categorycat‧e‧go‧ry /ˈkætəɡəri $ -ɡɔːri/ ●●● S2 W2 AWL noun (plural categories) [countable] 
There are five categories of workers. people in the over-45 age category Seats are available in eight of the ten price categories.fall into/belong in/fit into a category Voters fall into three main categories. Williams’ style does not fit easily into the category of jazz.COLLOCATIONSverbsbelong to a category· A lot of water plants belong to this category.fall/come into a category· The data we collected fell into two categories.fit into a category· Rogers doesn’t fit into either category.put somebody/something into categories· People are individuals and you can’t really put them into categories.group somebody/something into categories· Let’s start by grouping the books into categories.divide/split something into categories· The exhibition of 360 paintings is divided into three categories.adjectivesa broad/general category· Our range of programmes come into three broad categories.the main category· This is the main category of patients.· There are two main categories of university fees.a major category· a major category of vehicle· Theft is one of the major categories of crime.a special category (=one that nothing else belongs to)· The constitution was defined as a special category of law.a distinct/separate category (=clearly different from others)· Animals fall into distinct categories.
WORD ORIGINcategory
Origin:
1400-1500 Late Latin categoria, from Greek, from kategorein ‘to accuse, make a statement about’, from kata- ( ➔ CATACLYSM) + agora ‘public gathering’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Emma Thompson won an Oscar in the Best Actress category.
- Housing authorities that enforce the policies will qualify for certain categories of bonus funding.
- Insurance companies identify six main categories of driver.
- The novels are divided up into three categories: historical, romantic, and crime.
- In some areas over 50 percent of planning applications fall into these categories.
- Karen Quinlan falls into this third category, despite initial medical and popular views to the contrary.
- Obviously all claims not requiring the appointment of Loss Adjusters can not be inspected but certain categories require closer investigation than others.
- These labels all belong to one category.
- Women in low-status social categories are especially likely to experience this.
THESAURUS
one member of a group of people or things that have similar features or qualities. Type is the usual word to use in scientific or technical contexts. In everyday English, people usually use kind or sort: · What type of fish is this?· There are two main personality types.
a type of person or thing. Kind is less formal than type, and is used especially in everyday English: · What kind of food do you like?· There were all kinds of people there.· The study is the first of its kind in Ireland.
especially British English a type of person or thing. Sort is less formal than type, and is used especially in everyday British English: · What sort of person is she?· I like all sorts of music.
one type of something from all the ones that are possible – used especially when things have different physical characteristics, or in certain fixed phrases: · There are many forms of heart disease.· Melanoma is a form of skin cancer.· The first primitive life forms consumed various materials, including hydrogen sulfide, and released oxygen.· In those days, horses were the commonest form of transport.· We need to use alternative forms of energy.· a popular form of entertainment
a type that is slightly different from others in the same group: · The French make many varieties of cheese.· This is a new variety of apple.
a type of plant or animal, which can breed together to produce plants or animals of the same type: · These forests contain many species of trees.· The giant panda is an endangered species.
formal used when talking about a particular type of thing: · Many people find it embarrassing to discuss problems of a sexual nature.· Minor incidents of this nature normally occur about once a month.
a group of people or things that are all of the same type – used when there is a clear system for deciding which group something belongs to: · The three major categories of rock are: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.· She won the best actress category at the Oscars.
used when talking about the particular way that someone does something or thinks about something, when this is very different from that of other people: · She has her own special brand of humour.· He has called for a more positive brand of politics.
formal a type of art, music, literature etc. that has a particular style or feature: · He has written novels in several genres, most notably science fiction.
Longman Language Activatora type of person or thing a group of things or people that are similar to each other in some way, or a thing or person that belongs to such a group. Kind and sort are more common than type in spoken English. Use type when you are talking about technical subjects or when you are describing something in an exact way: · I'll get you some ice-cream. What kind would you like?type/kind/sort of: · The floor was made of three different types of wood.· What sort of fish is this?· "What type of music do you like?" "Mainly dance music and some indie."· She's the kind of person you can always rely on.· There are two sorts of politician - the ones who really want to help people, and the ones who just want power.of this/that type etc: · Accidents of this type are extremely common.· It's a club for writers and actors and people of that sort.of various/many/different types etc: · They export farming machinery and tools of various kinds.
