grade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
education
geometry
human-sciences
linguistics
manufacturing
mathematics
medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
sewing
textiles
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: grades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: graded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: graded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rating.
pos: noun
examples: This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
gloss: Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
examples: He got a good grade on the test.
I gave him a good grade for effort.
You need a grade of at least 80% in first-year calculus to be admitted to the CS major program.
gloss: A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
pos: noun
gloss: A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
pos: noun
examples: The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.
gloss: A level of primary and secondary education.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
examples: Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.
Clancy starts grade five this year.
gloss: A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
examples: The grade fives are on a field trip.
gloss: An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
pos: noun
gloss: The level of the ground.
pos: noun
examples: This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.
gloss: A gradian.
pos: noun
gloss: In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
pos: noun
gloss: A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
pos: noun
examples: The whistle of the shot as it cuts the leaves / Of the maples around the church’s eaves— / And the grade of hatchets, fiercely thrown, / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.
gloss: A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
pos: noun
gloss: The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
pos: noun
gloss: An eyeglass prescription.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
gloss: To organize in grades.
pos: verb
examples: a graded reader
gloss: To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
pos: verb
examples: to grade land before building on it
The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
pos: verb
examples: Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.
gloss: To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
pos: verb
examples: 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? […]
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'.
gloss: To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And there were circles even beyond these – […] humanity grading and drifting beyond the educated vision, until no earthly invitation can embrace it.
gloss: To pass from one school grade into the next.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
dated
intransitive
examples: I graded out of grade two and three and arrived in Miss Hanson's room.
Derived words: 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
paygrade
pay grade
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
weapons-grade uranium
zero-grade
zero grade
zeroth grade
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: lajitella
lang: Finnish
word: luokitella
lang: Hungarian
word: osztályoz
lang: Hungarian
word: szétválogat
lang: Hungarian
word: válogat
lang: Māori
word: māhiti
lang: Māori
word: māwhiti