grade

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) grade


grade

This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.

He got a good grade on the test.

I gave him a good grade for effort.

You need a grade of at least 80% in first-year calculus to be admitted to the CS major program.

(chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff! Make sure that you get food grade diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth.

1986–2012, paul wheaton permaculture, “Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat!”, in richsoil.com, retrieved 2014-03-17:

A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.

(linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).

The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.

A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.

Clancy starts grade five this year.

(Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.

The grade fives are on a field trip.

(Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).

An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).

This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.

(geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.

The whistle of the shot as it cuts the leaves / Of the maples around the church’s eaves— / And the grade of hatchets, fiercely thrown, / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.

1836, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mogg Megone, A Poem, →OCLC:

(systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.

(medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.

(Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.

→ Japanese: グレード (gurēdo)

→ Swahili: gredi

notë

performance expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol

aste

geometry: number of free intersection points of n generic divisors

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus.
Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian grìdiju (“to go, wander”).


grade

(chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.

a graded reader

to grade land before building on it

The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.

2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 129:

To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.

(sewing) 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.

(patternmaking) To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.

Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.

To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).

He has rightly observed that while -ísimo superlatives are typically prenominal, adjectives graded with the intensifier muy "very" are characteristically postnominal.

1999, Jon Franco, Alazne Landa, Juan Martín, Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Mario Saltarelli, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:

Adjectives graded for comparative and superlative degree can function both attributively and predicatively. Most descriptive adjectives are gradable: As modifiers of a noun Have you got a larger size? […]

2014, Angela Downing, English Grammar: A University Course, Routledge, →ISBN, page 430:

Similarly to the Hungarian adjectives graded with the suffix -ik, in place of naj, najto, or, in agreement with the noun, -najte, -najta, -najto forms occur, e.g., najtolepsi or najtelepsi, najtelepsa, najtelepse 'most beautiful'.

2020, Prekmurje Slovene Grammar: Avgust Pavel’s Vend nyelvtan (1942), BRILL, →ISBN, page 82:

(linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.

And there were circles even beyond these – […] humanity grading and drifting beyond the educated vision, until no earthly invitation can embrace it.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 34:

(intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.

I graded out of grade two and three and arrived in Miss Hanson's room.

(Canada, no longer current, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.

en-verb

grade (third-person singular simple present grades, present participle grading, simple past and past participle graded)

grades (present singular third-person)
grading (participle present)
graded (participle past)
graded (past)


grade

Ce que je puis dire, c’est que le choix qu’avait fait ce gentilhomme de la carrière des armes lui avait si bien réussi, qu’en peu d’années, par sa valeur et sa belle conduite, et sans autre appui que son mérite éclatant, il parvint au grade de capitaine d’infanterie, et se vit en passe d’être promu bientôt à celui de mestre de camp.

1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLII, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cⁱᵉ, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

What I can say, is that the choice that this gentleman made concerning the career of arms succeeded well for him, that in few years, by his valour and good conduct, and without any support other than his shining merit, he reached the rank of captain of infantry, and saw himself in a position to be soon promoted to that of master of corps.

→ Romanian: grad

Borrowed from Latin gradus. Compare degré. Doublet of gradus.


grade

Iten, preçaron duas grades e hun chedeiro e dous temoos de cerna, a parte dos menores em quorenta :XL -? maravedis

1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 74:

Item, they appraised two harrows, a cart's bed and two shafts of heartwood, the part corresponding to the kids, 40 coins

harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese grade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cratis, cratem (“wickerwork”).


grade

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of gradar:
third-person singular imperative


grade

O Conpresp (conselho municipal de patrimônio de São Paulo) decidiu nesta segunda-feira (4) adiar uma eventual decisão sobre a instalação de grades no entorno da praça da República, na região central da capital paulista.

2024 November 4, Clayton Castelani, “Conselho adia debate sobre cercar praça da República para reduzir roubos”, in Folha de S.Paulo, São Paulo: Folha da Manhã, →ISSN:

From Old Galician-Portuguese grade, from Latin crātis, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *krtis.