different between category vs derm

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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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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

• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

Ancient Greek ????? (dérma, “skin”).

Noun

derm

1. (anatomy) The integument of animal; the skin.
2. Alternative form of dermis

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

derm (plural derms)

1. (slang) Clipping of dermatologist.

Etymology 3

From a borrowing of Afrikaans derm (“intestine”), related to Dutch darm (“intestine”). Doublet of tharm.

Noun

derm (plural derms)

1. (South Africa, slang, usually in the plural) guts

   What are you going to do with the fish derms?

   I saw an accident and a girl was lying on the pavement and her derms were all hanging out.

References

• 1978: A Dictionary of South African English. Ed. Jean Branford. Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• D-MER, Drem, E-DRM, EDMR, EMDR, merd

Afrikaans

Noun

derm (plural derms)

1. intestine, gut

Related terms

• ingewande