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    grade
    [ɡrād]
    noun
    grades (plural noun)
    1. a particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, intensity, or value:
      "sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades" · "grade AA butter"
    2. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      a mark indicating the quality of a student's work:
      "I got good grades last semester"
      • (with specifying ordinal number) those students in a school or school system who are grouped by age or ability for teaching at a particular level for a year:
        "she teaches first grade"
      • BRITISH ENGLISH
        an examination, especially in music:
        "I took grade five and got a distinction"
    3. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      a gradient or slope:
      "just over the crest of a long seven percent grade"
    4. a variety of cattle produced by crossing with a superior breed:
      "grade stock"
    verb
    grades (third person present)
    1. arrange in or allocate to grades; class or sort:
      "they are graded according to thickness" · "carefully graded exercises"
    2. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      give a mark to (a student or a piece of work).
    3. pass gradually from one level, especially a shade of color, into another:
      "the sky graded from blue to white on the horizon"
    4. reduce (a road) to an easy gradient.
    5. cross (livestock) with a superior breed.
    Origin
    early 16th century: from French, or from Latin gradus ‘step’. Originally used as a unit of measurement of angles (a degree of arc), the term later referred to degrees of merit or quality.
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    verb (used with object), grad·ed, grad·ing. to arrange in a series of grades; class; sort: a machine that grades two thousand eggs per hour. to determine the grade of. to assign a grade to (a student's work); mark: I graded forty tests last night. to cause to pass by degrees, as from one color or shade to another.
    Grade definition: a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity. See examples of GRADE used in a sentence.
    The grade of a product is its quality, especially when this has been officially judged. ...a good grade of plywood. Your grade in an examination or piece of written work is the mark you get, usually in the form of a letter or number, that indicates your level of achievement.
    www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/grade
    Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. n. 1. A stage or degree in a process. 2. A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity: a poor grade of lumber. 3. An accepted level or standard. 4. A set of persons or things all falling in the same specified limits; a class. 5. a.
  3. grade noun [C] (MEASURE/MARK) a measure of the quality of a student’s performance, usually represented by the letters A (the best) through F (the worst): She always gets good grades. A grade is also a measure or mark of quality, amount, or degree:
    dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/grade
    grade (grād) n. 1. A stage or degree in a process. 2. A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity: a poor grade of lumber.
    www.thefreedictionary.com/graded
    a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper. a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc. verb (used with object), grad·ed, grad·ing.
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    Definition of grade (Entry 1 of 4) 1 a : a level of study in an elementary, middle, or secondary school that is completed by a student during one year will enter eleventh grade this year students in the second grade
    www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grade
    n., v. grad•ed, grad•ing. n. 1. a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity. 2. a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc.
    www.thefreedictionary.com/grades
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