Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. 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, genera, etc.
4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
She had lost one class energies. --Macaulay.
5. (Methodist Church) 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 \Class\ (kl[.a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Classed} (kl[.a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Classing}.] [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 \Class\, v. i. To be grouped or classed.
The genus or family under which it classes. --Tatham.
Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), a. exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of {low-class} [informal]
Syn: high-class. [PJC]
In the 1950s, the Cuban political class was wont to say, "Without sugar, there is no country."
The case was expanded to a class action covering 268 people arrested during the past three years.
The class system, that mysterious code the British like to believe is uniquely their own, has suffered a double blow in recent days.
National Gay Rights Advocates, a California public interest law firm, has filed a class action suit on behalf of AIDS patients against the Department of Health and Human Services, FDA and National Institutes of Health.
Earlier this month, three Bonneville investors filed a suit seeking class action status, charging Portland General with various federal securities law violations that the investors say led to Bonneville's financial collapse.
"It's a landmark decision because discrimination against Hispanics in this society is pervasive," said Antonio Silva, co-counsel for the agents in the class action suit.
Except for two World War II Japanese battleships and the current Navy aircraft carriers, the 58,000-ton ships of the Iowa class are the largest warships in the world.
He was so unhappy in what he called the "dummy class" in Denver City, Texas, that she took him out two weeks early last spring.
It is "effectively a tax break for the wealthy to be paid for by the middle class.
It is closely autobiographical: educated son of a miner, but whose mother is much more middle class.
He wrote that class barriers were crumbling, and pointed to studies showing that by the year 2000, 70 percent of all job will require brains, not brawn, compared with only 30 percent in 1945.
But Howell said about 80 percent of teachers indicated they would not be in class Wednesday.
Kuwait faces a general election next week which pits the ruling Al-Sabah family against its merchant class critics.
Ashley Deloach didn't hesitate when the teacher asked her class to draw what they wanted for Christmas.
Our liberal friends have been at war with America's middle class for years.
To put a child in such a situation "may be sentencing those children to death." Hanlon said Eliana's doctors found no evidence of blood in the mouth, but Eliana would be kept out of class if that occurred.
The east side is predominately white, middle to upper class, the home of Sarah Lawrence College; it borders the wealthy towns of Scarsdale and Bronxville.
No class or group of workers is escaping the effects of structural change.
In some constituencies they could work well together, for example in the working class areas of Kowloon.
If the governing class doesn't make partisan distinctions, neither will the revolutionaries.
Nearly all of Hayes' 579 classmates went to Vietnam; 30 died there, more than any other class, said Wheeler.
The arrangement has been good for Mexican social stability, but it has also created a entire class of labor middlemen who confront management in the name of the rank-and-file, then take kickbacks in return for dropping their demands.
Yet art continues to be directed from above by a class of cultural commissars, including the most successful artists themselves.
If after hearing arguments in the fall, the high court upholds the verdicts, the companies and the bank's directors may face an additional $13 million in liability under federal law from the class action.
In a suit filed last month, the Sugarman companies asked that all holders vote on the takeover offer as a single class.
He cut spending and raised some taxes, but he did not raise income taxes on the middle class.
Mr Pierre Pissaloux, the EBRD's budget director, said the ban on business class flights was made five weeks ago.
At the start of a recent month-long program, for example, a class of 40 middle managers divide into groups to solve a hurricane-survival exercise developed by a Yale professor.
Those on the left who have been writing lately about the "vanishing middle class" must be similarly disdainful of the facts.
There are indications that portions of the Chinese working class, once solidly behind the PAP, feel they have missed out on Singapore's economic miracle.