Breast-high (a.) High as the breast. |
Class (n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics |
Class (n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. |
Class (n.) 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. |
Class (n.) A set |
Class (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. |
Class (n.) To arrange in classes |
Class (n.) To divide into classes, as students |
Class (v. i.) To grouped or classed. |
First-class (a.) Of the best class |
High (v. i.) To hie. |
High (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface |
High (superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated |
High (superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual |
High (superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like |
High (superl.) Of noble birth |
High (superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like |
High (superl.) Very abstract |
High (superl.) Costly |
High (superl.) Arrogant |
High (superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree |
High (superl.) Strong-scented |
High (superl.) Acute or sharp |
High (superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11. |
High (adv.) In a high manner |
High (n.) An elevated place |
High (n.) People of rank or high station |
High (n.) The highest card dealt or drawn. |
High (v. i.) To rise |
High-blown (a.) Inflated, as with conceit. |
High-bred (a.) Bred in high life |
High-built (a.) Of lofty structure |
High-church (a.) Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a. |
High-churchism (n.) The principles of the high-church party. |
High-churchman (n.) One who holds high-church principles. |
High-churchman-ship (n.) The state of being a high-churchman. |
High-colored (a.) Having a strong, deep, or glaring color |
High-colored (a.) Vivid |
High-embowed (a.) Having lofty arches. |
High-fed (a.) Pampered |
High-finished (a.) Finished with great care |
High-flown (a.) Elevated |
High-flown (a.) Turgid |
High-flushed (a.) Elated. |
High-go (n.) A spree |
High-handed (a.) Overbearing |
High-hearted (a.) Full of courage or nobleness |
High-hoe (n.) The European green woodpecker or yaffle. |
High-holder (n.) The flicker |
High-low (n.) A laced boot, ankle high. |
high colonic | an enema that injects large amounts of fluid high into the colon for cleansing purposes |
high jump | the act of jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar |
all fours high-low-jack | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game |
high-low | poker in which the high and low hands split the pot |
jinks high jinks hijinks high jinx | noisy and mischievous merrymaking |
extravagance prodigality lavishness highlife high life | excessive spending |
treason high treason lese majesty | a crime that undermines the offender's government |
course course of study course of instruction class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings, he took a course in basket weaving, flirting is not unknown in college classes |
art class | a class in which you learn to draw or paint |
childbirth-preparation class | a course that teaches pregnant women to use breathing and concentration and exercise techniques to use during labor |
life class | an art class using a live human model |
shop class shop | a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity), I built a birdhouse in shop |
high technology high tech | highly advanced technological development (especially in electronics) |
class struggle class war class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
high fidelity hi-fi | the reproduction of sound with little or no distortion |
High Mass | a solemn and elaborate Mass with music |
high finance | large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical) |
class action class-action suit | a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
Schizomycetes class Schizomycetes | a former classification |
class Cyanobacteria Cyanophyceae class Cyanophyceae | photosynthetic bacteria found in fresh and salt water, having chlorophyll a and phycobilins, once thought to be algae: blue-green algae |
Sarcodina class Sarcodina | characterized by the formation of pseudopods for locomotion and taking food: Actinopoda, Rhizopoda |
Ciliata class Ciliata Ciliophora class Ciliophora | class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle |
Chrysophyceae class Chrysophyceae Heterokontae class Heterokontae | all the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length |
Xanthophyceae class Xanthophyceae | yellow-green algae |
Bacillariophyceae class Bacillariophyceae Diatomophyceae class Diatomophyceae | marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms |
Phaeophyceae class Phaeophyceae | brown algae, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
Cyclosporeae class Cyclosporeae | in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales |
Euglenophyceae class Euglenophyceae | coextensive with the division Euglenophyta |
Chlorophyceae class Chlorophyceae | algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments |
Ulvophyceae class Ulvophyceae | alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications |
Charophyceae class Charophyceae | in some classifications: contains only the order Charales |
Rhodophyceae class Rhodophyceae | coextensive with the Rhodophyta: red algae |
Mastigophora class Mastigophora Flagellata class Flagellata | protozoa having flagella |
Cryptophyceae class Cryptophyceae | motile usually brownish-green protozoa-like algae |
Sporozoa class Sporozoa | strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile, includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites |
Ascidiaceae class Ascidiaceae | sometimes classified as an order: sea squirts |
Thaliacea class Thaliacea | small class of free-swimming tunicates, sometimes classified as an order |
Larvacea class Larvacea | small free-swimming tunicates, sometimes classified as an order |
Placodermi class Placodermi | extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws |
Chondrichthyes class Chondrichthyes | cartilaginous fishes |
Aves class Aves | (ornithology) the class of birds |
amphibia class Amphibia | the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, caecilians |
Reptilia class Reptilia | class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates, once the dominant land animals |
Arachnida class Arachnida | a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs, have four pairs of walking legs and no wings |
Pauropoda class Pauropoda | an obscure class of minute arthropods with branched antennae and topairs of legs |
Symphyla class Symphyla | small class of minute arthropods, unimportant except for the garden centipede |
Tardigrada class Tardigrada | in some classifications considered a separate phylum: microscopic arachnid-like invertebrates living in water or damp moss having pairs of legs and instead of a mouth a pair of stylets or needlelike piercing organs connected with the pharynx |
Chilopoda class Chilopoda | arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes |