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Grade

noun

1.

A body of students who are taught together. Synonyms: class, course, form.

2.

A relative position or degree of value in a graded group. Synonyms: level, tier.

3.

The gradient of a slope or road or other surface.

4.

One-hundredth of a right angle. Synonym: grad.

5.

A degree of ablaut. Synonym: gradation.

6.

A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance). Synonyms: mark, score. "Grade A milk" , "What was your score on your homework?"

7.

The height of the ground on which something stands. Synonym: ground level.

8.

A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality. Synonyms: degree, level. "A high level of care is required" , "It is all a matter of degree"

9.

A variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed.

verb

(past & past part. graded; pres. part. grading)

1.

Assign a rank or rating to. Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate. "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

2.

Level to the right gradient.

3.

Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation. Synonyms: mark, score. "Score the SAT essays" , "Mark homework"

4.

Determine the grade of or assign a grade to.

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"Grade" Quotes from Famous Books

... One was generally used as a descent, the other as an ascent from the canon below. I chose the latter, as being the freest from the chance of observation. It required the greatest caution to thread the narrow gorge; but I finally reached the rocky bench, about one thousand feet below the grade of the railroad. It was now broad daylight, and I commenced cautiously the search for Summerfield's body. There is quite a dense undergrowth of shrubs thereabouts, lining the interstices of the granite rocks so as to ...

— The Case of Summerfield • William Henry Rhodes

... stones, about fifty second grade, and twenty or so of third. The chiefs will go to the fisheries tomorrow. Then we'll be in to ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... and rough contact. He kept him, therefore, apart and aloof in their little lodging, and hoped in time to lay by, so that Sidney might ultimately be restored, if not to his bright original sphere, at least to a higher grade than that to which Philip was himself condemned. But poor Sidney could not bear to be thus left alone—to lose sight of his brother from daybreak till bed-time—to have no one to amuse him; he fretted and pined away: all the little inconsiderate selfishness, uneradicated ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 2 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... Up the grade of the hill Bob drove the big car. When they arrived at the top they peered ahead anxiously for any sign of the machine they followed. Nothing was to be ...

— Bob Cook and the German Spy • Tomlinson, Paul Greene

... graduate of the State University and has taught in the grade and high schools. In 1905, she became a candidate for Superintendent of Schools of Chase County. Her success and her unusual ability as a teacher were rewarded by a two to one majority on a close county ticket. At the second term, she had ...

— Kansas Women in Literature • Nettie Garmer Barker

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