a particular type of building, art, literature, music etc: · The new library is a blend of various architectural styles.style of: · a completely new style of painting
a group that people or things of the same type are divided into for a particular purpose - use this when there are several groups and there is a clear system for deciding which group something belongs to: · Emma Thompson won an Oscar in the Best Actress category.· The novels are divided up into three categories: historical, romantic, and crime.category of: · Insurance companies identify six main categories of driver.
a number of people or things that are considered as being of the same group because they have the same physical features, qualities etc: class of: · French is one of a class of languages known as the Romance languages.· Doctors are reluctant to prescribe a new class of drugs, especially ones which need to be taken for long periods of time.
a type of thing that is different from another similar type: variety of: · The French make many varieties of cheese, from both cows' and goats' milk.· At that time, all newsreaders spoke a variety of English spoken in southern England, known as Received Pronunciation.
formal a type of literature, film, or work of art: · Science fiction as a genre is relatively new.· Italian filmmakers made their own versions of the classic Hollywood genres - the western, the gangster film, the musical.
a form of something is one type of it of all the ones that are possible: form of: · Melanoma is a form of skin cancer.· Britain has a constitutional form of government.· Sugar in chocolate and other forms of confectionery is one of the major causes of tooth decay.
a particular type of thing: of a political/historical/technical/scientific/sexual nature : · The support being given is primarily of a practical nature.· books of an erotic natureof a different/similar nature: · On the plains the farmers have to deal with frequent floods, but up in the hills their problems are of a different nature. of that nature: · Children at this age commonly refer to being eaten up by tigers and lions and things of that nature.be in the nature of something (=to be like something): · The cruise was to be in the nature of a "rest cure".
of that type, his type etc - use this especially about types that you do not like or respect: · Environmentalists, feminists, and others of that ilk regularly try to drive shows like this off the air.· Desserts ($5) were of the tiramisu, crème brûlée, chocolate torte ilk.
especially spoken of the type that you have just been talking about: · The children need new pens and pencils and things like that.· People like that really annoy me.· I'm not sure what to do. I've never been in a situation like this before.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs There are four distinct types.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· A lot of water plants belong to this category.
· The data we collected fell into two categories.
· Rogers doesn’t fit into either category.
· People are individuals and you can’t really put them into categories.
· Let’s start by grouping the books into categories.
· The exhibition of 360 paintings is divided into three categories.
adjectives· Our range of programmes come into three broad categories.
· This is the main category of patients.· There are two main categories of university fees.
· a major category of vehicle· Theft is one of the major categories of crime.
(=one that nothing else belongs to)· The constitution was defined as a special category of law.
(=clearly different from others)· Animals fall into distinct categories.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· Our range of programmes fall into three broad categories.
There are four distinct types.· The expressive notation facilitates abridgement in order to specify broader categories.· A broader category of 38 gambling stocks has dropped 32 % since the beginning of 1994.
· In chapter 4 I suggested that you might try ignoring certain categories of unacceptable behaviour.· Man as he now is lives under certain categories of Cosmic Law, which keep him at his present level of development.· It is not due to the exclusion of certain categories of people from attendance.· Also on Jan. 1 Havel declared an amnesty which involved pardoning certain categories of short-term prisoners and reducing the sentences of others.
· Give five different categories of hotel. 4.· We present twelve different categories of these, but the number could be greatly expanded.· The different categories of traveller are very hard to assess at all precisely.· A lot of things in a lot of different categories.· Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories.· Since there are many different categories of debt issues, there are many different possible types of yield curves.· Box 18 gives some examples from the different categories.· Corporation tax systems fall into different categories.
· Revisionist analyses of socio-economic trends in the countryside fall into two distinct categories.· The enemy strategic assets will largely fall into three distinct categories.· These functions fall into two wholly distinct categories.· Not one person identifies fathers as a distinct category.· Advertising structures the newspaper into distinct categories and sections.· Materials in the center are organized into three distinct categories: reference, child-use, and staff development.· The two distinct categories are muddled in a manner that is difficult to separate analytically.· They do not represent four predefined, distinct categories of user.
· All the music we listen to falls into two general rhythmic categories.· They must be able to generalize from specific to general categories.· When looking at the firm overall, management must contend with two general categories of risk: business risk and financial risk.· Alternatively, general categories or headings are established and topics listed under these headings.· Plants in the same general category produce different configurations of wastes, since they operate in the slightly different ways.· Your answers will provide you with general categories of physical activities that are appropriate for you at this time. 1.· Two general categories are used in describing neural network organization.
