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Webster 1913 Edition


Grade

Grade

(grād)
,
Noun.
[F.
grade
, L.
gradus
step, pace, grade, from
gradi
to step, go. Cf.
Congress
,
Degree
,
Gradus
.]
1.
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing;
as,
grades
of military rank; crimes of every
grade
;
grades
of flour.
They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure,
teachers of every
grade
.
Buckle.
2.
In a railroad or highway
:
(a)
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; – usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance;
as, a heavy
grade
; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
(b)
A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
3.
(Stock Breeding)
The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.
At grade
,
on the same level; – said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing.
Down grade
,
a descent, as on a graded railroad.
Up grade
,
an ascent, as on a graded railroad.
Equating for grades
.
See under
Equate
.
Grade crossing
,
a crossing at grade.

Grade

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Graded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Grading
.]
1.
To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
2.
To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
3.
(Stock Breeding)
To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

Webster 1828 Edition


Grade

GRADE

,
Noun.
[L. gradus, a step. gradior, to step to go, rota. We observe further that the Latin gradior forms gressus, by a common change of d to s; Heb. to descend.]
1.
A degree or rank in order or dignity, civil,military or ecclesiastical.
While questions, periods, and grades and privileges are never once formally discussed.
2.
A step or degree in any ascending series; as crimes of every grade.
When we come to examine the intermediate grades.

Definition 2024


gradé

gradé

See also: grade, Grade, and grãde

French

Adjective

gradé m (feminine singular gradée, masculine plural gradés, feminine plural gradées)

  1. (military) NCO or officer (attributive)

Noun

gradé m (plural gradés, feminine gradée)

  1. (military) rank

Spanish

Verb

gradé

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of gradar.