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# category

«category» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of things or people that are alike in some way:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a category, categories)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A category is a group of things or people that are alike in some way: «Put the animals into categories». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#m1)

2) A category is a class in a competition or list: «the under-10 category». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science pupils sort things into categories: odd and even numbers, mammals and reptiles, solids, liquids and gases. In data handling, a bar chart shows how many items are in each category. In competitions there are categories by age. Phrases: fall into a category, in the category of.

### examples

- Sort these shapes into two categories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#x1)
- Whales are in the category of mammals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#x2)
- She won the under-ten category in the art contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#x3)
- The bar chart shows four categories of pets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#x4)
- Which category does a tomato belong to? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#x5)
- We put the books into categories: fiction and non-fiction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/#x6)

### note

Plural «categories». Verb «categorise» (UK) or «categorize» (US). Pronounced «CAT-uh-gree» in the UK and «CAT-uh-gor-ee» in the USA. In charts each category gets its own bar or slice.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «category» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/category/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.