Category
['kætɪg(ə)rɪ] or ['kætəɡɔri]
Definition
(noun.) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme.
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Lorna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Class, head, division, order, rank.[2]. Predicament, plight, condition, case, state, situation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:State, kind, predicament, condition, nature, order, mode, sort, class
ANT:Essence, truth, being
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Definition
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.'
Editor: Randolph
Examples
- Well, I have no doubt that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Betteredge's present effort at corresponding with me came within this category. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Moreover, it is scarcely in the category of invention that the acquisition of alphabetic writing or the use of Arabic numerals properly belongs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Mrs Lammle gave him the look of a decidedly dissatisfied party demanding exemption from the category; but said nothing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I could only remember Miss Clack as coming within this latter category. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Kenge and Carboy in the same category with Mr. Badger, I asked him when he intended to be articled in Lincoln's Inn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Until he had subsumed the article under certain categories he had come to accept, appreciation was impossible for him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I want--I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that--categories like that--won't exist. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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