单词 | category |
释义 | category (once / 499 pages) n A category is a group of things that share some commonality. Think of the game show "Jeopardy!," and how each column is a different category of questions — like "Literary Characters" or "Potent Potables." The noun category has the sense of ordering or sorting. In Biology, the science of taxonomy is all about categorizing all living organisms. It might be an easier task to categorize books in a library according to genre (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, mysteries, etc.) or to categorize the shoes in your closet according to season. WORD FAMILYcategory: categoric, categorical, categories, categorise, categorize+/categorical: categorically/categorise: categorisation, categorised/categorised: uncategorised/categorization: categorizations/categorize: categorization, categorized, categorizes, categorizing/categorized: uncategorized USAGE EXAMPLESFirst, with the exception of certain categories like power lines, infrastructure is, on average, less metal-intensive than offices or homes. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) We also witnessed seven Category 5 storms, which is a huge number. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) The second category is people who want to create something tangible. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme Hypo|Hyper form, kind, sort, variety a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality pigeonholea specific (often simplistic) category rubriccategory name waya general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of' descriptionsort or variety typea subdivision of a particular kind of thing antitypean opposite or contrasting type art form(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) stylea particular kind (as to appearance) flavor, flavour(physics) the six kinds of quarks color, colour(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction speciesa specific kind of something genusa general kind of something brand, makea recognizable kind genrea kind of literary or artistic work ilk, likea kind of person mannera kind modela type of product stripea kind or category like, the like, the likes ofa similar kind concept, conception, construct an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances 2n a collection of things sharing a common attribute Syn|Hypo|Hyper class, family grammatical category, syntactic category (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties paradigm, substitution classthe class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) brass family(music) the family of brass instruments violin family(music) the family of bowed stringed instruments woodwind family(music) the family of woodwind instruments stampa type or class sexeither of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided declensiona class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms conjugationa class of verbs having the same inflectional forms denominationa class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money histocompatibility complexa family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response case, grammatical casenouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence form class, part of speech, word classone of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context numberthe grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) persona grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party gender, grammatical gendera grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness tensea grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time participant role, semantic role(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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