Advertisement
Advertisement
grade
1[ greyd ]
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.
- Building Trades. Also called grade line. the 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. grad 2.
verb (used with object)
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
2- a combining form meaning “walking, moving,” in the manner or by the means specified by the initial element:
plantigrade.
grade
1/ ɡɪ /
noun
- a position or degree in a scale, as of quality, rank, size, or progression
high-grade timber
small-grade eggs
- 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 calledgradient a 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
- linguistics one of the forms of the vowel in a morpheme when this vowel varies because of gradation
- at grade
- 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
- make the grade informal.
- 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
retrograde
plantigrade
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 Word Forms
- · verb misgraded misgrading
- ·· adjective
- ܱ·پ· adjective
- ·· verb (used with object) overgraded overgrading
- · verb (used with object) pregraded pregrading noun
- · verb (used with object) regraded regrading
- ܲ·· adjective
- ɱ-· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of grade1
Word History and Origins
Origin of grade1
Origin of grade2
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
- up to grade, of the desired or required quality:
This shipment is not up to grade.
More idioms and phrases containing grade
see make the grade .Example Sentences
If you do not think your grade is right, you should first talk to your school or college.
The proposed new system of Ofsted inspections will no longer give a single overall grade to an institution.
“Last night he told me to wake up as early as possible and just show up,” says Castaneda, 33, a friend of Solis’ since they were in seventh grade.
In a normal year, the pass rate for each grade is adjusted slightly but the average effect is small.
The school requires students in seventh grade and above to get their Tdap booster, which provides elevated immunity against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis, or whooping cough.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse