Sekirov Dictionary

grade

/ɡɹeɪd/

noun15

  1. (US, Canada) a letter or number that a teacher gives to show how well a student has done
  2. A rating.
  3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
  4. The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
  5. (US, Canada) A level of primary and secondary education.
  6. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
  7. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
  8. The level of the ground.
  9. (Canada) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
  10. Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
  11. A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
  12. A gradian.
  13. (Philippines) An eyeglass prescription.
  14. In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
  15. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

verb9

  1. (US, Canada) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
  2. To organize in grades.
  3. To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
  4. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
  5. To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
  6. To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. (Canada, old-fashioned) To pass from one school grade into the next.
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Phrases with grade

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