What's the difference between class and lass?

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.

Lass


Definition:

  • (n.) A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An enrichment procedure involving percolation through octadecylsilica cartridges was applied to the extraction of linear alkylbenzenesulphonates (LASs), alkylphenol polyethoxylates (APEOs) and nonylphenol (NP) from treated and untreated municipal waste waters.
  • (2) Labile aggregation stimulating substance (LASS) composed of two closely linked intermediates of prostaglandin (PG) E2 and PGF2alpha biosynthesis, produced using a microsomal fraction of HP platelets, could correct the aggregation and secretion defect of AT platelets exposed to collagen.
  • (3) I’ll know that the high walls of inequality are tumbling down when a lass from Lincoln’s Ermine estate with a degree from Lincoln University and years of frontline policing experience, including running a police force, gets to run the Met.
  • (4) Lasse Gustavson, head of WWF's delegation, said: "While we think some of the new text is a good base for the future, such as the language on oceans, we see a lopsided victory of weak words over action words ,with the weak words winning out at 514 to 10."
  • (5) The visitors’ head coach, Dean Smith, complained about a congested fixture schedule which had left his depleted squad without payers such as Lasse Vibe and Alan Judge through injury.
  • (6) Chris Townley, a former landlord of a property managed by Foxtons, became the first claimant in a c lass action against the estate agent .
  • (7) The Labour party hopes to change this next year: if all goes according to plan, local lass Lee Sherriff will usurp John Stevenson, the Tory who – to his own obvious surprise – managed to interrupt 45 years of unbroken red rule in Carlisle by getting elected in 2010.
  • (8) "Rape only happens because lasses can't handle the banter," said Adam.
  • (9) Unfortunately for Karanka, Lasse Vibe’s equaliser at the outset of the second half proved absolutely legitimate.
  • (10) Ian’s father, John, said: “Kelly was a lovely lass.
  • (11) We also confirm the observation of I. Lassing and U. Lindberg (1985.
  • (12) It’s not our job to solve the wider problem and it is not our role to take a political stance.’ “One of the problems with the north is that it does think like this and I resigned because I did not want to be associated with this stance.” Women plan 'Lass War' protest at northern powerhouse conference Read more Meanwhile, Donna Hall, chief executive of Wigan council, said the apology was only issued after mounting pressure.
  • (13) Irreversible second-phase aggregation of platelets in diabetic patients is prevented in vitro by 5, 8, 11, 14-eicosatetraynoic acid (TYA), a competitive inhibitor of the labile aggregation-stimulating substance (LASS) which is formed from arachidonic acid.
  • (14) In fusions of protoplasts of a strain with the las+ ech+ spo+ nic-1 rif-3 markers with strains bearing the Las- LasS Ech- Bld- (or spo+) str-1 markers, Las+ Ech+ Spo+ StrR progeny were produced at a 61-89% frequency compared with a 1-9% frequency of StrR antibiotic producing progeny with the nic-1 or rif-3 genotypes.
  • (15) Mean blood lactates (n = 8) reached a steady-state (8.9 mmol.l-1 SD 1.6) during the last 20 min of exercise indicating that CP slightly overestimated lass,max, Individual blood lactates during the last 20 min of exercise were more closely related to the gamma-intercept of the CP curve (r = 0.78, P less than 0.05) than either CP (0.34, NS) or mean power output (r = 0.42, NS).
  • (16) A weak non-polar reversed-phase column was useful for the determination of LASs.
  • (17) Oil companies are standing on the doorstep of one of the world's most precious and fragile places, but we will not rest until Virunga is safe from this potential environmental disaster," said Lasse Gustavsson, executive director of WWF International.
  • (18) These results together with previous findings (Lassing, I., and Lindberg, U.
  • (19) On her website she describes herself as “an upfront, direct, and strong Yorkshire lass who passionately stands up for what she believes in”.
  • (20) The platelet response to labile aggregation stimulating substance (LASS, mostly thromboxane A2) was normal.