category

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UK /ˈkæ.tɪ.ɡə.ɹi/ US /ˈkæ.tɪˌɡɔ.ɹi/

noun 2

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

broad, general | narrow | distinct, separate

special

Part-time employees fall into a special category with different benefits than full-time staff.

high

Stealing a car is considered a high category crime in most countries.

high-risk

People who work outdoors without protection are placed in a high-risk category for skin cancer.

age, social

VERB + CATEGORY

be included in, belong to, come into, fall into, fit (into)

Different types of animals belong to various categories based on what they eat.

assign sb/sth to, divide sb/sth into, group sb/sth under, put sb/sth in/into | create, define, establish

CATEGORY + VERB

comprise sth, include sth

PREP

in/within a/the ~

My sister won first place within the beginner category at the piano competition.

~ of

The restaurant fell into a different category of dining experience after the chef changed the menu.

PHRASES

be in a category (all) of its/your own

Definitions

noun

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

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.

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.

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.

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Synonyms

noun — a collection of things sharing a common attribute

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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 trad

Wiktionary

It is reasonable to think that there exist other anomalies in this category.

Tatoeba · #61235

His latest work belongs to a different category.

Tatoeba · #286350

They don't belong under that category.

Tatoeba · #305841

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