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.

1. A rating.
2. the performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, 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. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
5. A level of pre-collegiate education.
6. A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
7. an area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
8. the level of the ground.
9. A gradian.
10. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
11. to assign scores to the components of an academic test.
12. to assign a score to overall academic performance.
13. to flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
14. 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.

1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing
2.
3. 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; ; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
4. A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
5. 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.
6. to arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
7. to reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
8. to cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

1. to sort out or arrange in order according to size, quality, rank, degree of advancement, etc.: as, to grade fruit, wheat, or sugar; to grade the children of a school.
2. to reduce, as the line of a canal, road, or railway, to such levels or degrees of inclination as may make it suitable for being used.
3. to improve the breed of. as common stock, by crossing with animals of pure blood.
4. same as graith.
5. in physical geography, to develop by eroding or filling (degrading or aggrading) into an even slope on which an eroding and transporting agent (such as a stream) will not actively build up or wear down its course.
6. in philology to alter or be altered by gradation or ablaut.
7. to prove to be of a certain grade or quality.
8. A step, degree, or rank in any series or order; relative position or standing as regards quantity, quality, office, etc.
9. in a road or railroad, the degree of inclination from the horizontal; also, a part of such a road inclined from the horizontal. it is expressed in degrees, in feet per mile, or as a foot in a certain distance.
10. in zoölogical classification, any group or series of animals, with reference to their earlier or later branching off from the stem or stock from which they are presumed to have evolved.
11. an animal, particularly a cow or bull or a sheep, resulting from a cross between a parent of pure blood and one that is not pure-bred: as, an Aldevney grade. [also used as an adjective.]
12. in trigonometry, in the centesimal system, the hundredth part of a right angle: also, the hundredth part of a quadrant.
13. A small difference between the brightness of two stars: substantially the same as a step: a term used by observers of variable stars.
14. in philol., one of the positions or forms assumed by a vowel or root in a series of phonetic changes caused primarily by change of stress and other factors, as the vowels in english sing, sang, sung, ride, rode, ridden, etc., latin capio, cepi, -cipio, etc., greek √

1. a degree of ablaut
2. assign a rank or rating to
3. the gradient of a slope or road or other surface
4. the height of the ground on which something stands
5. determine the grade of or assign a grade to
6. a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
7. one-hundredth of a right angle
8. assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
9. level to the right gradient
10. a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
11. a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
12. a body of students who are taught together
13. a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)