Grade

English Meaning

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.

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 level of academic development in an elementary, middle, or secondary school: learned fractions in the fourth grade.
6. A group of students at such a level: The third grade has recess at 10:30.
7. Elementary school.
8. A number, letter, or symbol indicating a student's level of accomplishment: a passing grade in history.
9. A military, naval, or civil service rank.
10. The degree of inclination of a slope, road, or other surface: the steep grade of the mountain road.
11. A slope or gradual inclination, especially of a road or railroad track: slowed the truck when he approached the grade.
12. The level at which the ground surface meets the foundation of a building.
13. A domestic animal produced by crossbreeding one of purebred stock with one of ordinary stock.
14. Linguistics A degree of ablaut.
15. To arrange in steps or degrees.
16. To arrange in a series or according to a scale.
17. To determine the quality of (academic work, for example); evaluate: graded the book reports.
18. To give a grade to (a student, for example).
19. To level or smooth to a desired or horizontal gradient: bulldozers graded the road.
20. To gradate.
21. To improve the quality of (livestock) by crossbreeding with purebred stock.
22. To hold a certain rank or position.
23. To change or progress gradually: piles of gravel that grade from coarse to fine.