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. |
Classes
(pl. ) of Classis |
Elementary
(a.) Having only one principle or constituent part |
Elementary
(a.) Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything |
Elementary
(a.) Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire. |
First-class
(a.) Of the best class |
Primary
(a.) First in order of time or development or in intention |
Primary
(a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher |
Primary
(a.) First in dignity or importance |
Primary
(a.) Earliest formed |
Primary
(a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree |
Primary
(n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance |
Primary
(n.) A primary meeting |
Primary
(n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird. |
Primary
(n.) A primary planet |
School
(n.) A shoal |
School
(n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction |
School
(n.) A place of primary instruction |
School
(n.) A session of an institution of instruction. |
School
(n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. |
School
(n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. |
School
(n.) An assemblage of scholars |
School
(n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher |
School
(n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age |
School
(n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline |
School
(v. t.) To train in an institution of learning |
School
(v. t.) To tutor |
School-teacher
(n.) One who teaches or instructs a school. |
Second-class
(a.) Of the rank or degree below the best highest |
primary
primary election | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
| direct primary | a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office |
| closed primary | a primary in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote, closed primaries strengthen party unity |
| open primary | a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
| primary care | the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere) |
school assignment
schoolwork | a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher |
| primary censorship | armed forces censorship performed by personnel of a military unit on the personal communications of persons assigned to that unit |
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 |
| elementary education | education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school |
shop class
shop | a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity), I built a birdhouse in shop |
class struggle
class war
class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
| primary health care | health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system |
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 |
Diplopoda
class Diplopoda
Myriapoda
class Myriapoda | arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes |
Merostomata
class Merostomata | used in some classifications, includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida |
Mammalia
class Mammalia | warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female |