Category vs Catalogue - What's the difference?
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A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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(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.
A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
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A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.
A list of all the publications in a library.
(US) A university calendar.
(computing, dated) A directory listing.
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To put into a catalogue.
To make a catalogue of.
To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.
As nouns the difference between category and catalogue
is that category is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria while catalogue is a systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.As a verb catalogue is
to put into a catalogue.category
English
(wikipedia category)Noun
(categories)- 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.
- 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 alsoDerived terms
* category mistake * category theory * conceptual category * perceptual category * subcategory * supercategoryExternal links
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Alternative forms
* catalogNoun
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- The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.
- It has two extra options using extended syntax. CAT - an extended catalogue but not as detailed as some I've seen. ( The reason that the Spectrum CAT command is restricted is that it cleverly uses the 512 bytes data buffer of the microdrive channel to sort the filenames - hence the limit of 50 ten-character filenames )