Class vs. 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 class’;

Divisionnoun

A lesson; a class.

Classnoun

One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

Divisionnoun

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

‘I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.’;

Classverb

(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.

‘I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.’;

Divisionnoun

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

Classverb

(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.

Divisionnoun

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

‘Communities and divisions of men.’;

Classverb

(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Divisionnoun

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

‘There was a division among the people.’;

Classadjective

great; fabulous

Divisionnoun

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

‘I will put a division between my people and thy people.’;

Classnoun

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

Divisionnoun

Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

‘The motion passed without a division.’;

Classnoun

A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

Divisionnoun

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

Classnoun

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.

Divisionnoun

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

Classnoun

A set; a kind or description, species or variety.

‘She had lost one class energies.’;

Divisionnoun

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

Classnoun

One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

Divisionnoun

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

Classnoun

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.

Divisionnoun

A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

Classnoun

A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.

Divisionnoun

The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

Classverb

To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

Divisionnoun

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

Classverb

To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Divisionnoun

an army unit large enough to sustain combat;

‘two infantry divisions were held in reserve’;

Classverb

To be grouped or classed.

‘The genus or family under which it classes.’;

Divisionnoun

one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

‘the written part of the exam’; ‘the finance section of the company’; ‘the BBC's engineering division’;

Classadjective

exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class

Divisionnoun

the act or process of dividing

Classnoun

people having the same social or economic status;

‘the working class’; ‘an emerging professional class’;

Divisionnoun

an administrative unit in government or business

Classnoun

a body of students who are taught together;

‘early morning classes are always sleepy’;

Divisionnoun

an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

Classnoun

education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;

‘he took a course in basket weaving’; ‘flirting is not unknown in college classes’;

Divisionnoun

discord that splits a group

Classnoun

a collection of things sharing a common attribute;

‘there are two classes of detergents’;

Divisionnoun

a league ranked by quality;

‘he played baseball in class D for two years’; ‘Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA’;

Classnoun

a body of students who graduate together;

‘the class of '97’; ‘she was in my year at Hoehandle High’;

Divisionnoun

(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

Classnoun

a league ranked by quality;

‘he played baseball in class D for two years’; ‘Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA’;

Divisionnoun

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

Classnoun

elegance in dress or behavior;

‘she has a lot of class’;

Divisionnoun

a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

Classnoun

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

Divisionnoun

a group of ships of similar type

Classverb

arrange or order by classes or categories;

‘How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?’;

Divisionnoun

the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

Divisionnoun

the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated

‘a gene that helps regulate cell division’; ‘the division of the land into small fields’;

Divisionnoun

the distribution of something separated into parts

‘the division of his estates between the two branches of his family’;

Divisionnoun

an instance of members of a legislative body separating into two groups to vote

‘the new clause was agreed without a division’;

Divisionnoun

the action of splitting the roots of a perennial plant into parts to be replanted separately, as a means of propagation

‘the plant can also be easily increased by division in autumn’;

Divisionnoun

the action of dividing a wider class into two or more subclasses.

Divisionnoun

difference or disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension

‘a growing sense of division between north and south’; ‘deep cultural divisions’;

Divisionnoun

the process of dividing one number by another

‘no multiplication or division is necessary’;

Divisionnoun

the process of dividing a matrix, vector, or other quantity by another under specific rules to obtain a quotient.

Divisionnoun

each of the parts into which something is divided

‘the main divisions of the book’;

Divisionnoun

a major section of an organization, with responsibility for a particular area of activity

‘a retail division’;

Divisionnoun

a group of army brigades or regiments

‘an infantry division’;

Divisionnoun

a number of teams or competitors grouped together in a sport for competitive purposes according to such characteristics as ability or weight

‘the club will finish second in Division One’;

Divisionnoun

a part of a county, country, or city defined for administrative or political purposes

‘a licensing division of a district’;

Divisionnoun

a part of a county or borough forming a parliamentary constituency

‘he was MP for the Lancaster division of North Lancashire’;

Divisionnoun

a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to the phylum in zoology.

Divisionnoun

any subsidiary category between major levels of classification.

Divisionnoun

a partition

‘the villagers lived in a communal building and there were no solid divisions between neighbours’;