Category vs Label - 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 small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
A company that sells records.
(computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
(computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
(heraldiccharge) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
(obsolete) A tassel.
A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
(architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
Label is a synonym of category.
As nouns the difference between category and label
is that category is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria while label is a small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.As a verb label is
to put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).category
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(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
* labell (non-standard)Noun
(en noun)- We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.
- The label says this silk scarf should not be washed in the washing machine.
- Although the label priced this poster at three pounds, I got it for two.
- Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".
- The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.
- Storage devices can be given by label or ID.
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Synonyms
* (small ticket) sign, tag, ticket * (name given to something or someone) category, pigeonhole * (heraldry) lambelDerived terms
* designer labelVerb
- The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.
- He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.