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grade

  • /ɡɹeɪd/
  • [ɡɹeɪd] UK, US
  • [ɡɹɛjd] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ɡɹeːd] Canada
  • [ɡɹæɪd] Australia

Sounds like grayed, greyed (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus.

Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian gri̇̀diju (“to go, wander”).

noun grades

  1. A rating. This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
  2. Canada, Philippines, US Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. He got a good grade on the test.
  3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff! Make sure that you get food grade diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth.
  4. Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
  5. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.
  6. Canada, Philippines, US A level of primary and secondary education. Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.
  7. Canada A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level). The grade fives are on a field trip.
  8. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
  9. The level of the ground. This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.
  10. A gradian.
  11. In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
  12. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. The whistle of the shot as it cuts the leaves / Of the maples around the church’s eaves— / And the grade of hatchets, fiercely thrown, / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.
  13. A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  14. The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
  15. Philippines An eyeglass prescription.

verb grades · grading · graded

  1. Canada, US To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
  2. To organize in grades. a graded reader
  3. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader. to grade land before building on it
  4. To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
  5. To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
  6. To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process). Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.
  7. To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree. He has rightly observed that while -ísimo superlatives are typically prenominal, adjectives graded with the intensifier muy "very" are characteristically postnominal.
  8. intransitive To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another. And there were circles even beyond these – […] humanity grading and drifting beyond the educated vision, until no earthly invitation can embrace it.
  9. Canada, dated, intransitive To pass from one school grade into the next. I graded out of grade two and three and arrived in Miss Hanson's room.

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