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category | culture |

As a noun category

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

As a verb culture is

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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

    culture

    English

    (Culture) (Culture) (Culture) (Culture)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Farming as rocket science , passage=Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.}}
  • The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture , ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.}}
  • (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  • (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
  • The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
  • (botany) Cultivation.
  • * http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
  • The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
  • (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
  • A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.

    Derived terms

    * alliumculture * anticulture * coleculture * cucurbitculture * culture hero * cyberculture * legumeculture * macroculture * microculture * monoculture * multiculture * olericulture * overculture * solanaculture * subculture * permaculture * uberculture * underculture

    Verb

    (cultur)
  • To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
  • To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
  • See also

    * colonus * colonia * column * cycle * wheel English collective nouns ----