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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -grade adj combining form - indicating a kind or manner of movement or progression: plantigrade, retrograde
Etymology: via French from Latin -gradus, from gradus a step, from gradī to walk WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024grade /greɪd/USA pronunciation n., v., grad•ed, grad•ing. n. - a degree or step in a scale of quality, rank, advancement, or value:[countable]several grades of wool.
- [countable] a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc.
- Educationa single division of a school classified, usually by year, according to the age or progress of the pupils: [uncountable]She was in third grade.[countable]students in seventh and eighth grades.
- Education[countable] the pupils in such a division, thought of as a group.
- Education[countable] a letter or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work;
mark. - Civil Engineering, Rail Transport, Transport the degree at which a hill, mountain, etc., slopes up or down:[countable]steep uphill grades.
v. [~ + object] - to arrange in a series of grades;
classify; sort:a machine that grades eggs. - Educationto assign a grade to (a student's work);
mark. - Civil Engineeringto reduce to a level that is less steep:to grade a road.
Idioms- Idioms make the grade, to attain or reach a specific goal;
succeed. See -grad-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024grade (grād),USA pronunciation n., v., grad•ed, grad•ing. n. - 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.
- Educationa 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.
- Educationthe pupils in such a division.
- Education grades, elementary school (usually prec. by the):He first began teaching in the grades.
- Educationa letter, number, or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work in a course, examination, or special assignment;
mark. - Fooda classification or standard of food based on quality, size, etc.:grade A milk.
- Civil Engineering, Rail Transport, Transportinclination 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. - BuildingAlso called grade line. the level at which the ground intersects the foundation of a building.
- Animal Husbandryan animal resulting from a cross between a parent of ordinary stock and one of a pure breed.
- Mathematicsgrad2.
- Idioms at grade:
- Rail Transporton 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.
- Idioms make the grade, to attain a specific goal;
succeed:He'll never make the grade in medical school. - Idioms up to grade, of the desired or required quality:This shipment is not up to grade.
v.t. - to arrange in a series of grades;
class; sort:a machine that grades two thousand eggs per hour. - 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.
- Civil Engineeringto reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination:to grade a road.
- Animal Husbandryto cross (an ordinary or low-grade animal) with an animal of a pure or superior breed.
v.i. - 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. - Animal Husbandry grade up, to improve (a herd, flock, etc.) by breeding with purebreds.
- Latin gradus step, stage, degree, derivative of gradī to go, step, walk
- French: office
- 1505–15
- 16.See corresponding entry in Unabridged classify, rank, rate, order, categorize.
-grade, - a combining form meaning "walking, moving,'' in the manner or by the means specified by the initial element:plantigrade.
- Latin -gradus, combining form representing gradus step or gradī to walk. See grade, gradient
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