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Category vs. Catalogue — What's the Difference?

Category vs. Catalogue — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Category and Catalogue

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Category

A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics
The various categories of research

Catalogue

A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations.

Category

Each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.

Catalogue

A publication, such as a book or pamphlet, containing such a list or display
A catalog of fall fashions.
A seed catalog.

Category

A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
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Catalogue

A list or enumeration
A catalog of complaints.

Category

Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in all things.

Catalogue

A card catalog.

Category

Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.

Catalogue

To make an itemized list of
Catalog a record collection.

Category

A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.

Catalogue

To list or include in a catalog.

Category

A property or structural unit of a language, such as a part of speech or a type of phrase.

Catalogue

To classify (a book or publication, for example) according to a categorical system.

Category

A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.

Catalogue

To make a catalog.

Category

(Mathematics) A class of objects, together with a class of morphisms between those objects, and an associative composition rule for those morphisms. Categories are used to study a wide variety of mathematical constructions in a similar way.

Catalogue

To be listed in a catalog
An item that catalogs for 200 dollars.

Category

A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.
I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.

Catalogue

A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.

Category

(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.

Catalogue

A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.

Category

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
The categories or predicaments - the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language - were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed.

Catalogue

A list of all the publications in a library.

Category

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category.

Catalogue

A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.

Category

A collection of things sharing a common attribute;
There are two classes of detergents

Catalogue

(US) A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.

Category

A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme

Catalogue

A directory listing.

Catalogue

(music) A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.

Catalogue

A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things, often similar.

Catalogue

To put into a catalogue.

Catalogue

To make a catalogue of.

Catalogue

To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.

Catalogue

(philately) to value or sort stamps using a catalogue

Catalogue

A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.

Catalogue

To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.

Catalogue

A complete list of things; usually arranged systematically;
It does not pretend to be a catalogue of his achievements

Catalogue

A book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things;
He found it in the Sears catalog

Catalogue

Make a catalog of

Catalogue

Make a catalogue, compile a catalogue of something

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