Open Class

Open class may refer to:

  • Open Class (Track and Field), an event classification
  • Open class (linguistics), a word class readily accepting new items
  • Open class (horse racing), a standardbred racing event open to all comers
  • FAI Open Class glider competition class with unlimited wingspan
  • IBM Open Class (IOC), a C++ class library
  • Open class system, a state of society

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or class:

    “The child ... stands upon a place apart, a little spectator of the world, before whom men and women come and go, events fall out, years open their slow story and are noted or let go as his mood chances to serve them. The play touches him not. He but looks on, thinks his own thought, and turns away, not even expecting his cue to enter the plot and speak. He waits,—he knows not for what.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them—their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)