class
noun
a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort.
have classed
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present perfectof class.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Before Monsters University, I'd have classed Monsters, Inc – the 2001 adventure about a pair of bogeymen employed by a corporation to scare up energy from human kids' screams – as untouchable.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2013
If you really want to catalogue neurons in their many forms—somewhat like the way scientists have classed living things into families and species and subspecies—you’re going to need a lot more categories.
From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012
If he had realized this, he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a “Not-hawk”—that is, anything from a wren to a pheasant—and continued on his way up the slope.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
It was intolerable to her that Wyndham should have classed her even for a moment with those weak emotional creatures who submitted to his influence.
From Audrey Craven by May Sinclair
At that period of history, though, watches and clocks were far less cheap and common and therefore Mr. Pitt may have classed them as luxuries and rated them as our government does perfumery.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
