grade
Forms
- Plural
- grades
- present (v1)
- grade
- past (v2)
- graded
- past participle (v3)
- graded
- present participle
- grading
- 3rd person singular
- grades
Definitions
1.A rating.
- This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
2.Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- He got a good grade on the test.
- I gave him a good grade for effort.
- You need a grade of at least 80% in first-year calculus to be admitted to the CS major program.
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).
1.To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
2.To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.
3.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.
4.To organize in grades.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1556
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.