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      grade
      noun
      (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
      (Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
      A rating.
      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).
      A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
      (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
      An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
      (Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.
      (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.
      (mathematics) A gradian.
      (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
      A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
      The level of the ground.
      verb
      (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
      To organize in grades.
      To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
      (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
      (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
      (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.
      To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
      (Canada, dated, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.
      Roots
      gradusgrad- · Latin · step, degree
      Synonyms for grade
      classnlevelndegreentiernrankngradationnscorenratingngraduatedadjcategoryn
      Words related to grade
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