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English

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Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-class.ogg
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Etymology

From , from .

Noun

  1. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
  2. : The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
  3. :: Often used to imply membership of a large class.
  4. ::: This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
  5. 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.
  6. The division of society into classes.
  7. : Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
  8. Admirable behavior; elegance.
  9. : Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
  10. {{context|countable|and|uncountable}} A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
  11. : The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
  12. A series of classes covering a single subject.
  13. : I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
  14. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
  15. : The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
  16. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
  17. : I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
  18. {{context|biology|taxonomy|countable}} A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank
  19. : Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
  20. A set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior.
  21. A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
  22. : The class of all sets is not a set.


Derived terms

Translations

Verb

{{en-verb|classes|classing|classed}}

  1. To assign to a class.
  2. : I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.


Translations

Adjective

  1. In the Context of great; fabulous


Related terms

Category:Semantics

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class,
collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to
call, E. claim, haul.]
1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing
common characteristics; as, the different classes of
society; the educated class; the lower classes.
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2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same
standing, or pursuing the same studies.
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3. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects,
grouped together on account of their common
characteristics, in any classification in natural science,
and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
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4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
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She had lost one class energies. --Macaulay.
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5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church
or congregation is divided, and which is under the
supervision of a class leader.
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6. One session of formal instruction in which one or more
teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may
be one of a course of classes, or a single special
session.
[PJC]

7. A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the
quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social
adeptness.
[PJC]

Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed
by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point
to the curve. A circle is of the second class.

Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class
under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and
relegious instruction.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed
(kl[.a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] [Cf. F. classer. See
Class, n.]
1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class;
as, to class words or passages.
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Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead
of to class. --Dana.
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2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or
place in, a class or classes.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Class \Class\, v. i.
To be grouped or classed.
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The genus or family under which it classes. --Tatham.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), a.
exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act.
Opposite of low-class [informal]

Syn: high-class. [PJC]
WordNet class
n 1: people having the same social or economic status; "the
working class"; "an emerging professional class" [syn: {social
class}, socio-economic class]
2: a body of students who are taught together; "early morning
classes are always sleepy" [syn: form, grade]
3: education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
"he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not
unknown in college classes" [syn: course, {course of
study}, course of instruction]
4: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there
are two classes of detergents" [syn: category, family]
5: a body of students who graduate together; "the class of
'97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: year]
6: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
[syn: division]
7: elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"
8: (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
v : arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you
classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
[syn: classify, sort, assort, sort out, separate]
Moby Dictionary
account , adherents , advantageousness , agreeableness , allot ,
alphabetize , analyze , animal kingdom , antonomasia , appraise ,
appreciate , arrange , ashram , assembly , assess , assign , assort ,
auspiciousness , bearing , beneficialness , benevolence , benignity ,
binomial nomenclature , biosystematics , biosystematy , biotype ,
birth , blood , body , bracket , branch , brand , break down , breed ,
breeding , brethren , brood , caliber , call , caste , catalog ,
categorize , category , church , churchgoers , clan , classification ,
classify , codify , cogency , colony , color , commonwealth , commune ,
communion , community , condition , confession , congregation ,
consider , deme , denomination , descent , description , desert , digest ,
discernment , disciples , distinction , divide , division , domain ,
echelon , economic class , elegance , endogamous group , estate ,
estimate , evaluate , excellence , expedience , extended family ,
extraction , factor , fairness , faith , family , favorableness ,
feather , figure , file , fineness , first-rateness , flock , fold , folk ,
followers , footing , form , form an estimate , gauge , genotype , genre ,
gens , genus , give an appreciation , glossology , goodliness ,
goodness , grace , grade , grain , group , grouping , guess , head ,
heading , healthiness , helpfulness , hierarchy , hold , house ,
identify , ilk , importance , index , ism , judge , kidney , kin , kind ,
kindness , kingdom , kinship group , label , laity , laymen , league ,
level , line , lineage , list , make an estimation , mark , matriclan ,
measure , merit , minyan , moiety , nation , nature , niceness ,
nomenclature , nonclerics , nonordained persons , nuclear family ,
onomastics , onomatology , order , orismology , parish , parishioners ,
part , patriclan , pedigree , people , persuasion , phratria , phratry ,
phyle , phylum , pigeonhole , place , place-names , place-naming ,
plant kingdom , pleasantness , polyonymy , position , power structure ,
precedence , predicament , presence , prestige , prize , profitableness ,
quality , race , range , rank , rate , rating , realm , reckon ,
refinement , regard , rewardingness , rubric , savoir faire , school ,
score , sect , section , seculars , separate , sept , series , set ,
settlement , sheep , sift , skillfulness , social class , society , sort ,
sort out , soundness , species , sphere , stage , stamp , standing ,
station , status , stem , stirps , stock , strain , stratum , stripe ,
style , subcaste , subclass , subdivide , subdivision , subfamily ,
subgenus , subgroup , subkingdom , suborder , subspecies , subtribe ,
superclass , superfamily , superiority , superorder , superspecies ,
systematics , tabulate , taste , taxonomy , terminology , thrash out ,
tier , title , toponymy , totem , track , tribe , trinomialism , type ,
usefulness , validity , valuate , value , variety , virtue ,
virtuousness , weigh , wholeness , winnow , worth , year


CLASS Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling
CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling Service
FOLDOC class

1. The prototype for an object in an
object-oriented language; analogous to a derived type in a
procedural language. A class may also be considered to be a
set of objects which share a common structure and behaviour.
The structure of a class is determined by the {class
variables} which represent the state of an object of that
class and the behaviour is given by a set of methods
associated with the class.

Classes are related in a class hierarchy. One class may be
a specialisation (a "subclass") of another (one of its
"superclasses") or it may be composed of other classes or it
may use other classes in a client-server relationship. A
class may be an abstract class or a concrete class.

See also signature.

2. See type class.

3. One of three types of Internet addresses
distinguished by their most significant bits.

3. A language developed by the Andrew Project.
It was one of the first attempts to add object-oriented
features to C.

(1995-05-01)


CLASS. The order according to which are arranged or distributed, or are supposed to be arranged or distributed, divers persons or things; thus we say, a class of legatees. 2. When a legacy is given to a class of individuals, all who answer the description at the time the will takes effect, are entitled; and though the expression be in the plural, yet if there be but one, he shall take the whole. 3 M'Cord, Ch. R. 440. 3. When a bond is given to a class of persons, it is good, and all composing that class are entitled to sue upon it; but if the obligor be a member of such class, the bond is void, because a man cannot be obligor and obligee at the same time; as, if a bond be given to the justices of the county court, and at the time the obligor is himself one of said justices. 3 Dev. 284, 287,289; 4 Dev. 882. 4. When a charge is made against a class of society, a profession, an order or body of men, and cannot possibly import a personal application to private injury, no action lies; but if any one of the class have sustained special damages in consequence of such charge, he may maintain an action. 17 Wend. 52, 23, 186. See 12 John. 475. When the charge is against one of a class, without designating which, no action lies; as, where three persons had been examined as witnesses, and the defendant said in addressing himself to them, "one of you three is perjured." 1 Roll. Ab. 81; Cro. Jac. 107; 16 Pick. 132.
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