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grade

Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪd/

The English word “grade” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A rating.
  2. Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
  3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
  4. 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
  6. A level of primary and secondary education.
  7. A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
  8. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
  9. The level of the ground.
  10. A gradian.
  11. 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. A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  14. The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
  15. An eyeglass prescription.

verb

  1. To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
  2. To organize in grades.
  3. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
  4. 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 increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian gri̇̀diju (“to go, wander”).

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