Definitions for grades

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IPA: /greɪd/

Grades is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in grades (adegrs).

Definitions for grades

noun

1. a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity:
2. a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc.
3. a step or stage in a course or process.
4. a single division of a school classified according to the age or progress of the pupils. In the U.S., public schools are commonly divided into twelve grades below college.
5. the pupils in such a division.
6. grades, elementary school (usually preceded by the):
7. a letter, number, or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work in a course, examination, or special assignment; mark.
8. a classification or standard of food based on quality, size, etc.:
9. inclination with the horizontal of a road, railroad, etc., usually expressed by stating the vertical rise or fall as a percentage of the horizontal distance; slope.
10. Building Trades.. Also called grade line. the level at which the ground intersects the foundation of a building.
11. an animal resulting from a cross between a parent of ordinary stock and one of a pure breed.
12. Mathematics. grad2 .

Idioms

1. at grade, on the same level: (of a stream bed) so adjusted to conditions of slope and the volume and speed of water that no gain or loss of sediment takes place.
2. make the grade, to attain a specific goal; succeed:
3. up to grade, of the desired or required quality:

Verb phrases

1. grade up, to improve (a herd, flock, etc.) by breeding with purebreds.

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange in a series of grades; class; sort:
2. to determine the grade of.
3. to assign a grade to (a student's work); mark:
4. to cause to pass by degrees, as from one color or shade to another.
5. to reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination:
6. to cross (an ordinary or low-grade animal) with an animal of a pure or superior breed.

verb (used without object)

1. to incline; slant or slope:
2. to be of a particular grade or quality.
3. to pass by degrees from one color or shade to another; blend:

Origin of grades

1505-15; French: office Latin gradus step, stage, degree, derivative of gradī to go, step, walk

Examples for grades

Also, when I was in the 9th grade, a teacher enjoyed something I wrote, which I found interesting.

“By no means are we grade A professional consultants,” Goff said.

Craig-Lewis was an 11-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department, a position she had aspired to since grade school.

This grade I had to cross; and I was greatly afraid that I would meet some one.

And last year, 4th and 8th grade students showed the biggest math and reading gains in the country.

The Blossburgh grade is used almost entirely for blacksmithing.

He looked back once, just as he was turning into the grade road.

But after a while they noticed that the grade was upward and the going easier.

She stayed in school until 9th grade, when her father pulled her out.

Did any of you fellows happen to see a dead coyote up on the grade?