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CATEGORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("category" is a kind of...):
concept; conception; construct (an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "category"):
form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)
pigeonhole (a specific (often simplistic) category)
rubric (category name)
way (a general category of things; used in the expression 'in the way of')
Derivation:
categorial (of or relating to the concept of categories)
categorical (relating to or included in a category or categories)
categorize (place into or assign to a category)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A collection of things sharing a common attribute
Example:
there are two classes of detergents
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("category" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meronyms (members of "category"):
superphylum ((biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "category"):
grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)
paradigm; substitution class (the 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)
stamp (a type or class)
sex (either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided)
declension (a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms)
conjugation (a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms)
denomination (a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money)
histocompatibility complex (a 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)
Derivation:
categorial (of or relating to the concept of categories)
categoric; categorical (relating to or included in a category or categories)
categorize (place into or assign to a category)
Context examples:
This category includes otic, nasal and ophthalmic agents.
(Agent Affecting Organs of Special Senses, NCI Thesaurus)
This category may be applied to new antimicrobial agents for which no resistant microorganisms have been encountered at the time the initial interpretive criteria are determined.
(Antimicrobial Nonsusceptibility Result, NCI Thesaurus)
A category used for microorganisms that have only a susceptible interpretive criteria, but not an intermediate or resistant interpretive category (i.e., susceptible-only interpretive category).
(Antimicrobial Nonsusceptibility Result, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A major category of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), dealing with natural and biologically-based nutritional interventions and practices.
(Biologically Based Practices, NCI Thesaurus)
This category includes borderline mucinous and serous neoplasms and borderline endometrioid tumor.
(Borderline Fallopian Tube Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
NIH: Major category of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
(Biologically Based Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
A category specifying that a product is marketed under a Biologic License Application.
(Biologics License Application, Food and Drug Administration)
The most common representative of this category is the lipoma.
(Benign Lipomatous Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
This category includes adenofibroma and adenomyoma.
(Benign Cervical Mixed Epithelial and Mesenchymal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
The existence and clinical significance of a borderline category in the mucinous tumors is not as well-defined as for their serous counterpart.
(Borderline Mucinous Cystadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
