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Grade

ɡreɪd

Grade definitions
noun
grade grades
  1. a particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, or value

    "sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades"

    • a level in a salary or employment structure

      "clerical and secretarial grades"

    • a level of importance allocated to a listed building

      "a Grade I listed building"

    • (in historical linguistics) a relative position in a series of forms involving ablaut
    • a group of animals at a similar evolutionary level
  2. a mark indicating the quality of a student's work

    "I got good grades last semester"

    • (with specifying ordinal number) those pupils in a school or school system who are grouped by age or ability for teaching at a particular level for a year

      "she teaches first grade"

    • an examination, especially in music

      "I took grade five and got a distinction"

  3. a gradient or slope

    "just over the crest of a long seven per cent grade"

  4. a variety of cattle produced by crossing with a superior breed

    "grade stock"

verb
grade graded grades grading
  1. arrange in or allocate to grades; classify or sort

    "the timber is graded according to its thickness"

  2. give a mark to (a student or a piece of work)
  3. pass gradually from one level, especially a shade of colour, into another

    "the sky graded from blue at the top of the shot to white on the horizon"

  4. reduce (a road) to an easy gradient
  5. cross (livestock) with a superior breed