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1. In certain languages, the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in categories such as case, number, and gender.
   词形某些语言，词，词形容词，数性等词形
2. One of the basic states or classifications described by Aristotle into which all things can be placed; a category.
   范畴亚里士德描绘置状态；范畴

Category \Cat"e*go*ry\, n.; pl. {Categories}. [L. categoria, Gr.
?, fr. ? to accuse, affirm, predicate; ? down, against + ? to
harrangue, assert, fr. ? assembly.]
1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects
of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they
can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable
conception; a predicament.

The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek
word, the latter its literal translation in the
Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his
followers as an enumeration of all things capable of
being named; an enumeration by the summa genera
i.e., the most extensive classes into which things
could be distributed. --J. S. Mill.

2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are
both in the same category.

There is in modern literature a whole class of
writers standing within the same category. --De
Quincey.