Class vs. Lesson
Difference Between Class and Lesson
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.Lessonnoun
A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.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.
Lessonnoun
A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
Classnoun
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.Lessonnoun
Something learned or to be learned.
Nature has many lessons to teach to us.Classnoun
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.Lessonnoun
Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
I hope this accident taught you a lesson!The accident was a good lesson to me.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.Lessonnoun
A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
Here endeth the first lesson.Classnoun
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.Lessonnoun
A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
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.Lessonnoun
(music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
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.Lessonverb
To give a lesson to; to teach.
Classnoun
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.Lessonnoun
a unit of instruction;
he took driving lessonsClassnoun
Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.Lessonnoun
punishment intended as a warning to others;
they decided to make an example of himClassnoun
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
Lessonnoun
the significance of a story or event;
the moral of the story is to love thy neighborClassnoun
(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.Lessonnoun
a task assigned for individual study;
he did the lesson for todayClassnoun
(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.
Classnoun
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
an abstract base classClassnoun
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Classverb
(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.Classverb
(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
Classverb
(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Classadjective
great; fabulous
Classnoun
people having the same social or economic status;
the working classan emerging professional classClassnoun
a body of students who are taught together;
early morning classes are always sleepyClassnoun
education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
he took a course in basket weavingflirting is not unknown in college classesClassnoun
a collection of things sharing a common attribute;
there are two classes of detergentsClassnoun
a body of students who graduate together;
the class of '97she was in my year at Hoehandle HighClassnoun
a league ranked by quality;
he played baseball in class D for two yearsPrinceton is in the NCAA Division 1-AAClassnoun
elegance in dress or behavior;
she has a lot of classClassnoun
(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?
