Meaning of grade in English

grade

noun [ C ]

/ɡreɪd/ us

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grade noun [C] (LEVEL)

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a level of quality, size, importance, etc.:

low-grade He's suffering from some kind of low-grade (= slight) infection, which he can't seem to get rid of.

high-grade There's some really high-grade (= high quality) musicianship on this recording.

on a grade UK Bill has been on the same grade (= his job has been of the same level of importance, or he has had the same level of pay) for several years now.

a number or letter that shows how good someone's work or performance is:

Steve never studies, but he always gets good grades.

UK Carla got a grade A in German.

Synonym

mark (FOR SCHOOL WORK) mainly UK

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Sally's a grade above me.
She's got nine GCSEs, all at grade A.
He has attained the highest grade in his music exams.
Jonathon Hill achieved grade A passes at A-level.
Whether I go to university or not is dependent on what exam grades I get.

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Quality and standard

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Marks & results

grade noun [C] (SCHOOL)

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a school class or group of classes in which all the children are of a similar age or ability:

Jackie is in the sixth grade.

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She starts in the third grade this September.
Pupils take exams in the fourth and sixth grades.
They were in the same grade at school.
Students in the eighth grade have the chance to go on an exchange visit to France.
He teaches maths to the third grade.

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Classes & courses

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grade noun [C] (SLOPE)

a gradient :

steep grade The next hill has a really steep grade.

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Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations

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Idiom

make the grade

grade

verb [ T ]

/ɡreɪd/ us

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to separate people or things into different levels of quality, size, importance, etc.:

be graded by The fruit is washed and then graded by size.

The books are graded according to the difficulty of the language.

C1 US

(UK mark)

to give a score to a student's piece of work:

to grade work/papers

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Classifying and creating order

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Analysing and evaluating

(Definition of grade from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

grade | American Dictionary

grade

noun [ C ]

/ɡreɪd/

grade noun [C] (MEASURE/MARK)

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a measure of the quality of a student’s performance, usually represented by the letters A (the best) through F (the worst):

She always gets good grades.

A grade is also a measure or mark of quality, amount, or degree:

high-grade musicianship

He’s suffering from a low-grade infection.

grade noun [C] (SCHOOL)

a school class or group of classes in which all the children are of a similar age or ability:

James is in the seventh grade this year.

grade noun [C] (SLOPE)

the degree of slope of land or of a road or path:

In hilly San Francisco, many streets have a steep grade.

grade

verb [ T ]

/ɡreɪd/

grade verb [T] (MEASURE/MARK)

to judge and give a mark to a student, exam, etc.:

The essays were graded on clarity of expression.

To grade is also to separate things according to quality or size:

Eggs are usually graded by size.

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grade | Business English

grade

noun [ C ]

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BANKING

a letter or combination of letters used by ratings agencies to show how certain they are that a loan will be paid back by the person or organization that borrowed the money:

Bonds which are rated A are considered as upper-medium grade obligations.

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investment-grade

PRODUCTION

one of the levels of quality given to a particular product or substance :

March futures on commercial grade coffee closed at $1.04 per pound Friday.

high/low grade Technicians carefully loaded new fuel rods of high grade uranium into the cooling water.

aircraft/human/weapons, etc. grade The scooters are made from aircraft grade aluminium alloy and weigh just 2.76kg.

a level or division within an organization or system:

The administrative grade, recruited from top-quality university graduates, prepares policy advice for ministers.

a pay/salary grade

make the grade

to be as good as expected or as good as is necessary:

Many of the online shops simply failed to make the grade.

grade

verb [ T ]

PRODUCTION, HR

/ɡreɪd/ us

to judge the quality of a product, substance, or organization, or the performance of an employee:

The fibre is graded and packed into bales for transport to factories for spinning, dying, and milling.

be graded on sth He said that principals and superintendents would be graded on leadership and school performance.

be graded for sth Inside the world's largest covered building, the flowers are graded for quality and catalogued by computer.

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Examples of grade

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Considering the high grade of preservation, the mineral formation process was probably a relatively quick event.

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From each of these four programs and for each grade, three reading texts were selected at random.

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Taken together, throwing away terms of high enough grade and the removal of terms with even l after summation removes a high proportion of commutators.

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The authors' grading scheme is telling in this respect.

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Sandalwood is graded into a number of classes which reflect different quality of scented heartwood and to distinguish between dried heartwood and sapwood timber.

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The average for each grade was a negative value; however, the fourth and sixth graders' averages tended to approach zero.

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Senior staff were headhunted by other companies, whilst there was a great turnover in staff amongst the labouring grades.

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However, subscale values did not significantly differ according to country of qualification, clinical speciality, number of years worked in psychiatry, place of work, clinical grade.

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Embracing the idea that representations may be graded opens up many interesting conceptual possibilities.

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At the first grade level, reading instruction does not follow the phonics method, nor does it entail systematic instruction in phonemic awareness.

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At what rate do learners learn and retain new vocabulary from reading a graded reader?

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Specifically, for the moderate declining group, we found evidence that grade retention aggravated classroom physical aggression, but only when it occurred prior to age 13.

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The joke is lost on those for whom public schools are state schools, with not standards but grades.

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Since the robot is only expected to have to negotiate small grades, it only incorporates suspension systems at the two lateral wheels.

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Teacher-rated academic per formance in sixth grade was not predictive of discordant cases in any of the three trajectory classes.

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Collocations with grade

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cumulative grade point average

A minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 is required.

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failing grade

Students who get a failing grade of 2, have two more chances to pass an examination.

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final grade

All were in the final grade (grade 8) of primary school.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

等級, 等級，品級，級別, 成績等級，評分等級，分數…

Meaning of grade in English

grade noun [C] (LEVEL)

grade noun [C] (SCHOOL)

grade noun [C] (SLOPE)

Idiom

grade | American Dictionary

grade noun [C] (MEASURE/MARK)

grade noun [C] (SCHOOL)

grade noun [C] (SLOPE)

grade verb [T] (MEASURE/MARK)

grade | Business English

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