Difference between Class and Category

What is the difference between Class and Category?

Class as a noun is a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. while Category as a noun is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

Class

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To assign to a class.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: great; fabulous

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class. The division of society into classes. Admirable behavior; elegance. A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher. A series of classes covering a single subject. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation. A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set. A collection of sets definable by a shared property. Best of its kind. A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

Example sentence: In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

Category

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.

Example sentence: I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again.

We hope you now know whether to use Class or Category in your sentence.

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