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The definition of grade
18 Definitions of: grade
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- noun, a position or degree in a scale, as of quality, rank, size, or progression
- noun, a group of people or things of the same category
- noun, a military or other rank
- noun, a stage in a course of progression
- noun, a mark or rating indicating achievement or the worth of work done, as at school
- noun, a unit of pupils of similar age or ability taught together at school
- noun, a) a part of a railway, road, etc, that slopes upwards or downwards; inclination b) 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. Also called: gradient
- noun, a unit of angle equal to one hundredth of a right angle or 0.9 degree
- noun, stockbreeding a) an animal with one purebred parent and one of unknown or unimproved breeding b) (as modifier). Compare crossbred, purebred
- noun, linguistics one of the forms of the vowel in a morpheme when this vowel varies because of gradation
- noun, 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
- noun, make the grade a) to reach the required standard b) to succeed
- verb, to arrange according to quality, rank, etc
- verb, to determine the grade of or assign a grade to
- verb, to achieve or deserve a grade or rank
- verb, to change or blend (something) gradually; merge
- verb, to level (ground, a road, etc) to a suitable gradient
- verb, stockbreeding to cross (one animal) with another to produce a grade animal
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©HarperCollins 2008. Collins English Dictionary definition of grade