Class vs Saw - What's the difference?
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(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
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, title= (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
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, title= (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
(countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
A series of classes covering a single subject.
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
(biology, taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Best of its kind.
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(mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
(programming, object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader .
To assign to a class; to classify.
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, chapter=2 To be grouped or classed.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
(Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous
A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
A musical saw.
A sawtooth wave.
To cut (something) with a saw.
To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
To be cut with a saw.
To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
(label) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
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*:And for thy trew sawys , and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid.
(often old saw ) A saying or proverb.
(label) Opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.
*Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden
*:Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
(label) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
*Earl of Toulouse
*:All they assentyd to the sawe ; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
(label) Dictate; command; decree.
*Spenser
*:[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw .
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As a noun class
is (countable) a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.As a verb class
is to assign to a class; to classify.As an adjective class
is (irish|british|slang) great; fabulous.class
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(wikipedia class)Noun
Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle, passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* business class * character class * class action * class clown * class diagram * class reunion * class struggle * economy class * equivalence class * first class * form class * middle class * noun class * pitch class * professional class * school class * second class * social class * spectral class * super class * third class * touch of class * upper class * working class * abstract class * anonymous/local class * base class * class diagram * convenience class * factory class * final class * inner class * outer class * static class * subclass * wrapper classVerb
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
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Derived terms
(Derived terms) * outclass * subclassAdjective
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English
(wikipedia saw)Etymology 1
From (etyl) sawe, from (etyl) saga, .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* backsaw * band saw, bandsaw * buzz saw * chainsaw * chop saw * circular saw * coping saw * crosscut saw * fretsaw * hacksaw * handsaw * hole saw * Japanese-style handsaw * jigsaw * miter saw, mitre saw * power saw * razor-tooth saw * reciprocating saw * rift saw * rip saw * sawbones * sawhorse * sawtooth * scroll saw * table saw * tenon sawVerb
- The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
- The timber saws smoothly.
- to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
- to saw''' shingles; to '''saw out a panel