grade (ɡreɪd
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Definitions
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
- mainly US 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
- US Canadian a unit of pupils of similar age or ability taught together at school
- US Canadian
- a part of a railway, road, etc, that slopes upwards or downwards; inclination
- Also called gradienta 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
- an animal with one purebred parent and one of unknown or unimproved breeding
- ((as modifier) ⇒
a grade sheep
Compare crossbred (sense 2)
, purebred (sense 2)
- linguistics one of the forms of the vowel in a morpheme when this vowel varies because of gradation
- See at grade
- See make the grade
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
Word Origin
C16: from French, from Latin gradus step, from gradī to step
Synonyms
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classify,
rate,
order,
class,
group,
sort,
value,
range,
rank,
brand,
arrange,
evaluate,
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level,
position,
rank,
group,
order,
class,
stage,
step,
station,
category,
rung,
echelon,
-grade
Definitions
combining form in adjective
- indicating a kind or manner of movement or progression ⇒
plantigrade
retrograde
Word Origin
via French from Latin -gradus, from gradus a step, from gradī to walk
