different between category vs series

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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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin seri?s, from serere (“to join together, bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.?i?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??iz/, /?si?iz/
• Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres

Noun

series (plural series)

1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

   Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence

2. (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals

   Synonyms: show, program

3. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{a_{i}}}$ of a given sequence a_i.

4. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

5. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
7. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
8. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
9. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Usage notes

• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

Synonyms

• serie (obsolete)

Derived terms

• in series
• (media, television) TV series
• (electrical) series-wound

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shir?zu)

Translations

Adjective

series (not comparable)

1. (electronics) Connected one after the other in a circuit.

   Antonym: parallel

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• reises, ressie, seiser

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s???i.?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se??i.es/

Verb

series

1. second-person singular conditional form of ser

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

series

1. Plural form of serie

Interlingua

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Latin

Etymology

From ser? (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.e?s/, [?s???ie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ri.es/, [?s???i?s]

Noun

seri?s f (genitive seri??); fifth declension

1. a row
2. a succession
3. a series
4. a chain

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• series in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• series in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

series

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of seriar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of seriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?jes/, [?se.?jes]

Etymology 1

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Etymology 2

Verb

series

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of seriar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of seriar.

Swedish

Noun

series

1. indefinite genitive singular of serie