Word Finder - class

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A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

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Often used to imply membership of a large class.

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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.

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The division of society into classes.

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Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.

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Admirable behavior; elegance.

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Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.

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A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

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The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.

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A series of lessons covering a single subject.

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I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.

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A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

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The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.

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A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

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I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.

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

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Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.

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Best of its kind.

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It is the class of Italian bottled waters.

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A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

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A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

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Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.

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A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

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A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

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an abstract base class

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One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

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To assign to a class; to classify.

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I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.

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To be grouped or classed.

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To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

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Great; fabulous

Now tell me what kind of class you're attending.

He sounded like a first class jerk from the beginning.

He skipped the class on good nom de plumes.

These look like something a college anatomy class used—last week.

She faced the class.

I went from the office to class and then from class to the plane.

Dean questioned Janet's scholastic ability to himself and cynically wondered if today's class was Vacuuming For Beginners or Dusting 101.

Kutuzov had received the Order of St. George of the First Class and the Emperor showed him the highest honors, but everyone knew of the imperial dissatisfaction with him.

Their recruits came from the elite class, while the regular army came from the poor.

So the historians of this class, by mutually destroying one another's positions, destroy the understanding of the force which produces events, and furnish no reply to history's essential question.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual places and met in certain habitual groups.

An institution upholding honor, the source of emulation, is one similar to the Legion d'honneur of the great Emperor Napoleon, not harmful but helpful to the success of the service, but not a class or court privilege.

Betsy and I claimed world class ability while Quinn just rolled his eyes.

When he returned to the main room, Harrigan had left to talk to a class of grade-school children, a job at which he excelled, much to the pleasure of the others who shunned playing Officer Friendly.

Even though her ten year class reunion was scheduled for Saturday afternoon, Alex chose that morning to start her training.

When I first met Howie in class I thought he was just this lonely guy but he seemed nice and we had coffee a time of two.

Jonathan hurried off to bible class and it was Carmen's turn to help out with the infants, so she took Destiny with her.

Now your 'contents' are something extra special so regardless of the packaging, you're still first class to me.

Unlike the regular military, the political elite's security private forces were made up of children from the upper class to prevent the elite class from becoming polluted by the poor.

Those under their care formed a class.

I thought I might just as well describe my pet in order to know it--order, vertebrate; division, quadruped; class, mammalia; genus, felinus; species, cat; individual, Tabby.

The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

He'd urged her to hide herself away when she wasn't at work with him, telling her tales of how bad the upper class was.

All belonged to the same totem or totemic class, and might be scattered throughout the tribe, though subject to the same marriage laws.

They form a natural transition to the second class.

The set viewed as a class has many orders.

She knew the manual labor class worked with their hands, but she didn't realize they used them to do more than serve the elite.

He won the Ireland scholarship in 1848 and obtained a first class in both the classical and the mathematical schools in 1849.

The canons respecting the clergy exhibit the clergy as already a special class with peculiar privileges, a more exacting moral standard, heavier penalties for delinquency.

The device of hereditary coat-armour, a growth of the 12th century, did much to define and mark out the noble class throughout Europe.

If, however, we turn to Australia, where sacrifice is unknown, we find more than ' one class of rites in which we can trace an idea akin to some forms of sacrifice.

The latter class is formed by waters that fall on the barren mountain-sides and rush down in torrents, forming in the valleys shallow bodies of water yellow with the mud held in suspension.

He graduated second (salutatorian) in his class in 1878, and began to study law in Cincinnati College, where he graduated in 1880, dividing the first prize for scholarship. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1880.

He graduated from Harvard in 1880 (in the class with Theodore Roosevelt), and the following year entered the banking house of Lee, Higginson & Co., in Boston.

The Fula form the aristocratic class.

The emir on his installation takes an oath of allegiance to the British Crown, and accepts the position of a chief of the first class under British rule.

Strictly, it is confined to the upper class from whom Sivaji's generals were mostly drawn, and who sometimes claim a Rajput origin.

Here he apparently did not especially distinguish himself, belonging to the class of bons ordinaires.

After tracing the origin of commerce, Turgot develops Quesnay's theory that the land is the only source of wealth, and divides society into three classes, the productive or agricultural, the salaried (stipendiee) or artisan class, and the land-owning class (classe disponible).

He also contemplated a thorough-going reform of the ferme generale, but contented himself, as a beginning, with imposing certain conditions on the leases as they were renewed - such as a more efficient personnel, and the abolition for the future of the abuse of the croupes (the name given to a class of pensions), a reform which Terray had shirked on finding how many persons in high places were interested in them, and annulling certain leases, such as those of the manufacture of gunpowder and the administration of the messageries, the former of which was handed over to a company with the scientist Lavoisier as one of its advisers, and the latter superseded by a quicker and more comfortable service of diligences which were nicknamed" turgotines."He also prepared a regular budget.

This task Bentham undertook, and he brought to it a mind absolutely free from professional or class feeling, or any other species of prejudice.

The class to which he belonged was the only one which could afford to initiate improvements.

The figure denoting the general average yield per acre of any class of crop needs readjustment after every successive harvest.

In 1 In the absence of experiments it is assumed that wheat is digested like other foods of the same class.

An important step in this direction was taken in 1896, when the senior class for steers, viz.

The only exception was in the case of the slowly-maturing Cheviot and mountain breeds, for which the second class was for wether sheep of any age above twelve months.

The standard of life of the ordinary well-to-do middle class in England, for example, includes not only food, clothing and shelter of a kind different in many respects from that of a similar class in other countries and of other classes in England, but a highly complicated mechanism, both public and private, for ministering to these primary needs, habits of social intercourse, educational and sanitary organization, recreative arrangements and many other elements.

Many influences operating for a long period of time on the character and the environment of a class go to determine its standard of life.

It implies the existence of a well-trained class engaged in the work of collecting information, and much organization both by the state and private bodies.