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 |