grade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪd/
ipa: [ɡɹeɪd]
ipa: [ɡɹɛjd]
ipa: [ɡɹeːd]
ipa: [ɡɹæɪd]
homophone: grayed
homophone: greyed
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: grades
form: grading
form: graded
form: graded
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus.
Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian gri̇̀diju (“to go, wander”).
Senses: glosses: To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
examples: text: a graded reader
glosses: To organize in grades.
examples: text: to grade land before building on it
text: The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 129:
glosses: To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.
glosses: To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
examples: text: He has rightly observed that while -ísimo superlatives are typically prenominal, adjectives graded with the intensifier muy "very" are characteristically postnominal.
ref: 1999, Jon Franco, Alazne Landa, Juan Martín, Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Mario Saltarelli, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
text: 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? […]
ref: 2014, Angela Downing, English Grammar: A University Course, Routledge, →ISBN, page 430:
text: Similarly to the Hungarian adjectives graded with the suffix -ik, in place of naj, najto, or, in agreement with the noun, -najte, -najta, -najto forms occur, e.g., najtolepsi or najtelepsi, najtelepsa, najtelepse 'most beautiful'.
ref: 2020, Prekmurje Slovene Grammar: Avgust Pavel’s Vend nyelvtan (1942), BRILL, →ISBN, page 82:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
examples: text: And there were circles even beyond these – […] humanity grading and drifting beyond the educated vision, until no earthly invitation can embrace it.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 34:
glosses: To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
examples: text: I graded out of grade two and three and arrived in Miss Hanson's room.
glosses: To pass from one school grade into the next.
Derived terms: 0th grade
10th grade
11th grade
12th grade
13th grade
1st grade
2nd grade
3rd grade
4th grade
5th grade
6th grade
7th grade
8th grade
9th grade
age grade
aggrade
A-grade
at-grade
at grade
beyond one's pay grade
bigrade
centigrade
C-grade
consumer-grade
cross-grade
decigrade
disgrade
downgrade
e-grade
eighth grade
eleventh grade
field grade
fifth grade
first grade
food-grade
fourth grade
full-grade
gradability
gradable
grade 0
grade 1
grade 10
grade 11
grade 12
grade 13
grade 2
grade 3
grade 4
grade 5
grade 6
grade 7
grade 8
grade 9
grade-A
gradebook
grade cricket
grade crossing
gradee
grade eight
grade eleven
grade five
grade four
grade-grub
grade grubber
grade grubbing
grade inflation
gradeless
grade line
grade nine
grade on a curve
grade one
grade point
grade point average
grader
grade school
grade-separated
grade seven
grade six
grade sixer
grade system
grade-taking
grade ten
grade thirteen
grade thirteener
grade three
grade twelve
grade two
gradewide
grade zero
gradient
helper grade
high-grade
industrial-grade
intergrade
lengthened grade
letter grade
lieutenant junior grade
low grade
low-grade
low-grade fever
make the grade
meibograde
midgrade
military grade
milligrade
misgrade
monograde
multigrade
ninth grade
o-grade
orthograde
outgrade
overgrade
passing grade
pay grade
paygrade
pharmaceutical grade
quadrigrade
rear admiral junior grade
regrade
reserve grade
ruling grade
sashimi grade
second grade
seventh grade
sixth grade
slab on grade
subgrade
sushi grade
tenth grade
third grade
thirteenth grade
top-grade
twelfth grade
undergrade
upgrade
vanishing grade
weapons-grade
zero grade
zero-grade
zeroth grade