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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

... Queen Anne distinguished him by a cordial welcome; she invited him to enter her service, an offer which he accepted, and he was placed in command of a regiment of refugees; so that he actually received in England the grade of colonel, which he had been offered in France. At the battle of Almanza the regiment commanded by Cavalier found itself opposed by a French regiment. The old enemies recognised each other, and with a ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... Bill," said the fireman. And she proceeded to rip. Jim held his hat between his knees and clung to the bench with both hands. The dinky whipped around curves and across viaducts, the grade rising steadily until just as Jim had made up his mind that his moments were numbered, they reached the first steep grade into the mountain. From this point the ride was a slow and steady climb up a pine-covered mountain. Just before sunset the engine stopped ...

— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow

... musket balls to the man squatting down in the ditch from which the earth had been thrown; but on the outside, where there was no ditch, it was so low that a battle line could march over it without halting. The ground ascended with an easy grade from our position back to Cox's line, and all the intervening space, as well as a wide expanse to our left, was as bare as a floor of any obstruction. In our front was a wide valley extending to the Winsted Hills. ...

— The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee • John K. Shellenberger

... moonshiners, an' they don't think any more about a feller that owns a bank in Atlanta 'an they do of a mossback clod-hopper with the right sort o' heart in 'im. Say, Mostyn ain't nothin' but human, an' if what some say is so he ain't the highest grade o' that. Over at Hilton's warehouse in Ridgeville t'other day I heard some cotton-buyers talkin' about men that had riz fast an' the underhanded tricks sech chaps use to hoodwink simple folks, an' they said Dick Mostyn capped the stack. Accordin' to ...

— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... a city of reason, not a city of faith. You cannot get people to try and do the impossible there. It loves to grade itself upon the possible and do that. Hence the apathy regarding Germany's resurrection. Here all is measured and planned and square and self-poised. No buildings aspire. The golden angels and the other things which ...

— Europe--Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham

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