catagory, categary, Catego, categorie, categorys, catergory, catgory, cathegory, catogory, Catsgore. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "category" (pronounced ka"tugô'rē)
5	-u g ô' r ē	allegory.
3	-ô' r ē	accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, desultory, dilatory, discriminatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, mandatory, migratory, multistory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, outlawry, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, promissory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, repertory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory, transitory, understory.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: coater, garote, gyrate, orgeat.
	-3 letters: actor, argot, cager, cagey, caret, cargo, carte, cater, coyer, crate, ergot, gator, gayer, grace, grate, great, groat, oater, ocrea, orate, react, recta, recto, retag, targe, taroc, teary, terga, togae, toyer, trace, yager.
	-4 letters: acre, aero, aery, ager, arco, arty, cage, cagy, care, cart, cate, cero, coat, core, cory.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-r-t-y"
	+3 letters: gastrectomy, granulocyte, subcategory, tragicomedy.
	+4 letters: agranulocyte, bacteriology, gerontocracy, granulocytes, gynecocratic, gyromagnetic, laryngectomy, proteoglycan.
	+5 letters: agranulocytes, bacteriophagy, categorically, copyrightable, cryptographer, geometrically, geotropically, gesticulatory, hydromagnetic, laryngectomee, megakaryocyte, proteoglycans, saprogenicity, spectrography.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 74 65 67 6F 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .- - . --. --- .-. -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100111 01101111 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#103 &#111 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0065 0067 006F 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Category A category K is a collection of objects, obj(K), and a collection of morphisms (or "arrows"), mor(K) such that 1. Each morphism f has a "typing" on a pair of objects A, B written f:A->B. This is read 'f is a morphism from A to B'. A is the "source" or "domain" of f and B is its "target" or "co-domain". 2. There is a partial function on morphisms called composition and denoted by an infix ring symbol, o. We may form the "composite" g o f : A -> C if we have g:B->C and f:A->B. 3. This composition is associative: h o (g o f) = (h o g) o f. 4. Each object A has an identity morphism id_A:A->A associated with it. This is the identity under composition, shown by the equations id_B o f = f = f o id_A. In general, the morphisms between two objects need not form a set (to avoid problems with Russell's paradox). An example of a category is the collection of sets where the objects are sets and the morphisms are functions. Sometimes the composition ring is omitted. The use of capitals for objects and lower case letters for morphisms is widespread but not universal. Variables which refer to categories themselves are usually written in a script font. (1997-10-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Mathematics	A homogeneous class or group of a population of objects or measurements; the category may be styled after one of the finite characteristics of the population or according to the limits of measurement for which observations are to be allocated to that category of frequency group. Source: European Union. (references)
Post & Telecom	Table header in PERLs and SERLs. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
category multiple	3,798	1 120x240 adsize adsremote.scripps.com category hgtv html.ng pagepos site store store vgncontent	14
bbc.co.uk category	288	category music	12
affiliate category directory program	255	category 5e	12
category	146	category 5 wiring	11
category 5	117	adult category free gallery tgp	11
category management	86	category code merchant	11
adult category	72	category drug pregnancy	10
category please select	43	category manager	10
category 5 cable	38	category management software	10
category 6 cable	22	retail category management	10
category 6	22	category 5e cable	10
category film short	20	category ibm search	9
category it labor	18	category ebay	9
computer category	18	category iq	9
category g jamaica	16	category story	9
category many	16	by category quote	9
yahoo category	15	category jeopardy	9
category hurricane	15	browse browse category category front list shop shopping wish	8
category drug	15	category elite social	8
category engineer gsa labor network	14	category pregnancy risk	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Category

Definitions: Category

Category

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Category

Synonyms: Category

Synonyms within Context: Category

Class

Quantity

Relation

State

Crosswords: Category

Modern Usage: Category

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Category

Books

Periodicals

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Category

Computer Images:Category

Photo Album: Category

Familiar Quotations: Category

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Historic Usage: Category

Communist Manifesto

Treaty of Versailles

Non-Fiction Usage: Category

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Category

Joan Lunden

Usage Frequency: Category

Expressions: Category

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Category

Modern Translations: Category

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Papiamen

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukranian

Computer Images:
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