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How to pronounce categories in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms class, family
Type of collection, accumulation, assemblage, aggregation
Has types woodwind family, brass family, conjugation, declension, denomination, grammatical category, histocompatibility complex, paradigm, sex, stamp, substitution class, syntactic category, violin family
Derivation categorial, categoric, categorical, categorize
Type Words
Type of concept, construct, conception
Has types form, variety, kind, pigeonhole, rubric, way, sort
Derivation categorical, categorize, categorial

Examples of categories

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Government statisticians are only able to track safety for large job categories.
From the forbes.com
Kansas State beat writer Kellis Robinett was named a finalist in two categories.
From the kansas.com
Ecuador, for instance, has hiked tariffs on more than 600 categories of imports.
From the businessweek.com
Hunter Pence and Jeff Keppinger lead the Astros in the key offensive categories.
From the dailyherald.com
Paul Konerko ranks in the American League's top 10 in five offensive categories.
From the suntimes.com
Gurrumul won five of the eight categories up for grabs at the prestigious event.
From the ntnews.com.au
Having to type To-Do items, rather than selecting them from pre-made categories.
From the usatoday.com
Categories include best fan cover, most viral dance and best music hashtag meme.
From the freep.com
It brings order to our lives through the categories of past, present and future.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Class: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
  • A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
  • The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor.
  • In mathematics, a category is an algebraic structure consisting of a collection of "objects", linked together by a collection of "arrows" that have two basic properties: the ability to compose the arrows associatively and the existence of an identity arrow for each object. ...
  • In metaphysics (in particular, ontology), the different kinds or ways of being are called categories of being or simply categories. To investigate the categories of being is to determine the most fundamental and the broadest classes of entities. ...
  • Taxonomy (from Ancientu00A0Greek: u03C4u03ACu03BEu03B9u03C2 taxis, "arrangement", and -u03BDu03BFu03BCu03AFu03B1 -nomia, "method") is the science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups...
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