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category
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broad category
▪ Our range of programmes fall into three broad categories.
distinct types/groups/categories etc
▪ There are four distinct types.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
▪ The expressive notation facilitates abridgement in order to specify broader categories.
▪ A broader category of 38 gambling stocks has dropped 32 % since the beginning of 1994.
certain
▪ In chapter 4 I suggested that you might try ignoring certain categories of unacceptable behaviour.
▪ Man as he now is lives under certain categories of Cosmic Law, which keep him at his present level of development.
▪ It is not due to the exclusion of certain categories of people from attendance.
▪ Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others.
different
▪ Give five different categories of hotel. 4.
▪ We present twelve different categories of these, but the number could be greatly expanded.
▪ The different categories of traveller are very hard to assess at all precisely.
▪ A lot of things in a lot of different categories.
▪ Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories.
▪ Since there are many different categories of debt issues, there are many different possible types of yield curves.
▪ Box 18 gives some examples from the different categories.
▪ Corporation tax systems fall into different categories.
distinct
▪ Revisionist analyses of socio-economic trends in the countryside fall into two distinct categories.
▪ The enemy strategic assets will largely fall into three distinct categories.
▪ These functions fall into two wholly distinct categories.
▪ Not one person identifies fathers as a distinct category.
▪ Advertising structures the newspaper into distinct categories and sections.
▪ Materials in the center are organized into three distinct categories: reference, child-use, and staff development.
▪ The two distinct categories are muddled in a manner that is difficult to separate analytically.
▪ They do not represent four predefined, distinct categories of user.
general
▪ All the music we listen to falls into two general rhythmic categories.
▪ They must be able to generalize from specific to general categories.
▪ When looking at the firm overall, management must contend with two general categories of risk: business risk and financial risk.
▪ Alternatively, general categories or headings are established and topics listed under these headings.
▪ Plants in the same general category produce different configurations of wastes, since they operate in the slightly different ways.
▪ Your answers will provide you with general categories of physical activities that are appropriate for you at this time. 1.
▪ Two general categories are used in describing neural network organization.
grammatical
▪ There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
▪ Firstly one must determine the grammatical categories of the words in the lattice.
▪ Hence it was necessary to first determine the grammatical categories of the words in the corpus.
▪ Each word is tagged with its grammatical category.
▪ Indeed, it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here.
▪ Example 1 above should be detected as an error by analysis of the grammatical categories of the words.
▪ The process of learning words, learning their grammatical categories and acquiring them in correct combinations is very much a two-way affair.
▪ We can see this very clearly if we consider the grammatical category of gender.
high
▪ What of higher categories - genera, orders, classes etc.?
▪ He argued that all the higher taxonomic categories can be divided into five subordinate units that fall naturally into a circular pattern.
▪ Baldwin was not in the highest category of orators.
large
▪ In the St Ann's study, the sick and disabled constituted the fourth largest category of the poor.
▪ Card and Krueger studied restaurant workers, the largest category of minimum-wage employees.
▪ Initially, you might discern the larger category of three different word groupings.
▪ In every area it remained the largest category, although distribution was heavily skewed toward Canning Town.
▪ Current assets, particularly accounts receivable and inventory, often represent the largest single category of asset investment for many firms.
▪ The largest category of these is market loans.
▪ It represents the largest category of federal payments to the states.
main
▪ To summarize, broadly speaking there are three main categories of such patients. 1.
▪ The main categories of change, and the processes through which they work are set out in Figure 2.5.
▪ The six main categories are discussed below.
▪ Wegener's third main category of evidence was palaeontological.
▪ What main categories of stock are likely to be held by a manufacturing business?
▪ The answers to this question fall into two main categories.
major
▪ These flat roofing materials fall into three major categories: built-up felt roofing, mastic asphalt and single-ply membranes.
▪ In this chapter we have seen the three major categories of financial statements.
▪ The second major category of feeders is the scavenger group.
