class

nom

1. 1

   A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

   The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.

   That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.

   Often used to imply membership of a large class.

   This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   The division of society into classes.

   Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.

4. 4

   Admirable behavior; elegance.

   Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.

5. 5

   A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

   The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.

6. 6

   A series of lessons covering a single subject.

   I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.

7. 7

   A single lesson in a series.

   Tomorrow's class will cover long division.

8. 8

   A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

   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.

9. 9

   a grade, standard, level of education.

10. 10

    A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

    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.

11. 11

    A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

    Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.

12. 12

    Best of its kind.

    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.

    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.

13. 13

    A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

14. 14

    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).

    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.

15. 15

    A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

16. 16

    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.

    an abstract base class

17. 17

    One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

verbe

1. 1

   To assign to a class; to classify.

   I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.

   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.

2. 2

   To be grouped or classed.

   the genus or family under which it classes

3. 3

   To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

adjectif

1. 1

   argotgreat; fabulous

   To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.

Formes

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classed

participe passé

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participe présent

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3ᵉ personne du singulier

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