re grade
noun
1.
a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
2.
a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc.
3.
a step or stage in a course or process.
4.
a single division of a school classified according to the age or progress of the pupils. In the U.S., public schools are commonly divided into twelve grades below college.
5.
the pupils in such a division.
6.
grades, elementary school (usually preceded by the ): He first began teaching in the grades.
7.
a letter, number, or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work in a course, examination, or special assignment; mark.
8.
a classification or standard of food based on quality, size, etc.: grade A milk.
9.
inclination with the horizontal of a road, railroad, etc., usually expressed by stating the vertical rise or fall as a percentage of the horizontal distance; slope.
10.
11.
an animal resulting from a cross between a parent of ordinary stock and one of a pure breed.
12.
verb (used with object)
13.
to arrange in a series of grades; class; sort: a machine that grades two thousand eggs per hour.
14.
to determine the grade of.
15.
to assign a grade to (a student's work); mark: I graded forty tests last night.
16.
to cause to pass by degrees, as from one color or shade to another.
17.
to reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination: to grade a road.
18.
to cross (an ordinary or low-grade animal) with an animal of a pure or superior breed.
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verb (used without object)
Verb phrases 19.
to incline; slant or slope: The road grades steeply for a mile.
20.
to be of a particular grade or quality.
21.
to pass by degrees from one color or shade to another; blend: See how the various colors grade into one another.
22.
Idioms grade up, to improve (a herd, flock, etc.) by breeding with purebreds.
23.
at grade,
a.
on the same level: A railroad crosses a highway at grade.
b.
(of a stream bed) so adjusted to conditions of slope and the volume and speed of water that no gain or loss of sediment takes place.
24.
25.
up to grade, of the desired or required quality: This shipment is not up to grade.
Origin:
1505–15; < French: office < Latin gradus step, stage, degree, derivative of gradī to go, step, walk
1505–15; < French: office < Latin gradus step, stage, degree, derivative of gradī to go, step, walk
Related forms
mis·grade, verb, mis·grad·ed, mis·grad·ing.
mis·grad·ed, adjective
mul·ti·grade, adjective
o·ver·grade, verb (used with object), o·ver·grad·ed, o·ver·grad·ing.
pre·grade, verb (used with object), pre·grad·ed, pre·grad·ing, noun
re·grade, verb (used with object), re·grad·ed, re·grad·ing.
un·grad·ed, adjective
well-grad·ed, adjective
Synonyms
13. classify, rank, rate, order, categorize.
13. classify, rank, rate, order, categorize.
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grade (ɡreɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a position or degree in a scale, as of quality, rank, size, or progression: small-grade eggs; high-grade timber |
| 2. | a group of people or things of the same category |
| 3. | chiefly (US) a military or other rank |
| 4. | a stage in a course of progression |
| 5. | a mark or rating indicating achievement or the worth of work done, as at school |
| 6. | (US), (Canadian) a unit of pupils of similar age or ability taught together at school |
| 7. | (US), (Canadian) |
| a. a part of a railway, road, etc, that slopes upwards or downwards; inclination | |
| b. Also called: gradient a measure of such a slope, esp the ratio of the vertical distance between two points on the slope to the horizontal distance between them | |
| 8. | a unit of angle equal to one hundredth of a right angle or 0.9 degree |
| 9. | stockbreeding |
| a. an animal with one purebred parent and one of unknown or unimproved breeding | |
| b. crossbred Compare purebred (as modifier): a grade sheep | |
| 10. | linguistics one of the forms of the vowel in a morpheme when this vowel varies because of gradation |
| 11. | at grade |
| a. on the same level | |
| b. (of a river profile or land surface) at an equilibrium level and slope, because there is a balance between erosion and deposition | |
| 12. | informal make the grade |
| a. to reach the required standard | |
| b. to succeed | |
| —vb | |
| 13. | (tr) to arrange according to quality, rank, etc |
| 14. | (tr) to determine the grade of or assign a grade to |
| 15. | (intr) to achieve or deserve a grade or rank |
| 16. | to change or blend (something) gradually; merge |
| 17. | (tr) to level (ground, a road, etc) to a suitable gradient |
| 18. | (tr) stockbreeding to cross (one animal) with another to produce a grade animal |
| [C16: from French, from Latin gradus step, from gradī to step] | |
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Word Origin & History
grade
1511, from Fr. grade "grade, degree," from L. gradus "step, degree," replacing M.E. gree "step, degree in a series," from O.Fr. grei "step," from L. gradus, related to gradi "to walk, step, go," from PIE *ghredh- (cf. Lith. gridiju "to go, wander," O.C.S. gredo "to come," O.Ir. in-greinn "he pursues,"
and second element in congress, progress, etc.). The verb is 1659, from the noun. Railway sense is from 1835. Meaning "division of a school curriculum equivalent to one year" is from 1835; that of "letter-mark indicating assessment of a student's work" is from 1886.
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