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How to use subcategory in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Subcategory means with respect to a given category; a narrower category. Example: “The moment subcategories of the overall population are denied rights, the rights of all are threatened.”

Examples of subcategory by meaning

nounWith respect to a given category; a narrower category.

  • The moment subcategories of the overall population are denied rights, the rights of all are threatened.2005 August 8, Leslie Feinberg, “1952 court victory against anti-gay charges”, in Workers World
  • I have categories within subcategories because I get so many submissions about poop and potty training.2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN
  • On the other hand, the label of “feminist” is beginning to feel more like a subcategory on Netflix – an algorithmic signpost – than a meaningful description of art.2024 March 13, Beatrice Loazya, “Is Poor Things a feminist film? Is Barbie? These have become meaningless questions”, in The Guardian

More sentences with subcategory

  • Some authors on asexuality have attempted to create subcategories of aesthetic attractions as well.2023, Maya Ghosh Lisbin, A-Spec: Conceptualizing asexual identity, experience and phenomenological form, Brandeis University (thesis)…. From the entry skolioromantic
  • The first subcategory is what I choose to call Fat Fingers Syndrome.2005, William Carroll, “Just Not Your Type?”, in The Untied Stats on American: And Other Computer Assisted Writing Errors, Lincoln, Neb.…. From the entry fat finger
  • One of the subcategories of the traditional toponyms (and, at the same time, of the traditional urbanonyms) are the horonyms.2018, Maryana Dolynska, “Some Principles of Interdisciplinary Investigation for Recreating the Historical Topography of Urban Spaces”, in…. From the entry horonym
  • Pollutant parameters found in the "common metals" subcategory of raw wastestream from sampled plants are shown in Table 4.4.2008, Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Yung-Tse Hung, Advances in Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment, page 146. From the entry wastestream
  • Ash-blonde and strawberry blonde are satisfactory taxonyms of blonde, but they are by no means the optimal subcategories of BLONDE.2004, William Croft, D. Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry taxonym
  • Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative.2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog. From the entry Africanjujuism
  • We give sufficient conditions to obtain left determined model structures on a full reflective subcategory, on a full coreflective subcategory and on a comma category.2015, Philippe Gaucher, “About left determined model categories”, in arXiv. From the entry coreflective
  • We introduce syntomic coefficients and show that in dimension zero they form a full triangulated subcategory of the derived category of potentially semistable Galois representations.2015, Frédéric Déglise, Wiesława Nizioł, “On p-adic absolute Hodge cohomology and syntomic coefficients, I”, in arXiv. From the entry syntomic
  • Grammars of several languages traditionally list a subcategory of monopersonal verbs that occur only in the third-person but not in the first or second.2000, G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Morphology, Walter de Gruyter, page 650. From the entry monopersonal
  • This condition arises from cheese-related trauma (I'll leave it up to you to imagine what this might entail) and it's often considered a subcategory of cibophobia.2013 October 28, Max Hill, “Fear Factor”, in The Peak, volume 145, number 9, Simon Fraser University, page 15. From the entry cibophobia
  • Various subcategories of discontinuity (implicit, internal, modal, external) can be applied, to demonstrate the adaptational and disorientative function of art within different media and historical periods.2001, Ken Ireland, Sequential Dynamics of Narrative. From the entry disorientative

Meaning of subcategory

  1. noun With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
  2. noun A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose composition rule is a restriction of the parent category's.

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Questions about subcategory in a sentence

How do you use subcategory in a sentence?
Subcategory is used as a noun. For example: “The moment subcategories of the overall population are denied rights, the rights of all are threatened.”
What is a short sentence with subcategory?
“The first subcategory is what I choose to call Fat Fingers Syndrome.”
What does subcategory mean?
Subcategory means with respect to a given category; a narrower category.

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