a word game where players attempt to list words that fit into particular categories, all starting with the same letter.
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categories
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for categories.
Editorial note
You can objectively determine if a word is a noun, verb, adjective, etc (given context, as some words can fall in several categories).
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Quick take
a word game where players attempt to list words that fit into particular categories, all starting with the same letter.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of categories gathered in one view.
The (Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai; Latin Categoriae or Praedicamenta) a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition.
On May 14, 1867, the 27–year-old Charles Sanders Peirce, who eventually founded pragmatism, presented a paper entitled "On a New List of Categories" to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for categories.
N
a word game where players attempt to list words that fit into particular categories, all starting with the same letter.
N
The (Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai; Latin Categoriae or Praedicamenta) a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition.
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On May 14, 1867, the 27–year-old Charles Sanders Peirce, who eventually founded pragmatism, presented a paper entitled "On a New List of Categories" to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Example sentences
You can objectively determine if a word is a noun, verb, adjective, etc (given context, as some words can fall in several categories).
Graphical calculi for monoidal categories date back to Kelly and Laplaza (1980), with later refinements by Joyal-Street and Yetter.
The charts are much more useful when they all present the categories in the same order.
Looking across a variety of software categories, from mobile to operating systems to infrastructure to tooling to consumer, the trendline is downward in terms of their up-front realizable revenue potential.
Or even three categories showing dunks/layups, 2 point jump shots, and 3 point jump shots.
Wouldn't a greater bias to fund them lead to worse outcomes for those categories?
I have seen bugs caused by unsigned and signed integer usage that fit into other categories, though.
Worldwide, we're used on more than 90% of requests across all device categories.
This was around 40% positive across the categories.
There are a few different categories: Experimental, Informational, Historic, and Standards Track.
It may be more accurate to say that The Valley has different standards for software development on web & mobile than employers in other regions and in different categories.
Amazon employees signed up, sometimes with fake addresses and then immediately began running wide ranging searches across numerous categories in completely separate areas across the country from their primary residence.
Quote examples
This is a fundamental difference between DSM diagnosis (which is putting people in descriptive categories, without explaining "why") and medical diagnosis of many conditions with a known cause (which means identifying an explanation such as a virus).
By way of comparison, most countries have multiple distinct crimes or not-crimes that "killing someone" can fall into: killing an enemy soldier in wartime is generally okayed, offing a fetus is okayed in many countries, killing someone by accident is (broadly speaking) manslaughter, and doing it intentionally (if it doesn't fall into one of the above categories) is murder.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use categories in a sentence?
You can objectively determine if a word is a noun, verb, adjective, etc (given context, as some words can fall in several categories).
What does categories mean?
a word game where players attempt to list words that fit into particular categories, all starting with the same letter.
What part of speech is categories?
categories is commonly used as N.