The difference between Category and Tribe

When used as nouns, category means a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria, whereas tribe means a socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.


Tribe is also verb with the meaning: to distribute into tribes or classes.

check bellow for the other definitions of Category and Tribe

  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. Tribe as a noun:

    A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.

  2. Tribe as a noun (anthropology):

    A society larger than a band but smaller than a state. A group of apes who live and work together.

  3. Tribe as a noun:

  4. Tribe as a noun (taxonomy):

    A hierarchal rank between family and genus.

  5. Tribe as a noun (stock breeding):

    A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

    Examples:

    "the Duchess tribe of shorthorns"

  1. Tribe as a verb (transitive):

    To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.