grade
/ɡɹeɪd/ verb B2- To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- To organize in grades. · a graded reader
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader. · to grade land before building on it
- 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.
- 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). · Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.
- To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
He/she/it grades · Past graded · Past participle graded · -ing form grading
Verb forms
- Base form
- grade
- He/she/it
- grades
- Past
- graded
- Past participle
- graded
- -ing form
- grading
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Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Condé; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.
Josie Pye never scrupled to ask questions; in this instance the rest of the class felt grateful to her; none of them would have dared to ask it of Miss Stacy, but all wanted to, for there had been alarming rumors running at large through the school for some time that Miss Stacy was not coming back the next year--that she had been offered a position in the grade school of her own home district and meant to accept.
Eat lunch away from your desk at least twice a week, and leave your grading at school on Fridays.
When they presented their project, the teacher gave them a perfect grade.
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