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.
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A step, degree, or rank in any series or order; relative position or standing as regards quantity, quality, office, etc.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In trigonometry, in the centesimal system, the hundredth part of a right angle: also, the hundredth part of a quadrant.
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A small difference between the brightness of two stars: substantially the same as a step: a term used by observers of variable stars.
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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.