grade

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɹeɪd/
• Homophones: grayed, greyed

Noun

grade (plural grades)

1. A rating.
   • This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
   • I gave him a good grade for effort.
2. (chiefly Canada, US) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
   • Synonym: mark
   • He got a good grade on the test.
   • You need a grade of at least 80% in first-year calculus to be admitted to the CS major program.
3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
4. (linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
5. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
   • The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.
6. (Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
   • Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.
   • Clancy starts grade five this year.
7. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
   • The grade fives are on a field trip.
8. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
9. The level of the ground.
   • This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.
10. (mathematics) A gradian.
11. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
12. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
13. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
14. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
15. (ophthalmology, Philippines) An eyeglass prescription.

Verb

grade (third-person singular simple present grades, present participle grading, simple past and past participle graded)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
2. To organize in grades.
   • a graded reader
3. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
   • to grade land before building on it
4. (sewing) 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.
5. To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
   • Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.
6. (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
7. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
8. (Canada, no longer current, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.
   • I graded out of grade two and three and arrived in Miss Hanson's room.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Adger, Degar, EDGAR, Edgar, Gerda, garde, radge, raged

Noun

grade

1. plural of graad

Adverb

grade

1. gradually

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡʁad/
• Homophone: grades

Noun

grade m (plural grades)

1. rank
2. (geometry) gradian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɾaðe̝/

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

1. (archaic) cage
2. grate (metal grille)
3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
4. any similarly formed frame or structure
5. common starfish (Asterias rubens)
   • Synonyms: estrela do mar, rapacricas
6. Ursa Major
   • Synonyms: Carro, Osa Maior

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡraːdə/

Adverb

grade

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of gerade

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gra‧de

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

1. grate (metal grille)
2. a light fence
3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
4. grid

Verb

grade

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈɡrade]

Noun

grade n

1. indefinite plural of grad

Noun

grade (Cyrillic spelling граде)

1. vocative singular of grad

Verb

grade

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative