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A rating.
- This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
- prime grade beef
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Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.CanadaPhilippinesUS
- He got a good grade on the test.
- I gave him a good grade for effort.
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A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff! Make sure that you get food grade diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth.
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Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
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A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.
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A level of primary and secondary education.CanadaPhilippinesUS
- Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.
- Clancy starts grade five this year.
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A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).Canada
- The grade fives are on a field trip.
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An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
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The level of the ground.
- This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.
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A gradian.
grade
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To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.CanadaUS
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To organize in grades.
- a graded reader
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To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- to grade land before building on it
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To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
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To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
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To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.
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To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- He has rightly observed that while -ísimo superlatives are typically prenominal, adjectives graded with the intensifier muy "very" are characteristically postnominal.
- Adjectives graded for comparative and superlative degree can function both attributively and predicatively. Most descriptive adjectives are gradable: As modifiers of a noun Have you got a larger size? […]
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To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.intransitive
- And there were circles even beyond these – […] humanity grading and drifting beyond the educated vision, until no earthly invitation can embrace it.
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To pass from one school grade into the next.Canadadatedintransitive
- I graded out of grade two and three and arrived in Miss Hanson's room.