English noun: category |
1. | category (group) a collection of things sharing a common attribute |
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| Samples | There are two classes of detergents.
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| Synonyms | class, family |
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| Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | brass family, conjugation, declension, denomination, grammatical category, histocompatibility complex, paradigm, sex, stamp, substitution class, syntactic category, violin family, woodwind family |
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| Member holonym | superphylum |
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2. | category (cognition) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme |
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| Broader (hypernym) | concept, conception, construct |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | form, kind, pigeonhole, rubric, sort, variety, way |
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