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Category vs Bigger - What's the difference?

category | bigger |

As a noun category

is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

As an adjective bigger is

comparative of big.

As a verb bigger is

to make or become bigger.

category

English

(wikipedia category)

Noun

(categories)
  • A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
  • *
    • The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories'' of various types. Thus, words like ''boy'', ''girl'', ''man'', ''woman'', etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category''' of Nouns, whereas words like ''a'', ''the'', ''this'', and ''that'' are traditionally said to belong to the ' category of Determiners.
    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.
  • (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.

    Synonyms

    * (group to which items are assigned) class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type * See also

    Derived terms

    * category mistake * category theory * conceptual category * perceptual category * subcategory * supercategory

    Related terms

    * categorical * categorise / categorize * categorial

    External links

    * *

    bigger

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (big)
  • * 1812 , A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:
    • That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger , and most stronger party,
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
  • * {{quote-book, 1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume=1, page=322, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=mny99S_fR4AC&pg=PA322, edition=2009 ed.
    • , passage=She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered , sir. }}
  • * {{quote-book, 1971, citation
    • , passage=But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
    I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 2002, August 5, Mark Gibbs, IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons, Network World, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4hgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT69, page=69
    • , passage=The money they splurged to the board's delight
    Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}}

    See also

    * biggers