The difference between Category and Family

When used as nouns, category means a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria, whereas family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption).


Family is also adjective with the meaning: suitable for children and adults.

check bellow for the other definitions of Category and Family

  1. Category as a noun:

    A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

    Examples:

    "This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category."

    "I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel."

  2. Category as a noun (mathematics):

    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.

    Examples:

    "One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows."

    "Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a [[category]] consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a [[category]]'s composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid."

  1. Family as a noun (countable):

    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.

    Examples:

    "Our family lives in town."

  2. Family as a noun (countable):

    An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

  3. Family as a noun (countable):

    A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

    Examples:

    "crime family'', ''Mafia family'"

    "This is my fraternity family at the university."

    "Our company is [[one]] [[big]] [[happy]] family."

  4. Family as a noun (countable, taxonomy):

    A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

    Examples:

    "Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae."

  5. Family as a noun (countable):

    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.

    Examples:

    "Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family."

  6. Family as a noun (countable, music):

    A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

    Examples:

    "the brass family;  the violin family'"

  7. Family as a noun (countable, linguistics):

    A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

    Examples:

    "the Indo-European language family;  the Afro-Asiatic language family'"

  8. Family as a noun:

    Examples:

    "The dog was kept as a family pet."

    "For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic."

  1. Family as an adjective:

    Suitable for children and adults.

    Examples:

    "It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant."

    "Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies."

  2. Family as an adjective:

    Conservative, traditional.

    Examples:

    "The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality."

  3. Family as an adjective (slang):

    Homosexual.

    Examples:

    "I knew he was family when I first met him."