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noun/ɡɹeɪd/[ɡɹeɪd][ɡɹɛjd]
  1. 1

    A rating.

    • This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
    • prime grade beef
  2. 2

    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.
  3. 3

    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.
  4. 4

    Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).

  5. 5

    A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

    • The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.
  6. 6

    A level of primary and secondary education.CanadaPhilippinesUS

    • Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.
    • Clancy starts grade five this year.
  7. 7

    A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).Canada

    • The grade fives are on a field trip.
  8. 8

    An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).

  9. 9

    The level of the ground.

    • This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.
  10. 10

    A gradian.

verb/ɡɹeɪd/[ɡɹeɪd][ɡɹɛjd]
  1. 1

    To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.CanadaUS

  2. 2

    To organize in grades.

    • a graded reader
  3. 3

    To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.

    • to grade land before building on it
  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    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.

  6. 6

    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.
  7. 7

    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? […]
  8. 8

    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.
  9. 9

    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.

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