Grade means "to evaluate or rank," like teachers who grade their students or a food inspector who grades a crop, determining whether it is "food grade."
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing;
Noun
a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
Noun
the gradient of a slope or road or other surface; "the road had a steep grade"
Noun
a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate degree of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"
Noun
the height of the ground on which something stands; "the base of the tower was below grade"
Noun
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student''s performance); "she made good marks in algebra"; "grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?"
Noun
a degree of ablaut
Noun
a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy"
Noun
one-hundredth of a right angle
Noun
a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade"
Verb
determine the grade of or assign a grade to
Verb
assign a grade or rank to, according to one''s evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework"
Verb
assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
Verb
level to the right gradient
n.
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order;
relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of
every grade; grades of flour.
n.
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a
level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet
per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal
distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1
in 264.
n.
A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road;
a gradient.
n.
The result of crossing a native stock with some better
breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better
blood, it is called high grade.
v. t.
To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to
size, quality, rank, etc.
v. t.
To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent,
as the line of a canal or road.
v. t.
To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
n.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
Grade
They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade.2.
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Grade
>The grade of hatchets fiercely thrown. On wigwam log, and tree, and stone.
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing;
To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
Usage Examples
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
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Other Usage ExamplesI suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.
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