(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.
Dynamite
Definition:
(n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(2) Other commentators have been harsher yet: writing in the New Republic , Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig has argued that Fincher and Sorkin have missed the significance of Zuckerberg's achievement entirely: "This is like a film about the atomic bomb which never even introduces the idea that an explosion produced through atomic fission is importantly different from an explosion produced by dynamite."
(3) This study examines the mortality experience of a cohort of male workers from a small Swedish dynamite industry.
(4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
(5) Cause-, sex-, age-, and calendar-year-specific national incidence rates were used to calculate the expected number of deaths in a group of individuals with exposure to the dynamite manufacturing process and in an unexposed group from the same industry.
(6) During the period 1965-77, nine deaths from cardiocerebrovascular diseases were observed, versus 4.5 expected (p less than 0.05), among men with at least one year of exposure to dynamite and 20 years of induction-latency time.
(7) Today, Ms Dynamite seems to have left all that anger behind.
(8) A 60-year-old man had under gone a left below-knee amputation 30 years ago owing to trauma and burn suffered in a dynamite explosion.
(9) Fishing for chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and rainbow trout is legendary on the Rogue and a number of dams have been dynamited in recent years to restore fish migration pathways.
(10) But Lanzhou’s poor air quality is caused less by burning coal and car fumes than by the local penchant for blowing up mountains with dynamite.
(11) It would appear that what we've heard of Ms Dynamite's second coming thus far does not fully represent what's yet to come.
(12) Yet in the peace-giving west, the award remains significantly venerated – a testament, surely, to being a dynamite idea in principle (if you'll forgive the cliched reference to Alfred Nobel's other gift to the world ) but a mostly damp squib in practice.
(13) Other high-profile figures at the rally were musicians Damon Albarn and Ms Dynamite, model Kate Moss, peace campaigner Bianca Jagger, politician Mo Mowlam and playwright Harold Pinter.
(14) Rescuers dynamited boulders that had fallen across roads to reach Longmen and other areas further up the mountain valleys, state media reported.
(15) These include the Conjay Firearms CBX bullet "with explosive cavitation effects"; the blow-out-nosed Dynamit Nobel Action 1 bullet which has been adopted by several European special forces and the PMC Ultramag.
(16) Lansley did not set out to dynamite the NHS structure; at around the time of the 2010 election his reform programme seemed more of an “evolutionary process” .
(17) Now, at long last, Ms Dynamite is back to doing what she does best.
(18) The Ballarat-trained gelding started as a rank outsider yet made light of the 100-1 odds with a late move down the home straight, holding off the fast-finishing Max Dynamite, ridden by Frankie Dettori, by three-quarters of a length to secure victory.
(19) Human Cannonball's wife, on the other hand, is all for the death plan, appealing to the Dragons for money for more dynamite and a more powerful cannon.
(20) This electoral dynamite shows not just the poor, but middling children doing worse than their parents: few good jobs, no homes and heavy debt.