English-Thai Dictionary

category

N หมวด  หมู่  หมวดหมู่  ประเภท  class type

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CATEGORY

n.In logic, a series or order of all the predicates or attributes contained under a genus. The school philosophers distributed all the objects of our thoughts and ideas into genera or classes. Aristotle made ten categories, viz. Substance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, situation and habit.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CATEGORY

Cat "e *go *ry, n.; pl. Categories Etym: [L. categoria, Gr.

 

1. (Logic. )

 

Defn: 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. 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.

 

2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

category

cat e go ry |ˈkatəˌgôrē ˈkædəˌɡɔri | ▶noun ( pl. categories ) 1 a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics: five categories of intelligence. 2 Philosophy one of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed. • one of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions. DERIVATIVES cat e go ri al |ˌkatəˈgôrēəl |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English ( sense 2 ): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation, ’ from katēgoros ‘accuser. ’

 

category killer

cat e go ry kill er ▶noun a large store, typically one of a chain, that specializes in a particular type of discounted merchandise and becomes the dominant retailer in that category.

 

category mistake

cat e go ry mis take (also category error ) ▶noun Logic the error of assigning to something a quality or action that can properly be assigned to things only of another category, for example, treating abstract concepts as though they had a physical location.

 

Oxford Dictionary

category

cat ¦egory |ˈkatɪg (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. categories ) 1 a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics: the various categories of research. 2 Philosophy each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed. • each of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions. DERIVATIVES categorial |-ˈgɔːrɪəl |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English (in sense 2 ): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation ’, from katēgoros ‘accuser ’.

 

category killer

cat ¦egory kill ¦er ▶noun a large store, typically one of a chain, which specializes in a particular type of discounted merchandise and becomes the dominant retailer in that category.

 

category mistake

category mistake (also category error ) ▶noun Logic the error of assigning to something a quality or action which can only properly be assigned to things of another category, for example treating abstract concepts as though they had a physical location.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

category

category noun his music doesn't fit into any conventional category: class, classification, group, grouping, bracket, heading, set; type, sort, kind, variety, species, breed, brand, make, model; grade, order, rank; informal pigeonhole.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

category

category noun weedkillers fall into five broad categories: class, classification, categorization, group, grouping, bracket, head, heading, list, listing, set; type, sort, kind, variety, species, genre, breed, style, brand, make, model, family, stamp, cast, ilk, kidney; grade, grading, order, rank, status; division, section, department, compartment, pigeonhole.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

category

cat e go ry /kǽtəɡɔ̀ːri |-ɡ (ə )ri / (! 強勢は第1音節 ) 〖語源は 「告発 」〗名詞 複 -ries /-z /C 範疇 （はんちゆう ）, 種類 , 部類 , 部門 (class ); 〘論 哲 〙範疇 ; 〘コンピュ 〙項類 , カテゴリ ▸ Computer crimes fall into [belong to ] several categories .コンピュータ犯罪はいくつかの範疇に分類される c à t e g ó ri al 形容詞