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category Noun

— A category is a group of people or things that are the same in some way. The music business tries to put music into various categories, such as rock, pop, jazz, etc.

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class kind type group sort variety order division rubric rank grade classification species rating family branch set section denomination column rate range part nomination heading form field department bracket year trim taxon subsumption subordinate to style standard sorting social rank sect schema category scale realm rap ranking race predicament position party pair organize into groups

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A category 5 hurricane causes maximum damage.

Irma is a category 5 hurricane.

Each category is assigned a unique code.

It is reasonable to think that there exist other anomalies in this category.

They don't belong under that category.

This doesn't fit into any category.

Every category has its disadvantages and advantages.

In Russia there is a category of people who believe that the world is ruled by reptilians.

Movie subtitles

Horace bested Pistachio in every category.

Are below their category.

That's a different category.

In what category?

You belong in the second category.

Is Hallam in that category?

In the 22nd category, there is an error of sixteen billionths.

Officially, you come under the category of extremely bad risk.

This job's A1 category.

I don't know it what category you are.

Your category is next.

How much longer till my category?

It's the third category that are worst.

An armed police squad helping the overburdened doctors to relieve the misery of those in category three.

And so you are in a category from which not to choose a son-in-law.

I simply said you are in the wrong category.

But your daughter doesn't marry a category.

Do you place me in a special category of women?

I don't know it what category you are. Except the sheep, of course.

Well, you don't fit into any known category.

In fact, the murderer-torturer resorts to the category of totality in order to claim his moral irresponsibility.

In our experiment, eight Category-A subjects underwent pattern brain surgery, whose programme was developed within the academy's organic computer dialectic system.

It will perhaps clarify these matters if we consider the specific configuration of the Category-A subject.

And I come in the second category.

It would be interesting to know into which category I fall.

Change my category!

Are you of this category?

Never mind. The first category.

Readings indicate a maze of tunnels of this general category in that direction.

News and current affairs

Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir belonged to that category.

The disgrace of Bo, Chongqing's former Party leader, certainly falls into this category.

Civilization (singular) is, on the contrary, an evaluative moral category: the opposite of barbarism.

And it turns out that growth rates decline in all of these categories as the debt-to-GDP ratio increases, only somewhat more in the last category.

Fortunately, the two largest countries, India and China both fall within that category.

Moldova and Georgia were in the last category until recently.

According to the Court, the law's legitimate purpose is to adapt teaching to the difficulties of a specific category of pupils, and psychological tests seem to be objective enough not to be suspected of racial bias.

But not every aspect of financial regulation and macroeconomic performance necessarily belongs in this category.

If we agree with Mill, then only one of Gates's examples falls into the category of expression that should be protected.

Germany is the tool-shop of the world, with 450 world market leaders in niche products and another 500 companies in the top-three category.

But when Katrina made landfall, it was not a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane; it was a milder Category 3.

As it stands, the Silk Road Fund is unilateral, placing it in the same category as the China Development Bank and the state-owned investment conglomerate CITIC.

The number is actually quite modest: If you can move between 100,000 and one million units of a disruptive product, you can establish the technology standards for that category and in time become the global leader of a new industry.

Even at the apex of American power, America's greatness was always based on inspiring others, and the opportunities for building market share in that particular category remain unlimited.

More than a decade after September 11, America's drone program does not fall into the first category of reactive self-defense.

Of the four growth components that fall into this category, two have the greatest potential to make a difference - capital spending and exports.

Although the Holocaust is a category of persecution sui generis, one cannot avoid thinking of Karski in light of the international community's approach to Syria today.

Researchers there argue that in fragile speculative industries (and finance has certainly been in that category in recent years) it is hard for investors to monitor those who manage their money.

Indeed, China is clearly in a category of its own, as a source of perceived (or real) risk to its regional environment.

In this way, a substantial part of the money they had raised would go to the most effective charity in each category, while simultaneously encouraging transparency and rigorous evaluation.

A Europe where countries do not fit neatly into one category or another, and where flexible coalitions emerge on various issues, probably has a greater chance of progressing than one divided simply between north and south or east and west.

Mittal's 2005 deal with Liberia (renegotiated last year) and various contracts with Congo probably fall at least partly into this category, as do some deals in ex-Soviet countries.

As long as today's activists and regulators remain convinced that GMOs represent a distinct and dangerous category of research and products, genetic engineering will fall short of its potential.

The inability of India's current political system to provide effective government places the country in a different category: a non-performing state.

Substantial differences among and within Africa's countries imply the need for a much deeper and finer-grained understanding of consumer preferences and affordability profiles by product category.

That alone probably explains much of the difference among China, in a category of its own, emerging Asia, and Latin America.

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