Class vs. Division
Difference Between Class and Division
Classnoun
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.Often used to imply membership of a large class.This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.Divisionnoun
(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
Classnoun
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.
Divisionnoun
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
Classnoun
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.Divisionnoun
The process of dividing a number by another.
Classnoun
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.Divisionnoun
(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.Classnoun
A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.Divisionnoun
(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
Classnoun
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.Divisionnoun
A section of a large company.
Classnoun
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.Divisionnoun
(taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.Classnoun
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.Divisionnoun
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
Classnoun
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.Divisionnoun
(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.Classnoun
Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.Divisionnoun
(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
Classnoun
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
Divisionnoun
(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
Classnoun
(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
The class of all sets is not a set.Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.Divisionnoun
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
Classnoun
(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.
Divisionnoun
(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
Classnoun
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
an abstract base classDivisionnoun
A lesson; a class.
Classnoun
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Divisionnoun
an army unit large enough to sustain combat;
two infantry divisions were held in reserveClassverb
(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.Divisionnoun
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;
the written part of the examthe finance section of the companythe BBC's engineering divisionClassverb
(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
Divisionnoun
the act or process of dividing
Classverb
(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Divisionnoun
an administrative unit in government or business
Classadjective
great; fabulous
Divisionnoun
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
Classnoun
people having the same social or economic status;
the working classan emerging professional classDivisionnoun
discord that splits a group
Classnoun
a body of students who are taught together;
early morning classes are always sleepyDivisionnoun
a league ranked by quality;
he played baseball in class D for two yearsPrinceton is in the NCAA Division 1-AAClassnoun
education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
he took a course in basket weavingflirting is not unknown in college classesDivisionnoun
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
Classnoun
a collection of things sharing a common attribute;
there are two classes of detergentsDivisionnoun
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
Classnoun
a body of students who graduate together;
the class of '97she was in my year at Hoehandle HighDivisionnoun
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
Classnoun
a league ranked by quality;
he played baseball in class D for two yearsPrinceton is in the NCAA Division 1-AADivisionnoun
a group of ships of similar type
Classnoun
elegance in dress or behavior;
she has a lot of classDivisionnoun
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
Classnoun
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Classverb
arrange or order by classes or categories;
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
