Definition of Category

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Category

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.

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.

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Category Quotations

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. Mencken

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
Mercedes McCambridge

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
Steve Wozniak

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
Nora Roberts

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
Nora Roberts

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Erica Jong

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
Jurgen Habermas

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Louis Pasteur

Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor Adorno

Category Translations

category in Dutch is categorie
category in German is Kategorie
category in Italian is categoria, ceto
category in Latin is genus, numerus
category in Portuguese is categoria
category in Swedish is kategori

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