▪ Ironically, such cases were among the only major categories in the study in which median awards declined.
▪ It is likely too that non-manufacturing activities need to be broken down into major cost-driver categories.
▪ The film still had nominees in all other major categories, including acting, directing and writing.
▪ For a typical many-electron atom, such as Fe, we may divide the orbitals into three major categories.
▪ The four major categories of cur-rent assets held by most firms are cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventory.
new
▪ This year's Better Environment Awards for Industry include a new category: for companies with bright ideas on recovering waste.
▪ It took little time to discover that I was in a new category.
▪ The new category of genetically modified organisms has been subject to far less testing than one should reasonably expect.
▪ The hottest new category of online freebies is full Internet access.
▪ A whole new tragic category of bankrupts are in the making.
▪ It codified previous provisions excluding aliens and added a long list of new categories of persons to be excluded.
▪ While there was scepticism about property funds, there was general initial hostility to the other new categories.
▪ You can now drag and drop any folder, or shortcut within a folder, and place them within your new category.
other
▪ Many seven-day members disapproved of members in other categories, such as social having full voting rights.
▪ There are other higher-level categories, such as Strategic, which requires information from all areas for planning purposes.
▪ It is essential to realise at the outset that desktop publishing software is totally unlike any other software product category.
▪ What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions?
▪ While there was scepticism about property funds, there was general initial hostility to the other new categories.
▪ No other category of asset came close to rivalling that performance.
▪ There are three other categories: widowed, separated and divorced.
▪ The possibilities are enormous; other leaders may reveal other categories.
particular
▪ Indeed, it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here.
▪ We have examined the class situation of a particular category of workers at a particular site.
▪ Now, in a similar tradition, comes the particular category of assault called acquaintance violence.
▪ Therefore, the degree to which official statistics underestimate the actual level of crime depends on the particular category of crime.
▪ A merger is essentially a particular category of takeover; no special distinction is drawn in this book between mergers and takeovers.
▪ This approach assumes that female psychologists in a particular category are all the same.
▪ In the second consultation south of the border the scope of the registers was reduced from all land, to particular categories.
▪ The new Legal Aid Board would accordingly be given power to make alternative arrangements for the provision of particular categories of work.
separate
▪ Accounting for certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities classifies investments in three separate categories.
▪ Included in a separate category are those allowed entry because they proved they have unique employment skills.
▪ Almost twenty separate categories are listed but there are also pages and pages of other activities which defy classification.
▪ The judging addresses seven separate but related categories worth a total of I, 000 points.
▪ The present case does not fall clearly into any of these separate categories.
▪ Maslow's hierarchy isolates needs for self-esteem as a separate motivating category.
▪ He described his experience thus: There are two types of approach falling into two separate categories.
▪ Centres should note, that to recognise student achievement on more than one instrument, modules have been given separate instrumental categories.
special
▪ For the first time, Polaroid will recognise student entries with a special category.
▪ These are all special categories that need institutional care.
▪ Should they not be investigated as a special category of people affected?
▪ Family stories, such as the ones about my Aunt Naomi belong to a special category.
▪ Everywhere save Britain the constitution is defined as a special category of law.
▪ But since Derrida has no special category for literature,. this solution would clearly be of no use to him.
▪ These special categories, forming a substantial part of the collection, present special difficulties because of their age, condition and value.
▪ In-laws Relationships with in-laws form a special category of kin relationships.
various
▪ Exemptions Various categories of vehicle are exempt from the need to obtain an operating licence.
▪ Look at the various categories with them and show them the lines where they can add their own descriptors. 4.
▪ The Validation Statistics present totals for the various categories of results.
▪ Figure 1 shows striking declines in death rates for various age categories from 1930 to 1975.
▪ The various categories of operating expenditure are broadly in line with budget for the year.
▪ So much so that, when the various category prizes were announced, he all but swept the board.
