class /ˈklæs/
 C種類,等級;U階級;C班,班級,年級;C課(vt.)把…分類
 class /ˈklæs/ 名詞
 級,組,綱,分級,分類
 class
 類別; 分類 CLS
 class
 類 類別 級
 Class n.
 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 v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.]
 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.
 2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
 Class, v. i. To be grouped or classed.
    The genus or family under which it classes.   --Tatham.
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 class
      n 1: people having the same social or economic status; "the
           working class"; "an emerging professional class" [syn: social
           class, socio-economic class]
      2: a body of students who are taught together; "early morning
         classes are always sleepy" [syn: form, grade]
      3: education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
         "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not
         unknown in college classes" [syn: course, course of
         study, course of instruction]
      4: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there
         are two classes of detergents" [syn: category, family]
      5: a body of students who graduate together; "the class of
         '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: year]
      6: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
         for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
         [syn: division]
      7: elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"
      8: (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
      v : arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you
          classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
          [syn: classify, sort, assort, sort out, separate]