subclass
/ˈsʌbklæs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1959, "Steam's Finest Hour" edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to the R-1 Mountain class loco. These 4-8-2's, of which B&M eventually purchased 18 in various subclasses, could almost haul the tonnage of a T and more than made up for the slight deficiency by raising the maximum speed limit from 45 to 70 miles per hour, thanks to 73-inch drivers."
- "Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis."
- "I subclassed the Button class to create a more specialised FancyButton class for my user interface."
- "Since Windows knows about these events, your application should be able to know about them as well. In order to accomplish this, subclass the window of a form or control, intercepting all of its events."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classisder. Middle French classebor. English class English subclass From sub- + class.