Class vs. Lesson
Class and Lesson Definitions
Class
A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
Lesson
Something to be learned
Lessons from observing nature.
Class
A grade of mail
A package sent third class.
Lesson
A period of instruction; a class.
Class
A quality of accommodation on public transport
Tourist class.
Lesson
An assignment or exercise in which something is to be learned.
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Class
A social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics
The lower-income classes.
Lesson
The act or an instance of instructing; teaching.
Class
Social rank or caste, especially high rank.
Lesson
An experience, example, or observation that imparts new knowledge or understanding
The conversation was a lesson in tact.
Class
(Informal)Elegance of style, taste, and manner
An actor with class.
Lesson
The knowledge or wisdom so acquired. Missing the opening act taught me a lesson about being late.
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Class
A group of students who are taught together, usually at a regularly scheduled time and in the same subject.
Lesson
Often Lesson A reading from the Bible or other sacred text as part of a religious service.
Class
The period during which such a group meets
Had to stay after class.
Lesson
To teach a lesson to; instruct.
Class
The subject material taught to or studied by such a group
Found the math class challenging.
Lesson
To rebuke or reprimand.
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Class
A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
Lesson
(archaic) To instruct to teach.
Class
(Biology)A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.
Lesson
To give a lesson to; to teach.
Class
(Statistics)An interval in a frequency distribution.
Lesson
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.
Class
(Linguistics)A group of words belonging to the same grammatical category that share a particular set of morphological properties, such as a set of inflections.
Lesson
A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
Class
(Mathematics)A collection of sets whose members share a specified property.
Lesson
Something learned or to be learned.
Nature has many lessons to teach to us.
Class
To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.
Lesson
Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
The accident was a good lesson to me.
Class
(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.
Lesson
A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
Here endeth the first lesson.
Class
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.
Lesson
A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
Class
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
Lesson
(music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
Class
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
Lesson
Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.
Class
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.
Lesson
That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.
Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind.
Class
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
Lesson
A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
Class
(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.
Lesson
A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
Class
(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.
Lesson
An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
Class
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
Lesson
To teach; to instruct.
To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad,Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
Class
Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
Lesson
A unit of instruction;
He took driving lessons
Class
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
Lesson
Punishment intended as a warning to others;
They decided to make an example of him
Class
(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.
Lesson
The significance of a story or event;
The moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
Class
(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.
Lesson
A task assigned for individual study;
He did the lesson for today
Class
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
An abstract base class
Class
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Class
(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
Class
(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
Class
(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class
Great; fabulous
Class
A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
Class
A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
Class
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.
Class
A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
She had lost one class energies.
Class
One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
Class
One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.
Class
A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.
Class
To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
Class
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class
To be grouped or classed.
The genus or family under which it classes.
Class
Exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class
Class
People having the same social or economic status;
The working class
An emerging professional class
Class
A body of students who are taught together;
Early morning classes are always sleepy
Class
Education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
He took a course in basket weaving
Flirting is not unknown in college classes
Class
A collection of things sharing a common attribute;
There are two classes of detergents
Class
A body of students who graduate together;
The class of '97
She was in my year at Hoehandle High
Class
A league ranked by quality;
He played baseball in class D for two years
Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
Class
Elegance in dress or behavior;
She has a lot of class
Class
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Class
Arrange or order by classes or categories;
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
