Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
classis and of class.
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- noun Plural form of
class . - noun Plural form of
classis . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
class .
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Examples
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The process of building up a truly democratic society has two parts: first, the organization and union in a single movement of all classes that stand for the abolition of classes, and class rule; and second, the overthrow of those social elements that stand in the way of this natural evolution, their destruction and dissolution _as classes_, and the absorption of their members by the new society as individuals.
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling
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• Custom EventArgs classes• Event logger and collection classes
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In cases of necessity, as where a combination is presented for which no class has been definitely provided, but classes exist into which the several parts would fall if separately claimed, the same practice that obtains in similar situations with respect to two or more _subclasses_ of a class may be followed with respect to two or more _classes_ and the patent placed in that class which, in accordance with above-stated principles, should be deemed the "superior."
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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Test scores and getting high scores in classes is precisely what people in communist/socialist countries are drilled to do.
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The Pahiatua full-time equestrian kept her composure amidst stiff competition to win both of her title classes, with expressive tests from Waikiwi.
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She enjoys passing on her knowledge - much of it autodidactic - to her pupils, but insists the most enjoyable aspect of her classes is the wisdom that she soaks up from the students themselves.
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She enjoys passing on her knowledge - much of it autodidactic - to her pupils, but insists the most enjoyable aspect of her classes is the wisdom that she soaks up from the students themselves.
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The disparity between the classes is the largest it has ever been because the flow of wealth is not down, but up.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Oprah Tackles Minimum Wage Crisis 2006
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Forty-seven percent are enrolled in classes, which is one of the highest rates in the federal system.
A Model Prison 1995
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CLU programming language, a language created in the mid-70s, that we would find crufty and ugly nowadays, but that with its strong emphasis in abstraction, the use of clusters (basically equivalent to what we call classes today) and iterators, was to become the rock foundation of Object Oriented Programming.
Planet Debian 2009
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