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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: classical - classy</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="classical"> classical, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with the literature, art, and life of ancient Greece and Rome. Ex. classical studies, classical students. Classical languages include ancient Greek and the Latin of the ancient Romans. <DD> 2. excellent; first-class. Ex. a classical authority. <DD> 3. simple and fine in form. Ex. the classical architecture of colonial Virginia. <DD> 4. (Music.) <DD> a. of high quality and enjoyed especially by serious students of music. Ex. Symphonies and concertos are considered classical music even when they include jazz. <DD> b. conforming to traditional standards; subordinating content to form. <DD> c. of or having to do with the era of musical classicism, variously dated but roughly between 1750 and 1820, exemplified by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, as contrasted with the preceding baroque and the subsequent romantic period. <DD> 5. based on the classics. Ex. "Ulysses" is perhaps the best of Tennyson's classical poems. <DD> 6. belonging to an earlier stage or period; being the original or traditional form of something; orthodox and established. Ex. classical physics, classical hemophilia, the classical economists. <DD> 7. denoting or having to do with a course of study or a school in which the emphasis is on broadly cultural rather than technical education. <DD> 8. (Ecclesiastical.) of or belonging to a classis. Ex. the ordinances touching classical, provincial, and national synods (Macaulay). adv. classically. </DL> <A NAME="classicalarchitecture"> classical architecture,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any architecture conceived in terms of simplicity and symmetry of structure and plan, restraint and regularity of decoration, and traditional standards of proportion, especially that which uses the orders and other forms of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. <DD> 2. the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. <DD> 3. the architecture of any of the revivals of ancient Greek and Roman styles, such as in America in the early and late 1800's. </DL> <A NAME="classicaleconomics"> classical economics,<DL COMPACT><DD> a school of economic thought developed by the Scottish political economist Adam Smith, which held as one of its tenets that, in free competition, each man in pursuit of his own prosperity would so act as to lead to the greatest economic prosperity of all, and hence that the less the government interfered with economic activities the better. </DL> <A NAME="classicalism"> classicalism, noun. =classicism.noun classicalist. </DL> <A NAME="classicality"> classicality, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. classical quality or style. <DD> 2. classical scholarship. <DD> 3. an instance or piece of classical learning, art, and the like. </DL> <A NAME="classicalness"> classicalness, noun. =classicality.</DL> <A NAME="classiccar"> classic car, =classic (noun. def. 6).</DL> <A NAME="classicism"> classicism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. the principles of the literature or art of ancient Greece and Rome. They include simplicity, regularity, restraint, and interest in form. <DD> b. the following of these principles. <DD> 2. knowledge of the literature or art of ancient Greece and Rome; classical scholarship. <DD> 3. an idiom or form from Greek or Latin introduced into another language. Also, classicalism. </DL> <A NAME="classicist"> classicist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a follower of the principles of classicism in literature and art. <DD> 2. an expert in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. <DD> 3. a person who urges the study of Greek and Latin. </DL> <A NAME="classicistic"> classicistic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by classicism. </DL> <A NAME="classicize"> classicize, verb, -cized, -cizing.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to make classic. <DD>v.i. to affect or imitate classic style or form. </DL> <A NAME="classicorders"> classic orders,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) the Grecian Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian style of columns, and the Roman Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite style of columns. </DL> <A NAME="classicrock"> classic rock,<DL COMPACT><DD> rock music, especially of the 1960's and 1970's, considered to be the original or traditional form of this music. Ex. a concert of classic rock. </DL> <A NAME="classics"> classics, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under classic. </DL> <A NAME="classific"> classific, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. distinguishing a class. <DD> 2. having to do with classification. Ex. All curators of anthropological museums must recognize the following classific concepts: material, race, geographical areas, social organizations, environment, structure and function, and evolution (Science). </DL> <A NAME="classifically"> classifically, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> with classific force; as one of a class or category. </DL> <A