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CLASS, n. 1. An order or rank of persons; a number of persons in society, supposed to have some resemblance or equality, in rank, education, property, talents, and the like; as in the phrase, all classes of men in society.The readers of poetry may be distinguished into three classes, according to their capacity of judging.2. A number of students in a college or school, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. In colleges, the students entering or becoming members the same year, and pursuing the same studies. In academies and schools, the pupils who learn the same lesson, and recite together. In some cases, students of different standings, pursuing the same studies and reciting together, or attending the same professor, or the same course of lectures.3. Scientific division or arrangement; a set of beings or things, having something in common, or ranged under a common denomination. Hence in zoology, animals are divided into classes; as quadrupeds, fowls, fishes, &c. So in botany, plants are arranged in classes. Classes are natural or artificial; natural, when founded on natural relations, or resemblances; artificial, when formed arbitrarily, for want of a complete knowledge of natural relations.CLASS, v.t. 1. To arrange in a class or classes; to arrange in sets, or ranks, according to some method founded on natural distinctions; to place together, or in one division, men or things which have or are supposed to have something in common.2. To place in ranks or divisions students that are pursuing the same studies; to form into a class or classes.
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CLASS, n. 1. An order or rank of persons; a number of persons in society, supposed to have some resemblance or equality, in rank, education, property, talents, and the like; as in the phrase, all classes of men in society.The readers of poetry may be distinguished into three classes, according to their capacity of judging.2. A number of students in a college or school, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. In colleges, the students entering or becoming members the same year, and pursuing the same studies. In academies and schools, the pupils who learn the same lesson, and recite together. In some cases, students of different standings, pursuing the same studies and reciting together, or attending the same professor, or the same course of lectures.3. Scientific division or arrangement; a set of beings or things, having something in common, or ranged under a common denomination. Hence in zoology, animals are divided into classes; as quadrupeds, fowls, fishes, &c. So in botany, plants are arranged in classes. Classes are natural or artificial; natural, when founded on natural relations, or resemblances; artificial, when formed arbitrarily, for want of a complete knowledge of natural relations.CLASS, v.t. 1. To arrange in a class or classes; to arrange in sets, or ranks, according to some method founded on natural distinctions; to place together, or in one division, men or things which have or are supposed to have something in common.2. To place in ranks or divisions students that are pursuing the same studies; to form into a class or classes. | CLASS, n. [L. classis, a class, a fleet, a troop, that is, a collection; It. classe; Fr. classe; Sp. clase; Arm. claçz, and sclaçz; Dan. klasse, a class, and klase, a cluster, a bunch. This seems to be a branch of the root of L. claudo, clausus.]- An order or rank of persons; a number of persons in society, supposed to have some resemblance or equality, in rank, education, property, talents, and the like; as in the phrase, all classes of men in society.
The readers of poetry may be distinguished into three classes, according to their capacity of judging. – Dryden.
- A number of students in a college or school, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. In colleges, the students entering or becoming members the same year, and pursuing the same studies. In academies and schools, the pupils who learn the same lesson, and recite together. In some cases, students of different standings, pursuing the same studies and reciting together, or attending the same professor, or the same course of lectures.
- Scientific division or arrangement; a set of beings or things, having something in common, or ranged under a common denomination. Hence in zoology, animals are divided into classes; as, quadrupeds, fowls, fishes, &c. So in botany, plants are arranged in classes. Classes are natural or artificial; natural, when founded on natural relations, or resemblances; artificial, when formed arbitrarily, for want of a complete knowledge of natural relations. – Martyn.
CLASS, v.t.- To arrange in a class or classes; to arrange in sets, or ranks, according to some method founded on natural distinctions; to place together, or in one division, men or things which have or are supposed to have something in common.
- To place in ranks or divisions, students that are pursuing the same studies; to form into a class or classes.
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- A
group of individuals ranked together as possessing common
characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the
educated class; the lower classes.
- To
arrange in classes] to classify or refer to some class; as, to
class words or passages.
- To grouped or
classed.
- A number of students in a school or
college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same
studies.
- To divide into classes, as students;
to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
- 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.
- A set; a kind or description, species
or variety.
- One of the
sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and
which is under the supervision of a class
leader.
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Class CLASS, noun 1. An order or rank of persons; a number of persons in society, supposed to have some resemblance or equality, in rank, education, property, talents, and the like; as in the phrase, all classes of men in society. The readers of poetry may be distinguished into three classes, according to their capacity of judging. 2. A number of students in a college or school, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. In colleges, the students entering or becoming members the same year, and pursuing the same studies. In academies and schools, the pupils who learn the same lesson, and recite together. In some cases, students of different standings, pursuing the same studies and reciting together, or attending the same professor, or the same course of lectures. 3. Scientific division or arrangement; a set of beings or things, having something in common, or ranged under a common denomination. Hence in zoology, animals are divided into classes; as quadrupeds, fowls, fishes, etc. So in botany, plants are arranged in classes. Classes are natural or artificial; natural, when founded on natural relations, or resemblances; artificial, when formed arbitrarily, for want of a complete knowledge of natural relations. CLASS, verb transitive 1. To arrange in a class or classes; to arrange in sets, or ranks, according to some method founded on natural distinctions; to place together, or in one division, men or things which have or are supposed to have something in common. 2. To place in ranks or divisions students that are pursuing the same studies; to form into a class or classes.
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