2. n-f. (military) "Une classe de conscrits" refers to all the recruits conscripted in a particular year, similar to the idea of a cohort. In the plural, "classes" refers to a period of military training
3. n-f. (object-oriented programming) class
Traductions de classe et leurs définitions
class
1. adj. Classe.
2. n. Classe.
3. n. (Biologie) Classe.
4. n. (Éducation) (Royaume-Uni) Classe.
5. n. (POO) Classe.
6. v. Classer.
class
1. n. 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.
2. n. (sociology) 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.
3. n. The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
4. n. Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
5. n. (education, and un) 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.
6. n. A series of classes covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
7. n. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
8. n. 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.
9. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
10. n. Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
11. n. (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.
12. n. (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.
13. n. (object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
an abstract base class
14. n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
15. v. To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
16. v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
17. v. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
18. adj. (Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous
stratum
1. n. Couche, feuille de placage, gisement.
2. n. Strate.
stratum
1. n. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
2. n. (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
3. n. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
4. n. (biology) A layer of tissue.
5. n. A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
6. n. (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
7. n. (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
swanky
1. adj. Élégant.
swanky
1. adj. (informal) Rather posh, elegant, ritzy.
choir
1. n. (Musique) Chœur.
2. n. (Christianisme) Chœur (d'une église).
choir
1. n. Singing group; group of people who sing together; company of people who are trained to sing together.
The church choir practices Thursday nights.
2. n. (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
3. n. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.
4. n. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving.
2. adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old.
3. adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it.
a sharp hill; a face with sharp features
4. adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
5. adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone.
6. adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.
7. adj. Sudden and intense.
A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.
8. adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books.
9. adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
a sharp dealer; a sharp customer
10. adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
You'll need sharp aim to make that shot.
11. adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
sharp criticism; When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out.
12. adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
You look so sharp in that tuxedo!
13. adj. Observant; alert; acute.
Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!
14. adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.
15. adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve
16. adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number.
17. adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
18. adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air
19. adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
21. adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
22. adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
23. adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
24. adv. (notcomp) Exactly.
I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
25. adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes.
26. n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).
Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
27. n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
28. n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.
29. n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)
30. n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
31. n. A sharp tool or weapon.
32. n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
33. n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
34. n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.
This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp.
35. n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
36. n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
37. n. (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
38. n. (slang) An expert.
39. n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
40. v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
41. v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
