Rule vs Class - What's the difference?
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A regulation, law, guideline.
* Tillotson
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, title= A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
* South
A straight line , especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
A regulating principle.
* c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well , Act I, scene I:
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
* Bible, Hebrews xiii. 17
* Alexander Pope
A normal condition or state of affairs.
(obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
* Shakespeare
(legal) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
(math) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
(printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
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, title= (slang) To excel.
To mark (paper or the like) with (lines).
To decide judicially.
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, title= To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
* Atterbury
(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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, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, 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.
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, 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
As verbs the difference between rule and class
is that rule is while class is to assign to a class; to classify.As a noun class is
(countable) a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.As an adjective class is
(irish|british|slang) great; fabulous.rule
English
Noun
(en noun)- We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- A judicious artist will use his eye, but he will trust only to his rule .
- There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.
- Obey them that have the rule over you.
- His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.
- My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
- This uncivil rule ; she shall know of it.
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- a rule for extracting the cube root
Derived terms
* exception that proves the rule * golden rule * rule of action * rule of law * rule of thumb * silver rule * slide rule * there is an exception to every ruleVerb
(rul)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
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US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
- That's a ruled case with the schoolmen.
Synonyms
* (to excel) rock (also slang)Antonyms
* (to excel) suck (vulgar slang)Derived terms
* Rule Britannia * rule on * rule out * rule the roost * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldExternal links
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* 1000 English basic words ----class
English
(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.}}
- — Tatham.