Word Finder - classes

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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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A class or order; sort; kind.

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An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.

How are classes going?

Cynthia was thrilled with her new job and her school classes were finally coming together.

They are divided into two classes.

She had continued her classes and was somehow maintaining acceptable grades.

Quinn was required to pick up extra classes when an older professor passed away suddenly.

The direct taxes fall into two classes.

I didn't have any classes today and I decided to take off work.

I can take classes in the off season.

Cattle and poultry are the principal classes of live stock.

The Code contemplates the whole population as falling into three classes, the amelu, the muskinu and the ardu.

The Code regulates the feudal position of certain classes.

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Two classes are recognized.

I find I get on faster, and do better work with Mr. Keith than I did in the classes at the Cambridge School, and I think it was well that I gave up that kind of work.

AlcohoLThe distillation of alcohol is in the hands of three classes of persons.

The central administration (administration centrale) comprises three classes of functions which together constitute Ia police.

In addition to the educational work done by the state, communes and private individuals, there exist in France a good many societies which disseminate instruction by giving courses of lectures and holding classes both for children and adults.

In many cases the action of these organizations has proved, at least temporarily, advantageous to the working classes.

Private institutions and working-class associations have striven to improve the intellectual conditions of the working classes.

To encourage the poorer classes of the people to become landholders, it was decided that the lots offered for sale should be small, and that the purchaser should be allowed to pay by five or ten yearly instalments.

The urban population, divided into two categories according to their taxable wealth, elects delegates direct to the college of the government (Guberniya), and is thus represented in the second degree; but the system of division into categories, according not to the number of taxpayers but to the amount they pay, gives a great preponderance to the richer classes.

These magistrates, as we have already seen, were originally appointed to control and protect the humbler classes.

He won favor by these means, and completed the levelling down of classes, which had been proceeding ever since the emergence of the communes.

Victor Emmanuel I., the king of Sardinia, was the only native ruler in the peninsula, and the Savoy dynasty was popular with all classes.

All this soon provoked discontent among the educated classes.

The upper classes were still to a large extent inoculated with French ideas, but the common people were either devoted to the dynasty or indifferent.

The masses were still more or less indifferent, but among the nobility and the educated middle Secret classes, cut off from all part in free political life, there societies, was developed either the spirit of despair at Italys The Car..

The lower classes provoked disorders, which were very serious at Leghorn, and were only quelled by Guerrazzis energy.

He made desperate efforts to conciliate the population, and succeeded with a few of the nobles, who were led to believe in the possibility of an Italian confederation, including Lombardy and Venetia which would be united to Austria by a personal union alone; but the immense majority of all classes rejected these advances, and came to regard union with Piedmont with increasing favor.

The prime cause in most cases was the unsatisfactory economic condition of the working classes, which they realized all the more vividly for the very improvements that had been made in it, while education and better communications enabled them to organize themselves.

The spirit of indiscipline had begun to reach the lower classes of state employees, especially the school teachers and the postal and telegraph clerks, and at one time it seemed as though the country were about to face a situation similar to that which arose in France in the spring of 1909.

The gradual elaboration of the sacrificial ceremonial, as the all-sufficient expression of religious devotion, and a constantly growing tendency towards theosophic and mystic speculation on the significance of every detail of the ritual, could not fail to create a demand for explanatory treatises of this kind, which, to enhance their practical utility, would naturally deal with the special texts and rites assigned in the ceremonial to the several classes of officiating priests.

As regards the Brahman, he would doubtless be chosen from one of those other three classes, but would be expected to have made himself thoroughly conversant with the texts and ritual details appertaining to all the officiating priests.

Another difference between the two documents concerns the towns and the trading classes.

Other provisions, the object of which had been to restrain John from demanding more money from various classes of his subjects, were also deleted, and the same fate befell such chapters as dealt with mere temporary matters.

In its fullest development, therefore, the sub-epithelial layer consists of four classes of cellelements.

If we seek for the reason of the difference between the scientific position of the doctrine of evolution in the days of Lamarck and that which it occupies now, we shall find it in the great accumulation of facts, the several classes of which have been enumerated above, under the second to the eighth heads.

In regard to crimes delicts (delits) were divided into classes for purposes of jurisdiction.

The pharmacists were divided into two classes, the stationarii, who sold simple drugs and non-magisterial preparations at a tariff determined by competent authorities, and the confectionarii, whose business it was to dispense scrupulously the prescriptions of medical men; all pharmaceutical establishments were placed under the surveillance of the college of medicine.

He defined them as possessing radial instead of bilateral symmetry, and as apparently destitute of nervous system and sense organs, as having the circulatory system rudimentary or absent, and the respiratory organs on or coextensive with the surface of the body; he included under this title and definition five classes, - Echinodermata, Acalepha, Entozoa, Polypi and Infusoria.

The Spermatophyta fall into two classes, Gymncsperms (q.v.) and Angiosperms; the former are the more primitive group, appearing earlier in geological time and showing more resemblance in the course of their life-history to the Pteridophyta.

We find them to consist of representatives of the great classes of foodstuffs on which animal protoplasm is nourished, and whose presence renders seeds such valuable material for animal consumptien.

Nodules due to eel-worms (Nematodes) are produced on numerous classes of plants, and frequently result in great losses-e.g.

Ecological Classes.Many attempts have been made to divide plants and plant communities into classes depending on habitat factors.

Schimper used the term xerophytes to include plants which live in soils which are physiologically dry, and the term hygrophytes those which live in soils which are physiologically wet or damp. Schimper recognized that the two classes are connected by transitional forms, and that it is useless to attempt to give the matter a statistical basis.

It is only in a general sense like Schimpers that such ecological terms as xerophytes have any value; and it is not possible, at least at present, to frame ecological classes, which shall have a high scientific value, on a basis of this nature.

Remains of extinct birds are, compared with those of other classes of vertebrates, exceedingly scarce, and these have been found in very few, widely separated countries.

The great problems involved in the study of geographical distribution must therefore be based mainly upon the other classes, both vertebrate and invertebrate, which, moreover, enjoy less great facilities of locomotion than the birds.

Above all it should be borne in mind that nearly all the last subdivisions or provinces are of very little real value and most of them are inapplicable to other classes of animals.

Sclater, and as regards the distribution of most classes of animals there have been few to doubt that it is an extremely natural one.