noun. A stage or degree in a process.

noun. A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity.

noun. An accepted level or standard.

noun. A set of persons or things all falling in the same specified limits; a class.

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noun. A level of academic development in an elementary, middle, or secondary school.

noun. A group of students at such a level.

noun. Elementary school.

noun. A number, letter, or symbol indicating a student's level of accomplishment.

noun. A military, naval, or civil service rank.

noun. The degree of inclination of a slope, road, or other surface.

noun. A slope or gradual inclination, especially of a road or railroad track.

noun. The level at which the ground surface meets the foundation of a building.

noun. A domestic animal produced by crossbreeding one of purebred stock with one of ordinary stock.

noun. A degree of ablaut.

intransitive verb. To arrange in grades; sort or classify.

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intransitive verb. To determine the quality of (academic work, for example); evaluate.

intransitive verb. To give a grade to (a student, for example).

intransitive verb. To level or smooth to a desired or horizontal gradient.

intransitive verb. To gradate.

intransitive verb. To improve the quality of (livestock) by crossbreeding with purebred stock.

intransitive verb. To change or progress gradually.

Same as graith.

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.

In philology to alter or be altered by gradation or ablaut.

To prove to be of a certain grade or quality.

noun. A step, degree, or rank in any series or order; relative position or standing as regards quantity, quality, office, etc.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.]

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.

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.

To improve the breed of. as common stock, by crossing with animals of pure blood.

noun. In trigonometry, in the centesimal system, the hundredth part of a right angle: also, the hundredth part of a quadrant.

noun. A small difference between the brightness of two stars: substantially the same as a step: a term used by observers of variable stars.

noun. 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 √λειπ, √λιπ, √λοιπ, leave, √τεμ, √ταμ, √τομ, cut, etc.

noun. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing

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noun. 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.

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

noun. 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.

noun. on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing.

noun. a descent, as on a graded railroad.

noun. an ascent, as on a graded railroad.

noun. See under Equate.

noun. a crossing at grade.

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

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

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

"The school district in which I teach the second largest in the U.S. recently announced a new policy limiting a student's homework liability to 10% of his or her term grade."