class
类,类别,阶级,种类
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Definitions
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- : a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- : a group of students meeting regularly to study a subject under the guidance of a teacher: The class had arrived on time for the lecture.
- : the period during which a group of students meets for instruction.
- : a meeting of a group of students for instruction.
- : a classroom.
- : a number of pupils in a school, or of students in a college, pursuing the same studies, ranked together, or graduated in the same year: She graduated from Ohio State, class of '72.
- : a social stratum sharing basic economic, political, or cultural characteristics, and having the same social position: Artisans form a distinct class in some societies.
- : the system of dividing society; caste.
- : social rank, especially high rank.
- : the members of a given group in society, regarded as a single entity.
- : any division of persons or things according to rank or grade: Hotels were listed by class, with the most luxurious ones listed first.
- : excellence; exceptional merit: She's a good performer, but she lacks class.
- : Hinduism. any of the four social divisions, the Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, of Hindu society; varna.Compare caste.
- : Informal. elegance, grace, or dignity, as in dress and behavior: He may be a slob, but his brother has real class.
- : any of several grades of accommodations available on ships, airplanes, and the like: We bought tickets for first class.
- : Informal. the best or among the best of its kind: This new plane is the class of the wide-bodied airliners.
- : Biology. the usual major subdivision of a phylum or division in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of several orders.
- : British University. any of three groups into which candidates for honors degrees are divided according to merit on the basis of final examinations.
- : drafted or conscripted soldiers, or persons available for draft or conscription, all of whom were born in the same year.
- : Grammar. form class.
- : Ecclesiastical. classis.
- : one of several small companies, each composed of about 12 members under a leader, into which each society or congregation was divided.
- : Statistics. a group of measurements that fall within a specified interval.
- : Mathematics. a set; a collection.
- : the classes, the higher ranks of society, as distinguished from the masses.
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- : Informal. of high quality, integrity, status, or style: class players on a mediocre team.
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- : to place or arrange in a class; classify: to class justice with wisdom.
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- : to take or have a place in a particular class: those who class as believers.
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- : class up, Informal. to improve the quality, tone, or status of; add elegance, dignity, style, etc., to: The new carpet and curtains really class up this room.
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Examples
A Senate report published Wednesday claimed that policy delayed 7 percent of the country’s first-class mail in the five weeks after it took effect.
His diction, that booming voice, his intensity, are in a class by themselves.
The researchers found that there was no difference in outcomes between the three kinds of classes.
We could go to classes remotely from our homes or from our dorm rooms.
With only eight students left, leadership at Lincoln High decided to cancel the class after the first quarter, as Scott Lewis reports in a new story on Williams’ ordeal.
I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.
More to the point, Huckabee has a natural appeal to a party that has come to represent the bulk of working class white voters.
Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
Our class has swelled to about a dozen persons now, and a good many others come and play to him once or twice and then go.
It has only been a rare and exceptional class hitherto that has gone on learning throughout life.
But we must not class in this unclean category Lord Spunyarn and his friend Haggard, who were both playing at the big table.
The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.