(n.) 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.
(n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
(2) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(3) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
(4) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
(5) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(6) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
(7) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(8) Older subjects in all diagnostic categories, including normal subjects, had higher postdexamethasone plasma cortisol levels.
(9) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(10) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
(11) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(12) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(13) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(14) Each setting was compared with the other two settings in each of the 18 ICHPPC categories.
(15) For the different age categories the best prediction formula for the FFM from body impedance, sex, age and anthropometric variables was calculated.
(16) On the other hand, when the global results were gathered according to male and female categories, the first one proved to be predominant.
(17) Classification into hazard categories depends on the overall strength of evidence that an agent may cause mutations in humans.
(18) Both categories frequently showed pellagrous pigmentation and mucocutaneous signs of B-vitamin deficiency.
(19) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(20) Alternatives for the selection of substantive clinical attributes, the overall structural format into which categories are organized, and construction procedures used in developing a psychopathologic taxonomy are elaborated, as are a number of criteria for evaluating the taxonomy's utility and efficacy.
Ilk
Definition:
(a.) Same; each; every.
Example Sentences:
(1) We show that preservation of the correct PE carboxyl-terminal amino acid sequence, REDLK, allows the toxins containing TGF alpha carboxyl inserts to retain significant cytotoxicity against target cells, since another molecule (PE4E-TGF alpha-ILK) containing a nonfunctional carboxyl-terminal sequence was over 100-fold less active.
(2) We need to get back something of that ilk – where each team has three or four players from the home countries at the start of every match."
(3) Fashion's current preoccupation with art is effectively the death knell of the minimalist look – most art (Donald Judd and his ilk aside) is about getting messy.
(4) It is as honest as the report that emerged the same day from the world’s climate scientists, which demonstrated that if Exxon Mobil and its ilk keep their promise to dig up their reserves and burn them, then the planet will no longer function effectively.
(5) It's harder to romanticise living in such a dwelling in NYC – a Londoner can live in a bedsit and be reminded of Fleur and her ilk, but a New Yorker might be apt to think of SROs – but not impossible; in order to survive here, you have to develop the ability to romanticise just about anything.
(6) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
(7) It is a much more natural creed for rightists, like Charles, who dream of an ancient pastoral world where material goods were the prerogative of his ilk.
(8) Never mind that it was the overwhelmingly Tory shire votes of Jacob Rees-Mogg ’s ilk that swung the referendum, while two thirds of Labour voters were remainers.
(9) Some of us enjoyed it so much that we were all for Griffin and his ilk appearing on television all the time, purely in the spirit of political fair play, you understand.
(10) The trouble is that these supposed victims are very, very able to defend themselves and their ilk.
(11) You go to an amazing venue, there are influential people in the room of all ilks, people you wouldn’t normally meet in your day job.
(12) But it's clear that Chimpanzee and its ilk have strayed from the evolutionary path of nature documentary film-making.
(13) Forbes and his ilk have reached a sort of quantum theory of food: the more they look, the more they see.
(14) Democracy forgets you, no one cares what you think, and governments will spend a lot less on you and your ilk.
(15) Perhaps what Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester calls the “jovial bigotry” of Farage and his ilk has helped channel their rage.
(16) "If our critical culture handled films of this ilk with something other than kid gloves, we might not have to continually address these same, tired questions.
(17) But there is no need to apologise to somebody of that ilk.” Leicester are on an 11-game winless run and are bottom of the Premier League going into Saturday’s match at West Ham United, who are fourth.
(18) He told the Guardian: “I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk.
(19) A Mail Online columnist declared : “Next time you hear someone say we are safer IN the EU – remember Brussels.” And in an astonishing removal of guilt from the terrorist murderers, added: “Merkel – and her ilk – blew up Brussels.” I will vote to remain within the European Union, even though I am critical of its current incarnation and want to change it.
(20) Though frequently labelled super-injunctions, they are not of the same ilk as the case that prompted the original coining of the term, because it referred to the fact that the very existence of the injunction must remain secret.