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Category 音标拼音: [k'ætəg ,ɔri] n. 种类,类项 种类,类项 category类别 category种类 范畴 category n 1: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; " there are two classes of detergents" [ synonym: { class}, { category}, { family}] 2: a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual schemeCategory \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. [ 1913 Webster] There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] 49 Moby Thesaurus words for " category": area, blood, bracket, branch, caste, clan, class, classification, department, division, estate, grade, group, grouping, head, heading, kin, kind, label, league, level, list, listing, order, pigeonhole, position, predicament, race, rank, ranking, rating, rubric, section, sector, sept, set, sort, sphere, station, status, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, tier, title, type, variety
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