Class vs. Cohort — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Class and Cohort
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Class
A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
Cohort
An ancient Roman military unit, comprising six centuries, equal to one tenth of a legion.
Class
A grade of mail
A package sent third class.
Cohort
A group of people with a shared characteristic
A cohort of civil servants patiently drafting legislation
Class
A quality of accommodation on public transport
Tourist class.
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Cohort
A supporter or companion
Young Jack arrived with three of his cohorts
A long-time cohort of the band
Class
A social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics
The lower-income classes.
Cohort
A group or band of people.
Class
Social rank or caste, especially high rank.
Cohort
A companion or associate.
Class
(Informal)Elegance of style, taste, and manner
An actor with class.
Cohort
A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research
“The cohort of people aged 30 to 39 ... were more conservative” (American Demographics).
Class
A group of students who are taught together, usually at a regularly scheduled time and in the same subject.
Cohort
One of the 10 divisions of a Roman legion, consisting of 300 to 600 men.
Class
The period during which such a group meets
Had to stay after class.
Cohort
A group of soldiers.
Class
The subject material taught to or studied by such a group
Found the math class challenging.
Cohort
A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
Class
A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
Cohort
(statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
Class
(Biology)A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.
Cohort
Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).
Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
Class
(Statistics)An interval in a frequency distribution.
Cohort
An accomplice; abettor; associate.
He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.
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.
Cohort
Any band or body of warriors.
Class
(Mathematics)A collection of sets whose members share a specified property.
Cohort
(taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
Class
To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.
Cohort
A colleague.
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.
Cohort
A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
The students in my cohort for my organic chemistry class this year are not up to snuff. Last year's cohort scored much higher averages on the mid-term.
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.
Cohort
To associate with such a group
Class
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
Cohort
A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
Class
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
Cohort
Any band or body of warriors.
With him the cohort brightOf watchful cherubim.
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.
Cohort
A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.
Class
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
Cohort
A company of companions or supporters
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.
Cohort
A band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
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.
Cohort
A group people having approximately the same age
Class
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
Class
Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
Class
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
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.
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.
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?
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