· There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.· Firstly one must determine the grammatical categories of the words in the lattice.· Hence it was necessary to first determine the grammatical categories of the words in the corpus.· Each word is tagged with its grammatical category.· Indeed, it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here.· Example 1 above should be detected as an error by analysis of the grammatical categories of the words.· The process of learning words, learning their grammatical categories and acquiring them in correct combinations is very much a two-way affair.· We can see this very clearly if we consider the grammatical category of gender.
· What of higher categories - genera, orders, classes etc.?· He argued that all the higher taxonomic categories can be divided into five subordinate units that fall naturally into a circular pattern.· Baldwin was not in the highest category of orators.
· In the St Ann's study, the sick and disabled constituted the fourth largest category of the poor.· Card and Krueger studied restaurant workers, the largest category of minimum-wage employees.· Initially, you might discern the larger category of three different word groupings.· In every area it remained the largest category, although distribution was heavily skewed toward Canning Town.· Current assets, particularly accounts receivable and inventory, often represent the largest single category of asset investment for many firms.· The largest category of these is market loans.· It represents the largest category of federal payments to the states.
· To summarize, broadly speaking there are three main categories of such patients. 1.· The main categories of change, and the processes through which they work are set out in Figure 2.5.· The six main categories are discussed below.· Wegener's third main category of evidence was palaeontological.· What main categories of stock are likely to be held by a manufacturing business?· The answers to this question fall into two main categories.
· These flat roofing materials fall into three major categories: built-up felt roofing, mastic asphalt and single-ply membranes.· In this chapter we have seen the three major categories of financial statements.· The second major category of feeders is the scavenger group.· Ironically, such cases were among the only major categories in the study in which median awards declined.· It is likely too that non-manufacturing activities need to be broken down into major cost-driver categories.· The film still had nominees in all other major categories, including acting, directing and writing.· For a typical many-electron atom, such as Fe, we may divide the orbitals into three major categories.· The four major categories of cur-rent assets held by most firms are cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventory.
· This year's Better Environment Awards for Industry include a new category: for companies with bright ideas on recovering waste.· It took little time to discover that I was in a new category.· The new category of genetically modified organisms has been subject to far less testing than one should reasonably expect.· The hottest new category of online freebies is full Internet access.· A whole new tragic category of bankrupts are in the making.· It codified previous provisions excluding aliens and added a long list of new categories of persons to be excluded.· While there was scepticism about property funds, there was general initial hostility to the other new categories.· You can now drag and drop any folder, or shortcut within a folder, and place them within your new category.
· Many seven-day members disapproved of members in other categories, such as social having full voting rights.· There are other higher-level categories, such as Strategic, which requires information from all areas for planning purposes.· It is essential to realise at the outset that desktop publishing software is totally unlike any other software product category.· What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions?· While there was scepticism about property funds, there was general initial hostility to the other new categories.· No other category of asset came close to rivalling that performance.· There are three other categories: widowed, separated and divorced.· The possibilities are enormous; other leaders may reveal other categories.
· Indeed, it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here.· We have examined the class situation of a particular category of workers at a particular site.· Now, in a similar tradition, comes the particular category of assault called acquaintance violence.· Therefore, the degree to which official statistics underestimate the actual level of crime depends on the particular category of crime.· A merger is essentially a particular category of takeover; no special distinction is drawn in this book between mergers and takeovers.· This approach assumes that female psychologists in a particular category are all the same.· In the second consultation south of the border the scope of the registers was reduced from all land, to particular categories.· The new Legal Aid Board would accordingly be given power to make alternative arrangements for the provision of particular categories of work.
· Accounting for certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities classifies investments in three separate categories.· Included in a separate category are those allowed entry because they proved they have unique employment skills.· Almost twenty separate categories are listed but there are also pages and pages of other activities which defy classification.· The judging addresses seven separate but related categories worth a total of I, 000 points.· The present case does not fall clearly into any of these separate categories.· Maslow's hierarchy isolates needs for self-esteem as a separate motivating category.· He described his experience thus: There are two types of approach falling into two separate categories.· Centres should note, that to recognise student achievement on more than one instrument, modules have been given separate instrumental categories.
· For the first time, Polaroid will recognise student entries with a special category.· These are all special categories that need institutional care.· Should they not be investigated as a special category of people affected?· Family stories, such as the ones about my Aunt Naomi belong to a special category.· Everywhere save Britain the constitution is defined as a special category of law.· But since Derrida has no special category for literature,. this solution would clearly be of no use to him.· These special categories, forming a substantial part of the collection, present special difficulties because of their age, condition and value.· In-laws Relationships with in-laws form a special category of kin relationships.
