What's the difference between clasp and class?

Clasp


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
  • (v. t.) To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
  • (v. t.) To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
  • (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
  • (n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
  • (2) The RPI clasp assembly generated the most uniform stresses.
  • (3) The author uses his experience as a certified dental technician to discuss arch and tooth preparation, clasping, and proper impression technique.
  • (4) Tightening of clasps already in contact with a tooth frequently produces adverse changes.
  • (5) Fabrication of a provisional restoration to fit the existing clasp assembly requires special consideration.
  • (6) Differences between frameworks, number of clasps, and depth of undercuts were all significant.
  • (7) It was concluded that the gingivally approaching clasp is potentially damaging.
  • (8) He was pictured standing silently with his hands clasped and holding his order of service as others around him sang God Save the Queen, and was later forced to confirm that he would sing the anthem at future events.
  • (9) The abutment tooth is then prepared, providing adequate clearance between the clasp assembly and the tooth preparation.
  • (10) The following therapeutic proposal was adapted: On the maxilla, a three-step procedure: first step: building of metal copings on 13, 16 and 26 and metal-ceramic crowns on 11 and 21, second step: building of telescop crowns on 16 and 26 and clasps on 13, 11 and 21, third step: casting of the removable partial denture framework and soldering to the telescop crowns and clasps.
  • (11) A certain degree of deterioration of occlusion, articulation, stability and clasp retention of the dentures fitted did occur, however.
  • (12) In a 16-year-old girl, congenital extensor deficiency of the hand with absence of true clasping of the thumb was transmitted by an autosomal dominant mechanism of inheritance.
  • (13) Loads applied to the denture saddle were transmitted through the occlusal rest and also the clasp components causing movement of both denture saddle and the abutment tooth.
  • (14) The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in the material and the variation among individual technicians in the retentive force of both clasps.
  • (15) In the case of soldering electrically wrought wire clasps to metal structures such as rests and connectors, there is no fear of of overheating a wide area of wires.
  • (16) The patient tries to smile, but her fingers are clasped together while her nails claw at the flesh on the back of her hands, and the tears continue to pour down.
  • (17) Blindfolded subjects clasped the opposite surfaces of an object with the same frontal profile as the visual figure between thumb and forefinger and moved the latter together from end to end across the object.
  • (18) They really ought to have done more, bearing in mind Pantilimon had needed three attempts to clasp a low cross from Chelsea's first attack of any real threat, 21 minutes into the game.
  • (19) After testimony finished for the day he stood for the jury’s exit, his hands clasped, staring down at the desk in front of him.
  • (20) clasps give only small vibration when the path of removal is adjusted.

Class


Definition:

  • (n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
  • (n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
  • (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
  • (n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
  • (n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
  • (v. i.) To grouped or classed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
  • (2) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (3) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
  • (4) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (5) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (6) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
  • (7) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
  • (8) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
  • (9) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
  • (10) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (11) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
  • (12) Antibiotics and anticonvulsants were the two most commonly used drug classes.
  • (13) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
  • (14) the class- and specificity-restricted antigen-sensitive units.
  • (15) A NYHA-class greater than II was observed in 18% of patients with type-I hypertrophy, in 29% with type II, but in 61% with type III (p less than or equal to 0.05).
  • (16) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
  • (17) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (18) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (19) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
  • (20) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.