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CLASS
course, course of study, course of instruction, class
(noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; “he took a course in basket weaving”; “flirting is not unknown in college classes”
class
(noun) elegance in dress or behavior; “she has a lot of class”
class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
(noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status; “the working class”; “an emerging professional class”
class, category, family
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute; “there are two classes of detergents”
class
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
class, form, grade, course
(noun) a body of students who are taught together; “early morning classes are always sleepy”
class, year
(noun) a body of students who graduate together; “the class of ’97”; “she was in my year at Hoehandle High”
class, division
(noun) a league ranked by quality; “he played baseball in class D for two years”; “Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA”
classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
(verb) arrange or order by classes or categories; “How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
(sociology, countable) 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.
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
(education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
(taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Best of its kind.
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
(object-oriented, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Synonyms
• See also class
Hyponyms
• business class
• character class
• economy class
• equivalence class
• first class
• form class
• middle class
• noun class
• pitch class
• professional class
• school class
• second class
• social class
• spectral class
• superclass
• third class
• upper class
• working class
(programming, object-oriented: A set of objects having the same behavior or a template defining such a set):
• abstract class
• anonymous class
• base class
• child class
• class diagram
• convenience class
• factory class
• final class
• inner class
• local class
• metaclass
• nested class
• outer class
• parent class
• partial class
• static class
• subclass
• superclass
• wrapper class
• (lesson on a single subject): preceptorial, lecture, seminar
Verb
class (third-person singular simple present classes, present participle classing, simple past and past participle classed)
(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Adjective
class (not comparable)
(Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous
Proper noun
CLASS (plural er-noun)
(astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.
(astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.
Source: Wiktionary
Class, n. Etym: [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. 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, gemera, etc.
4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.
5. (Methodist Church)
Definition: 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.
Class, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed; p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] Etym: [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.
Class, v. i.
Definition: To grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes. Tatham.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CONSECRATION
(noun) (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God; “the Cardinal attended the consecration of the church”
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