different between category vs calibre

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English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin cat?goria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (kat?goría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt?????i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt??(?)?i/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?k?t??(?)?i/, /?k?t???o??i/
• Hyphenation: cat?e?go?ry, cat?e?gory

Noun

category (plural categories)

1. 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.

2. (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.

Synonyms

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

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Translations

Further reading

• category in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• category in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæl.?.b?/
• Hyphenation: cal?i?ber

Noun

calibre (countable and uncountable, plural calibres)

1. Alternative form of caliber

Usage notes

• More common than caliber in UK, etc

Related terms

• calibrate

Anagrams

• caliber

French

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (q?lib).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.lib?/

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. calibre

Descendants

Verb

calibre

1. first-person singular present indicative of calibrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of calibrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of calibrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of calibrer
5. second-person singular imperative of calibrer

Further reading

• “calibre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ciblera

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??lib??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka??ib?i/

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. caliber / calibre (dimension)
2. gauge (mathematics, physics)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?lib?e/, [ka?li.???e]

Etymology 1

From French calibre.

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. calibre
2. calipers
3. jig, gauge (tool)

Derived terms

• calibrar

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: kalibre

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

calibre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of calibrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calibrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calibrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of calibrar.

Further reading

• “calibre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.