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grade
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noun
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity.
the best grade of paper.
a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc.
a step or stage in a course or process.
a single division of a school classified according to the age or progress of the pupils. In the U.S., public schools are commonly divided into twelve grades below college.
the pupils in such a division.
(the) grades. elementary school.
He first began teaching in the grades.
a letter, number, or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work in a course, examination, or special assignment; mark.
a classification or standard of food based on quality, size, etc..
grade A milk.
inclination with the horizontal of a road, railroad, etc., usually expressed by stating the vertical rise or fall as a percentage of the horizontal distance; slope.
Also called grade line.ĢżBuilding Trades.Ģżthe level at which the ground intersects the foundation of a building.
an animal resulting from a cross between a parent of ordinary stock and one of a pure breed.
Mathematics.Ģżgrad.
verb (used with object)
to arrange in a series of grades; class; sort.
a machine that grades two thousand eggs per hour.
Synonyms: , , , ,to determine the grade of.
to assign a grade to (a student's work); mark.
I graded forty tests last night.
to cause to pass by degrees, as from one color or shade to another.
to reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination.
to grade a road.
to cross (an ordinary or low-grade animal) with an animal of a pure or superior breed.
verb (used without object)
to incline; slant or slope.
The road grades steeply for a mile.
to be of a particular grade or quality.
to pass by degrees from one color or shade to another; blend.
See how the various colors grade into one another.
verb phrase
to improve (a herd, flock, etc.) by breeding with purebreds.
-grade
2a combining form meaning āwalking, moving,ā in the manner or by the means specified by the initial element.
plantigrade.
grade
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noun
a position or degree in a scale, as of quality, rank, size, or progression
small-grade eggs
high-grade timber
a group of people or things of the same category
a military or other rank
a stage in a course of progression
a mark or rating indicating achievement or the worth of work done, as at school
a unit of pupils of similar age or ability taught together at school
a part of a railway, road, etc, that slopes upwards or downwards; inclination
Also called: gradient.Ģża measure of such a slope, esp the ratio of the vertical distance between two points on the slope to the horizontal distance between them
a unit of angle equal to one hundredth of a right angle or 0.9 degree
stockbreeding
linguistics one of the forms of the vowel in a morpheme when this vowel varies because of gradation
on the same level
(of a river profile or land surface) at an equilibrium level and slope, because there is a balance between erosion and deposition
informalĢż
to reach the required standard
to succeed
verb
(tr) to arrange according to quality, rank, etc
(tr) to determine the grade of or assign a grade to
(intr) to achieve or deserve a grade or rank
to change or blend (something) gradually; merge
(tr) to level (ground, a road, etc) to a suitable gradient
(tr) stockbreeding to cross (one animal) with another to produce a grade animal
-grade
2combining form
indicating a kind or manner of movement or progression
plantigrade
retrograde
grade
The degree of inclination of a slope, road, or other surface.
A grouping of organisms done purely on the basis of shared features and without regard to evolutionary relationships. Grades may include organisms that do not share a common ancestor, or may exclude some organisms having the same common ancestor as the other organisms in the grade. For this reason, many taxonomists do not accept grades as formal classifications. The class Reptilia (reptiles) is a grade since it includes dinosaurs but not birds, even though birds are descended from dinosaurs.
Compare clade
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- misgrade verb
- misgraded adjective
- multigrade adjective
- overgrade verb (used with object)
- pregrade verb (used with object)
- regrade verb (used with object)
- ungraded adjective
- well-graded adjective
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of grade1
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of grade1
Origin of grade2
Idioms and Phrases
up to grade, of the desired or required quality.
This shipment is not up to grade.
at grade,
on the same level.
A railroad crosses a highway at grade.
(of a stream bed) so adjusted to conditions of slope and the volume and speed of water that no gain or loss of sediment takes place.
make the grade, to attain a specific goal; succeed.
He'll never make the grade in medical school.
Example Sentences
Anaās son was set to graduate from eighth grade on Tuesday, and amid the ongoing ICE sweeps, her family had wrestled with whether to attend the celebration at his Mid-Wilshire area school.
Petty said he has a daughter in fourth grade and that immigration agents recently came to the neighborhood near her school.
Dutton, who was taking a break from grading final exams, was not surprised at the quiet.
But then I remembered I did dance to the Six Fat Dutchmen in the ninth grade.
Ciau was taking their daughter shopping for a dress and shoes to wear to her 8th grade graduation later that week, she told him.
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When To Use
The combining form -grade is used like a suffix meaning āwalking; moving.ā It is very occasionally used in scientific terms, especially in biology.The form -grade comes from Latin gradus, meaning āstep,ā or Latin ²µ°ł²¹»åÄ«, meaning "to walk." These two Latin sources are the root of numerous words in English, from aggressive, degree, and grade to graduate, ingredient, and progress. Check out our entries for these six words to learn more.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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