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grade /grād/ noun- A degree or step in quality, rank or dignity
- A stage of advancement
- A rank
- A yearly stage in education (N American)
- A pupil's mark of proficiency (orig US)
- (in pl, with the) elementary school, grade school (N American)
- A position in a scale
- A class, or position in a class, according to value, merit, quality
- A position in an ablaut series (philology)
- One-hundredth part of a right angle (mathematics)
- A gradient or slope (chiefly US)
- An inclined or level stretch of road or railway (US)
- A class of animals produced by crossing a breed with one purer
- A group of animals of a similar evolutionary stage (zoology)
transitive verb- To arrange according to grade
- To assign a grade to
- To adjust the gradients of
- To cross a breed of animal with one purer
intransitive verb- To change gradually from one grade, level, value, etc to another
- (of produce, etc) to take or fall within a (specified) grade (sometimes with out)
adjective Of improved stock ORIGIN: L gradus a step, from gradī to step grādabilˈity noun grāˈdable adjective - Able to be graded
- Of or relating to a word that can be modified or used in the comparative or superlative (linguistics; also noun)
gradate /grə-dātˈ/ transitive verb and intransitive verb To shade off, change grade, values, etc imperceptibly transitive verb To arrange according to grades gradāˈtim /gra-däˈtim/ adverb (Latin) Step by step gradāˈtion noun - A degree or step
- A rising step by step
- Progress from one degree or state to another
- A position attained
- The state of being arranged in ranks
- A gradual shift in grade, etc
- A diatonic succession of chords (music)
- A gradual shading off
- Ablaut (philology)
gradāˈtional adjective gradāˈtionally adverb gradāˈtioned adjective Formed by gradations or stages gradatory /gradˈət-ə-ri/ adjective - Proceeding step by step
- Adapted for walking
grādˈer noun - A person who, or thing which, grades
- A machine used to create a flat surface for road-building
- (in combination, as eg sixthgrader) a school pupil in a specified grade (N American)
grādˈing noun - A process of assigning grades
- The grade assigned
grade crossing noun (N American) A level crossing graded-index fibre noun A fibre in an optical-fibre cable, in which the refractive index of the glass decreases gradually or in small steps from the central core to the periphery graded post noun (in British schools) a post with some special responsibility, and so extra payment grade school noun (N American) An elementary school corresponding broadly to the British primary school, often with a nursery school element grade separation noun (US) A crossing at which one road, etc, is an underpass or an overpass grading system noun A system to establish the rate at which an employee will be paid on a company's incremental pay scales (taking eg qualifications, experience and age into account) at grade (US) On the same level make the grade - Orig to succeed in climbing a steep hill
- To overcome obstacles
- To succeed
- To be up to standard
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