Definition of Grade

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Definition of Grade

Grade

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.

The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.

The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.

To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

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Grade Quotations

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
William Glasser

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
Thomas Friedman

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
Mike Krzyzewski

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
Mike Krzyzewski

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
Tina Fey

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
Fiona Apple

Grade Translations

grade in Afrikaans is graad
grade in Danish is grad
grade in Dutch is graad, mate, trap
grade in Finnish is aste, muistiinpano
grade in German is einteilen
grade in Italian is sorta
grade in Norwegian is trinn, gradere, grad, karakter, klasse
grade in Portuguese is classe
grade in Spanish is grado, fila
grade in Swedish is sortera, gradera, grad

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