▪ Table 11, below, shows how 3978 items issued in the course of the exercise were distributed among the various categories.
▪ There could be a four percent difference in the mortgage rate between the various categories.
■ NOUN
age
▪ This is true for every age category and every income category.
▪ And their suicide rate is two to three times higher than ours in every age category.
▪ There will be races for both men and women, as well as for a variety of different age categories.
▪ It was unclear why the last man in the age category did not get tested.
▪ Figure 1 shows striking declines in death rates for various age categories from 1930 to 1975.
■ VERB
belong
▪ At least some of the seven small buildings just outside the military compounds at Corbridge may also belong in this category.
▪ This series belongs to the latter category, believe it.
▪ The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category.
▪ Family stories, such as the ones about my Aunt Naomi belong to a special category.
▪ Language has always been regarded as belonging among these secondary categories.
▪ Have the students name some other things which belong in each category. 2.
▪ Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed.
▪ The essence of any collection of stamps or of teapots must be that each specimen belongs in a distinct category.
divide
▪ The competition is divided into two categories: Professionals and Amateurs, with substantial prizes for the winners of each section.
▪ The program provides many different pieces of artwork, divided clearly into categories.
▪ In the format for the interviews, the external information was divided into five categories as listed below.
▪ The games on the site are divided into two categories: friendlies and tournaments.
▪ The interactions are divided phenomenologically into four categories.
▪ The many forms of atheism can usefully be divided into two categories.
▪ To put computer images to work, they need to be divided into two categories.
▪ Block Funding Under block funding trainees will be divided into five categories or premium levels.
fall
▪ Instructions fall into four categories: arithmetic-logical, memory access, branch, and miscellaneous.
▪ Generally speaking, however, they appear to fall into two categories: external and internal.
▪ Team kites fall into several categories, chosen for precision flying or ballet and to suit the wind conditions.
▪ Less than one percent of homicides recorded nationwide last year fell into this category, McCrary said.
▪ If you fall into this category and have a low income, you may be entitled to Poll Tax Benefit.
▪ The trick is figuring out which kids will fall into which category.
▪ Of course, as far as headhunters are concerned, these companies fall into the category of poaching grounds.
▪ Entrepreneurial organizations clearly fall into the task-oriented category.
fit
▪ The reaction against this structure has produced forms of politics that do not fit into traditional political categories.
▪ The set of services that fits into this category, however, may well be negligible.
▪ We do not know what sort of a variable it is; it does not seem to fit into any category.
▪ Perhaps 15 percent to 20 percent of the men referred by courts fit this category, he says.
▪ We fit into the latter category in these terms, but not in our own.
▪ Certain chronic or terminal ailments may fit into this category, as may negative aspects of membership of a minority group.
include
▪ This year's Better Environment Awards for Industry include a new category: for companies with bright ideas on recovering waste.
▪ Mrs Cigans tells the children to sit at one end of the table but mercifully does not include me in this category.
▪ Not all the interests in land known to the law were included in the category of real property.
▪ It is now necessary to expand the accounting equation to include the last two categories of data, revenues and expenses.
▪ Dramatised television and radio productions can be included in this category.
▪ See Table 2-I for a list of seizures included in this category.
▪ We can include in this category empathy or intuition, and also telepathy.
▪ The term broadly includes the commonly-used categories of fluorescence and phosphorescence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Emma Thompson won an Oscar in the Best Actress category.
▪ Housing authorities that enforce the policies will qualify for certain categories of bonus funding.
▪ Insurance companies identify six main categories of driver.
▪ The novels are divided up into three categories: historical, romantic, and crime.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In some areas over 50 percent of planning applications fall into these categories.
▪ Karen Quinlan falls into this third category, despite initial medical and popular views to the contrary.
▪ Obviously all claims not requiring the appointment of Loss Adjusters can not be inspected but certain categories require closer investigation than others.
▪ These labels all belong to one category.
▪ Women in low-status social categories are especially likely to experience this.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Category

