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Class - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Class : (noun)
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
(verb)
1: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you
classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
[syn: classify, sort, assort, sort out, separate]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Class : \Class\, v. i.
To grouped or classed.
The genus or famiky under which it classes. --Tatham.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same
standing, or pursuing the same studies.
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.
4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
She had lost one class energies. --Macaulay.
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.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Class : \Class\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed; 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.
Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead
of to class. --Dana.
2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or
place in, a class or classes.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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, aClass : 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.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Class : Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Class : Custom Local Area Signaling Service
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Class |
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