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low-grade, a.
[low a. 20.]
a. Of low or inferior quality.
1878[see high-grade a.]. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. iii. vi. (1881) 191 It is not low wages which will cause the working of low-grade ore. 1899Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Mar. 133 Maize flour of a low-grade quality has taken the place of low-grade wheaten flour in the manufacture of boots. 1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. iv. 39 If the good types are now crossed together, a stock will be produced..not containing harmful recessive factors and therefore not continually producing a certain proportion of low-grade individuals. 1940J. H. Jagger English in Future i. 12 Low-grade mental vocabularies consist of the auxiliary words common to all of us. a1963L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ii. 46 The Moon is especially responsible for rather low-grade persons. 1964Ann. Reg. 1963 389 Going on from this, scientists found strains of bacteria which throve on the normally poisonous metal copper, and began research into the possibility of pumping solutions of such bacteria into cracks in rocks above low-grade copper ore. 1974E. McGirr Murderous Journey 39 A cheap low-grade snooper.
b. Not high in amount or degree of intensity. Cf. low a. 9.
1940A. Huxley Let. 24 Apr. (1969) 452 There seems to be some kind of long-standing low-grade infection at work. 1950A. L. Rowse England of Elizabeth p. viii, The accumulation of capital then—as against its erosion in a low-grade consumption now. 1961Lancet 19 Aug. 402/2 Because of continuing low-grade colonic obstruction,..the left colon was excised. |