Category \Cat"e*go*ry\, n.; pl. Categories. [L. categoria, Gr. ?, fr. ? to accuse, affirm, predicate; ? down, against + ? to harrangue, assert, fr. ? assembly.]

  1. (Logic.) 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.

    The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed.
    --J. S. Mill.

  2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.

    There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category.
    --De Quincey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
category

1580s, from Middle French catégorie, from Late Latin categoria, from Greek kategoria "accusation, prediction, category," verbal noun from kategorein "to speak against; to accuse, assert, predicate," from kata "down to" (or perhaps "against;" see cata-) + agoreuein "to harangue, to declaim (in the assembly)," from agora "public assembly" (see agora). Original sense of "accuse" weakened to "assert, name" by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.\n\ncategory should be used by no-one who is not prepared to state (1) that he does not mean class, & (2) that he knows the difference between the two ....

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Wiktionary
category

n. 1 A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. 2 (context mathematics English) 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.

WordNet
category
  1. n. a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" [syn: class, family]

  2. a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme

Wikipedia
Category (mathematics)

In mathematics, a category is an algebraic structure that comprises "objects" that are linked by "arrows". A category has two basic properties: the ability to compose the arrows associatively and the existence of an identity arrow for each object. A simple example is the category of sets, whose objects are sets and whose arrows are functions. On the other hand, any monoid can be understood as a special sort of category, and so can any preorder. In general, the objects and arrows may be abstract entities of any kind, and the notion of category provides a fundamental and abstract way to describe mathematical entities and their relationships. This is the central idea of category theory, a branch of mathematics which seeks to generalize all of mathematics in terms of objects and arrows, independent of what the objects and arrows represent. Virtually every branch of modern mathematics can be described in terms of categories, and doing so often reveals deep insights and similarities between seemingly different areas of mathematics. For more extensive motivational background and historical notes, see category theory and the list of category theory topics.

Two categories are the same if they have the same collection of objects, the same collection of arrows, and the same associative method of composing any pair of arrows. Two categories may also be considered " equivalent" for purposes of category theory, even if they are not precisely the same.

Well-known categories are denoted by a short capitalized word or abbreviation in bold or italics: examples include Set, the category of sets and set functions; Ring, the category of rings and ring homomorphisms; and Top, the category of topological spaces and continuous maps. All of the preceding categories have the identity map as identity arrow and composition as the associative operation on arrows.

The classic and still much used text on category theory is Categories for the Working Mathematician by Saunders Mac Lane. Other references are given in the References below. The basic definitions in this article are contained within the first few chapters of any of these books.

Category

Category, plural categories, may refer to:

Category (Kant)

In Kant's philosophy, a category is a pure concept of the understanding. A Kantian category is a characteristic of the appearance of any object in general, before it has been experienced. Kant wrote that "They are concepts of an object in general…." Kant also wrote that, "…pure cоncepts [Categories] of the undеrstanding…apply to objects of intuition in general…." Such a category is not a classificatory division, as the word is commonly used. It is, instead, the condition of the possibility of objects in general, that is, objects as such, any and all objects, not specific objects in particular.

Usage examples of "category".

Under the category of anomalies, West made specific reference to the bowls carved out of diorite and other hard stones described in Part VI.

But the Appalachian Law School shootout raised groupthink to a whole new category of duplicity.

The bees brought from Maryville had been subdued with carbon dioxide and separated into two categories - the Afro-Americans and the giant mutant bees.

Brands exist on many levels, and there are typically only a few brands within each category.

Rani stared at him from beneath her lashes wondering why her intuition was telling her that Flint Cottrell would never fit neatly into a single category.

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This clothing served as a uniform for The Watchmen in training, but also made plausible working gear for them in their secondary roles as drillers, rig mechanics, floormen, roustabouts and other categories of occupation aboard the drillship half a mile off-shore.

The military operations in that country, though extending over a very large area, may be roughly divided into two categories: the attacks by the Boers upon British posts, and the aggressive sweeping movements of British columns.

Wright, the contract clause had been considered in almost forty per cent of all cases involving the validity of State legislation, and of these the vast proportion involved legislative grants of one type or other, the most important category being charters of incorporation.

Just before the carmine and purple handstamp on the 1900 category and the 75-centimes in all the French-China divisions was a tiny checkmark.

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These creatures, although fully as dependent on the homeostatic biosphere as other units of life, had nevertheless elevated themselves to a special category.

Third category embraced the hybrids, those beings who, like Jaguarundi, were the product of genetic engineering.

We could say, in Kantian fashion, that our internal moral disposition, when it is confronted with and tested in the social order, tends to be determined by the ethical, political, and juridical categories of Empire.

Unfortunately, that part of magic which refused to conform to the neat categories of the nineteenth-century methodologists was lopped off and left out of the body of science.