· Exemptions Various categories of vehicle are exempt from the need to obtain an operating licence.· Look at the various categories with them and show them the lines where they can add their own descriptors. 4.· The Validation Statistics present totals for the various categories of results.· Figure 1 shows striking declines in death rates for various age categories from 1930 to 1975.· The various categories of operating expenditure are broadly in line with budget for the year.· So much so that, when the various category prizes were announced, he all but swept the board.· Table 11, below, shows how 3978 items issued in the course of the exercise were distributed among the various categories.· There could be a four percent difference in the mortgage rate between the various categories.
NOUN· This is true for every age category and every income category.· And their suicide rate is two to three times higher than ours in every age category.· There will be races for both men and women, as well as for a variety of different age categories.· It was unclear why the last man in the age category did not get tested.· Figure 1 shows striking declines in death rates for various age categories from 1930 to 1975.
VERB· At least some of the seven small buildings just outside the military compounds at Corbridge may also belong in this category.· This series belongs to the latter category, believe it.· The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category.· Family stories, such as the ones about my Aunt Naomi belong to a special category.· Language has always been regarded as belonging among these secondary categories.· Have the students name some other things which belong in each category. 2.· Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed.· The essence of any collection of stamps or of teapots must be that each specimen belongs in a distinct category.
· The competition is divided into two categories: Professionals and Amateurs, with substantial prizes for the winners of each section.· The program provides many different pieces of artwork, divided clearly into categories.· In the format for the interviews, the external information was divided into five categories as listed below.· The games on the site are divided into two categories: friendlies and tournaments.· The interactions are divided phenomenologically into four categories.· The many forms of atheism can usefully be divided into two categories.· To put computer images to work, they need to be divided into two categories.· Block Funding Under block funding trainees will be divided into five categories or premium levels.
· Instructions fall into four categories: arithmetic-logical, memory access, branch, and miscellaneous.· Generally speaking, however, they appear to fall into two categories: external and internal.· Team kites fall into several categories, chosen for precision flying or ballet and to suit the wind conditions.· Less than one percent of homicides recorded nationwide last year fell into this category, McCrary said.· If you fall into this category and have a low income, you may be entitled to Poll Tax Benefit.· The trick is figuring out which kids will fall into which category.· Of course, as far as headhunters are concerned, these companies fall into the category of poaching grounds.· Entrepreneurial organizations clearly fall into the task-oriented category.
· The reaction against this structure has produced forms of politics that do not fit into traditional political categories.· The set of services that fits into this category, however, may well be negligible.· We do not know what sort of a variable it is; it does not seem to fit into any category.· Perhaps 15 percent to 20 percent of the men referred by courts fit this category, he says.· We fit into the latter category in these terms, but not in our own.· Certain chronic or terminal ailments may fit into this category, as may negative aspects of membership of a minority group.
· This year's Better Environment Awards for Industry include a new category: for companies with bright ideas on recovering waste.· Mrs Cigans tells the children to sit at one end of the table but mercifully does not include me in this category.· Not all the interests in land known to the law were included in the category of real property.· It is now necessary to expand the accounting equation to include the last two categories of data, revenues and expenses.· Dramatised television and radio productions can be included in this category.· See Table 2-I for a list of seizures included in this category.· We can include in this category empathy or intuition, and also telepathy.· The term broadly includes the commonly-used categories of fluorescence and phosphorescence.
WORD FAMILYnouncategorycategorizationverbcategorize
a group of people or things that are all of the same typecategory of There are five categories of workers. people in the over-45 age category Seats are available in eight of the ten price categories.fall into/belong in/fit into a category Voters fall into three main categories. Williams’ style does not fit easily into the category of jazz.COLLOCATIONSverbsbelong to a category· A lot of water plants belong to this category.fall/come into a category· The data we collected fell into two categories.fit into a category· Rogers doesn’t fit into either category.put somebody/something into categories· People are individuals and you can’t really put them into categories.group somebody/something into categories· Let’s start by grouping the books into categories.divide/split something into categories· The exhibition of 360 paintings is divided into three categories.adjectivesa broad/general category· Our range of programmes come into three broad categories.the main category· This is the main category of patients.· There are two main categories of university fees.a major category· a major category of vehicle· Theft is one of the major categories of crime.a special category (=one that nothing else belongs to)· The constitution was defined as a special category of law.a distinct/separate category (=clearly different from others)· Animals fall into distinct categories.