grade

1. n. 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. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. v. t. To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc. Source: opted

6. v. t. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road. Source: opted

7. v. t. To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of. Source: opted

8. n. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating. Source: opted

9. n. a body of students who are taught together Source: wordnet

10. n. a relative position or degree of value in a graded group Source: wordnet

11. n. the gradient of a slope or road or other surface Source: wordnet

12. n. one-hundredth of a right angle Source: wordnet

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