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/klɑːs/
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/klæs/
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/klas/
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/klæs/
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/kleəs/
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/klɑ(ː)s/
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klɑːs
Noun
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
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The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
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Often used to imply membership of a large class.
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
So I ask you to accept my statement that my critics fall into two classes: on the one hand my immediate accusers, and on the other those earlier ones whom I have mentioned; […]
The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
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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Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
The division of society into classes.
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Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
Admirable behavior; elegance.
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Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
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.
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.
A single lesson in a series.
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Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
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.
Thirty years ago there were only a few high schools for boys, and in 1957 the first university class consisted of only 50 young men.
a grade, standard, level of education.
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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.
The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only one class.
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.
Best of its kind.
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It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be the class of the field in this event.
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University of Southern California's 7 to 0 defeat of the mighty Cardinal team ranked the victors the class of the far west
Roosevelt (14-1) looked very much like the class of the OIA.
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, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
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The class of all sets is not a set.
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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In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets.[…]The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.
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 in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
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an abstract base class
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
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Verb
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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She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
To be grouped or classed.
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the genus or family under which it classes
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
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Adjective
great; fabulous
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- not-comparable
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To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.
Noun
a collection of things sharing a common attribute
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there are two classes of detergents
a body of students who are taught together
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early morning classes are always sleepy
people having the same social, economic, or educational status
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the working class
an emerging professional class
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
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he took a course in basket weaving
flirting is not unknown in college classes
a league ranked by quality
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he played baseball in class D for two years
Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
a body of students who graduate together
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the class of '97
she was in my year at Hoehandle High
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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elegance in dress or behavior
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she has a lot of class
Verb
arrange or order by classes or categories
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How would you classify these pottery shards — are they prehistoric?