What's the difference between class and crass?

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.

Crass


Definition:

  • (a.) Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So perhaps, at some distant point in the future, the Nobel committee will find a crass way to play politics at the same time as giving a retroactive nod to Malala – unless she has become president of Pakistan: in which case she'll finally be in the sort of day job that tends to catch their eye.
  • (2) In their crass off-pitch antics as well as their humiliating ineptitude, Les Bleus have reminded us of an important truth.
  • (3) What’s troubling isn’t the premise that a straight man might be stricken by rape-anxiety before going to jail, but the crass and bludgeoning way it’s handled,” he said.
  • (4) Hofer himself described Farage’s comments as a “crass misjudgment”, adding that “it doesn’t fill me with joy when someone meddles from outside”.
  • (5) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
  • (6) He joined the counter-attack launched in the Observer by Tristram Hunt , historian and shadow education spokesman, who accused Gove of a crass attempt to "rewrite the historical record and sow political division".
  • (7) The supreme irony is that when Klimt painted his so-called golden portrait of Adele, his style had hardened into a crass ersatz modernism, so the price it fetched for Altmann makes it the most expensive postcard in the world.
  • (8) In more benign times the Blair-Brown regime bowed to a crass, illusory idea of the centre-ground: now, with the coalition pushing politics even further to the right, too many Labour politicians seem to be acquiescing in the other side's world-view.
  • (9) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
  • (10) Nor should we take very seriously the criticism from Labour MP Tom Watson: "This is a crass example of rich Tories buying privilege ...
  • (11) It’s difficult to describe how crass and inappropriate those messages were.
  • (12) The London mayor made a crass, sexist joke this week about Malaysian girls going off to university to find husbands.
  • (13) As long as you’re not crass enough to dig out your basement and turn it into a swimming pool.
  • (14) Scott Walker seems to be making crass and insulting remarks on a daily basis about abortion,” Richards said in a statement.
  • (15) The scandal becomes not that racism exists but that anyone would be crass enough to articulate it so brazenly.
  • (16) Saunders has sailed close to crass indiscretion more than once.
  • (17) It would really be a bit crass if we start talking about who was to replace them."
  • (18) The Conservatives quote Mervyn King gleefully in every speech, along with the German finance minister's attack on "crass Keynesianism" - though days later they began higher spending than the UK.
  • (19) I think we’re seeing crass opportunism from those people who support changes to the law.” The government in August backed down on plans to remove the clauses of the RDA which make it unlawful to offend, insult or humiliate people on the basis of race, following outcry from community groups.
  • (20) The Labour MP asked John Bercow, the Speaker: "Could I ask whether you have had a request from any minister of Her Majesty's government to attend this house and give clarification to the rather crass and insensitive statements of the enterprise adviser to the government that we've 'never had it so good'.