Difference between Family and Category

What is the difference between Family and Category?

Family as a noun is a father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family. while Category as a noun is a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

Family

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suitable for children and adults. Conservative, traditonal. Homosexual.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family. A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom. A kin, tribe; also called extended family. A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. A group of people who live together. A group of people similar to related by blood, marriage, law, or custom. Collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group. Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. A group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production. A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

Example sentence: A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

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: You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

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

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