Category
['kætɪg(ə)rɪ] or ['kætəɡɔri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme.
布里茨校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
編輯:洛娜
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Class, head, division, order, rank.[2]. Predicament, plight, condition, case, state, situation.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:State, kind, predicament, condition, nature, order, mode, sort, class
ANT:Essence, truth, being
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解釋/意思:
n. what may be affirmed of a class: a class or order.—adjs. Categoremat′ic capable of being used by itself as a term; Categor′ical positive: absolute: without exception.—adv. Categor′ically absolutely: without qualification: expressly.—n. Categor′icalness the quality of being absolute and unqualified.—n.pl. Cat′egories (phil.) the highest classes under which objects of philosophy can be systematically arranged understood as an attempt at a comprehensive classification of all that exists: in Kant's system the root-notions of the understanding the specific forms of the a priori or formal element in rational cognition (quantity quality relation modality &c.).—v.t. Cat′egorise to place in a category or list: to class.—n. Categor′ist one who categorises.—Categorical imperative in the ethics of Kant the absolute unconditional command of the moral law irrespective of every ulterior end or aim—universally authoritative belonging to the fixed law of nature—'Act from a maxim at all times fit for law universal.'
校對:伦道夫
例句/造句/用法:
- Well, I have no doubt that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- But it is one of the things that makes people be treated as reliable who would ordinarily have to spend much more time before attaining that category. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Betteredge's present effort at corresponding with me came within this category. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Moreover, it is scarcely in the category of invention that the acquisition of alphabetic writing or the use of Arabic numerals properly belongs. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Mrs Lammle gave him the look of a decidedly dissatisfied party demanding exemption from the category; but said nothing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I could only remember Miss Clack as coming within this latter category. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Kenge and Carboy in the same category with Mr. Badger, I asked him when he intended to be articled in Lincoln's Inn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Until he had subsumed the article under certain categories he had come to accept, appreciation was impossible for him. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I want--I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that--categories like that--won't exist. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
校對:凯特