Meaning

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

    benoten

  2. To organize in grades.

    a graded reader

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

    to grade land before building on it

    выравниватьvyravnivatʹ

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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

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

  7. To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.

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

  9. (Canada, dated, intransitive)To pass from one school grade into the next.

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

More definitions
  • determine the grade of or assign a grade to
  • assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
  • level to the right gradient
  • assign a rank or rating to

Examples

612 sentences
  1. What grade is your sister in?

    В якому класі твоя сестра? — deniko

    ruВ каком классе твоя сестра? — Hellerick

    deIn welcher Klasse ist deine Schwester? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I got terrible grades this term.

    Я отримав жахливі оцінки у цьому семестрі. — brambury

  3. Tom is in the third grade.

    Том у третьому класі. — deniko

  4. Aren't you worried about your grades?

    Хіба ти не хвилюєшся про свої оцінки? — deniko

  5. I need to talk to you about your grades.

    Мені треба поговорити з тобою про твої оцінки. — deniko

    ruМне надо поговорить с тобой о твоих оценках. — sharptoothed

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to flatten a large surface:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to assign scores:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, d

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.

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Forms

grades, grading, graded, graded
Base formgrade · to grade
3rd person singulargrades
Present participlegrading
Past simplegraded
Past participlegraded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygrade
he, she, itgrades

Past simpleLesson

all personsgraded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave graded
he, she, ithas graded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill grade

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

94 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • third grade
  • got good grades
  • the third grade
  • good grades
  • good grades in
  • about his grades
  • grade school
  • a good grade
  • in third grade
  • eighth grade
  • in grade school
  • about your grades

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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