Class and String

class

noun

A collection of things sharing a common attribute.
- usage: "there are two classes of detergents"
- synonyms: category, family
A body of students who are taught together.
- usage: "early morning classes are always sleepy"
- synonyms: form, grade, course
People having the same social, economic, or educational status.
- usage: "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
- synonyms: stratum, social class, socio-economic class
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.
- usage: "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
- synonyms: course, course of study, course of instruction
A league ranked by quality.
- usage: "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
- synonyms: division
A body of students who graduate together.
- usage: "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
- synonyms: year
Biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders. (
Elegance in dress or behavior.
- usage: "she has a lot of class"

verb

Arrange or order by classes or categories.
- usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
- synonyms: classify, sort, assort, sort out, separate

(n.) 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.
(n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
(n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
(n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into or place in, a class or classes.
(v.i.) To grouped or classed.
(n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
(n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing or pursuing the same studies.
(n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

In the case of derivative products, options of the same type-put or call-with the same underlying security. See: Series. In general, refers to a category of assets such as: domestic equity, fixed income, etc.

string

noun

A lightweight cord.
- synonyms: twine
Stringed instruments that are played with a bow.
- usage: "the strings played superlatively well"
- synonyms: bowed stringed instrument
A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.
- usage: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
- synonyms: train
A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases. )
A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening.
- usage: "he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag"
- synonyms: drawstring, drawing string
A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod. )
Cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.
- synonyms: cosmic string
A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
A necklace made by a stringing objects together.
- usage: "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- synonyms: chain, strand

verb

Thread on or as if on a string.
- usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
- synonyms: thread, draw
Add as if on a string.
- usage: "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
- synonyms: string up
Move or come along.
- synonyms: string along
Stretch out or arrange like a string.
String together; tie or fasten with a string.
- usage: "string the package"
Remove the stringy parts of.
- usage: "string beans"
Provide with strings.
- usage: "string my guitar"

(n.) A hoax; a trumped-up or "fake" story.
(n.) Act of stringing for break.
(n.) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; -- called also string line.
(n.) In various games, competitions, etc., a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
(v.t.) To hoax; josh; jolly.
(v.i.) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched or people who are moving along, etc.
(n.) In various indoor games, a score or tally, sometimes, as in American billiard games, marked by buttons threaded on a string or wire.
(n.) The line or cord of a bow.
(n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
(v.t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
(n.) The points made in a game.
(n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
(v.t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
(n.) Same as Stringcourse.
(n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
(n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
(v.t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
(v.t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
(n.) A small cord, a line, a twine or a slender strip of leather or other substance, used for binding together, fastening or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
(n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
(n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(v.t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
(n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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