NAME="classification"> classification, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of arranging in classes or groups; a grouping according to some system. Ex. The classification of new books is a difficult job in any library. <DD> 2. the result of classifying; a systematic arrangement in groups or classes. Ex. The classification of books in the library helps you to find the books you want. <DD> 3. (Botany,) (Zoology.) the arrangement of plants and animals in groups or categories on the basis of ancestral relationship or structure. The categories generally used are (in descending order): phylum (or division in botany), class, order, family, genus, and species. </DL> <A NAME="classificationyard"> classification yard,<DL COMPACT><DD> a railroad yard with tracks arranged for sorting freight cars. </DL> <A NAME="classificatory"> classificatory, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with classification. </DL> <A NAME="classified"> classified, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. sorted or arranged in classes. A classified telephone directory lists names according to classes of business, services, and professions. <DD> 2. (of certain public documents of the United States) having a classification as restricted, confidential, secret, or top secret. <DD> 3. (Informal.) secret. Ex. The airplane was on a classified flight. <DD>noun a classified ad. </DL> <A NAME="classifiedad"> classified ad,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small notice, usually on a special page of a newspaper or magazine, stating that something is wanted or is offered, such as a job, an apartment, a car, a pet, or something lost or found; want ad. Classified ads are usually grouped into categories, such as real estate, help wanted, and business opportunities. </DL> <A NAME="classifier"> classifier, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who classifies. <DD> 2. (Chemistry.) an apparatus used for separating solid particles of different characteristics in a fluid. <DD> 3. a machine used for separating crushed ore into various sizes and grades. </DL> <A NAME="classify"> classify, transitive verb, -fied, -fying.<DL COMPACT><DD> to arrange in groups or classes; group according to some method or system. Ex. Employees in the post office classify mail according to the places where it is to go. (SYN) sort, assort. adj. classifiable. </DL> <A NAME="classinclusion"> class inclusion,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Logic.) the relation of one class to a second, where anything which is a member of the first class is also a member of the second. (Example:) "All roses are plants." </DL> <A NAME="classinterval"> class interval,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Statistics.) <DD> 1. one of the arbitrary groups of equal and convenient size into which the possible values of a variable are often divided. <DD> 2. the width of such a group. </DL> <A NAME="classis"> classis, noun, pl. classes.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (in certain Reformed churches) a judicatory or directing group of ministers and elders in a district, corresponding to a presbytery in Presbyterian churches. <DD> 2. the district formed by the parishes so united. <DD> 3. (Obsolete.) a presbytery. </DL> <A NAME="classism"> classism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> discrimination based on class distinctions. </DL> <A NAME="classless"> classless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without classes; not divided into social, economic, or other classes. Ex. classless society. noun classlessness. </DL> <A NAME="classman"> classman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a class, as in a college or high school (used especially in compounds). Ex. upperclassman, lowerclassman, fourth classman. </DL> <A NAME="classmate"> classmate, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the same class in school. </DL> <A NAME="classmeaning"> class meaning,<DL COMPACT><DD> the meaning common to all members of a form class. Ex. "Houses," "oxen," and "we" have the class meaning of plural. </DL> <A NAME="classnumber"> class number,<DL COMPACT><DD> the number or number and letter in library cataloging, which shows the class (as literature, history, philosophy, or science) to which a book belongs or the subject it treats. </DL> <A NAME="classroom"> classroom, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a room where classes meet; schoolroom. </DL> <A NAME="classstruggle"> class struggle,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. political conflict between opposing classes of the same society. <DD> 2. the struggle between capital and labor for power. Ex. [Karl] Marx developed the class struggle idea, namely, that the interests of capitalists and workers are so far apart that they cannot be united (Emory S. Bogardus). </DL> <A NAME="classwar"> class war, =class struggle.</DL> <A NAME="classwork"> classwork, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the schoolwork done by a student in the classroom. <DD> 2. the classroom work done jointly by the class and teacher. </DL> <A NAME="classy"> classy, adjective. classier, classiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) of high or superior class; stylish; smart. </DL> <A HREF="clastic.dic">NEXT</A>