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category
/ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/
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Keep the primary stress on “cat.”
Use four syllables, with a light second vowel and a secondary beat on gor. Use a hard g in that later syllable, then finish with an unstressed ee.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“Each item belongs to a category.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does category mean?
noun
- A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/
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And similarly, in each category of crimes, the influence of the determining conditions varies greatly according to the special forms of crime.
Streams and large rivers, in so far as we speak of their defence, belong, like mountains, to the category of strategic barriers.
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The second category, which plays a capital part in all national disturbances, consists of a subversive social residue dominated by a criminal mentality.
Thus far only has it the power of determining the existence of things by time, and conceiving them under the category of duration.
Swept up in what I view as a self-righteous crusade against chemical agriculture, they included all fertilizers in this category for tactical reasons.