grade

1. Grade
   (In a railroad or highway) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
2. Grade
   (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.
3. Grade
   To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
4. Grade
   (Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
5. Grade
   To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

1. (n) grade
   A step, degree, or rank in any series or order; relative position or standing as regards quantity, quality, office, etc.
2. (n) grade
   In a road or railroad, the degree of inclination from the horizontal; also, a part of such a road inclined from the horizontal. It is expressed in degrees, in feet per mile, or as a foot in a certain distance. In Great Britain the steepest grade allowed by law on a railway is 1 foot in 70 feet— that is, an ascent or a descent of 1 foot in 70 feet of distance. Also gradient.
3. (n) grade
   In zoölogical classification, any group or series of animals, with reference to their earlier or later branching off from the stem or stock from which they are presumed to have evolved.
4. (n) grade
   An animal, particularly a cow or bull or a sheep, resulting from a cross between a parent of pure blood and one that is not pure-bred: as, an Aldevney grade. [Also used as an adjective.]
5. grade
   To sort out or arrange in order according to size, quality, rank, degree of advancement, etc.: as, to grade fruit, wheat, or sugar; to grade the children of a school.
6. grade
   To reduce, as the line of a canal, road, or railway, to such levels or degrees of inclination as may make it suitable for being used.
7. grade
   To improve the breed of. as common stock, by crossing with animals of pure blood.
8. grade
   Same as graith.
9. (n) grade
   In trigonometry, in the centesimal system, the hundredth part of a right angle: also, the hundredth part of a quadrant.
10. (n) grade
    A small difference between the brightness of two stars: substantially the same as a step: a term used by observers of variable stars.
11. (n) grade
    In philol., one of the positions or forms assumed by a vowel or root in a series of phonetic changes caused primarily by change of stress and other factors, as the vowels in English sing, sang, sung, ride, rode, ridden, etc., Latin capio, cepi, -cipio, etc., Greek √λειπ, √λιπ, √λοιπ, leave, √τεμ, √ταμ, √τομ, cut, etc.
12. grade
    In physical geography, to develop by eroding or filling (degrading or aggrading) into an even slope on which an eroding and transporting agent (such as a stream) will not actively build up or wear down its course.
13. grade
    In philology to alter or be altered by gradation or ablaut.
14. grade
    To prove to be of a certain grade or quality.

1. (n) Grade
   grād a degree or step in rank or dignity: the degree of slope on a road as compared with the horizontal: a class of animals produced by crossing a common breed with one purer—also adj.: a group of animals branching off from a common stem
2. (v.i) Grade
   to effect gradation
3. (n) Grade
   the degree of slope on a road or railway: the difference in the height of the barometer between one place and another place at some distance: an incline
4. (n) Grade
   in the Roman Church, the portion of the mass between the epistle and the gospel, formerly always sung from the steps of the altar: the book containing such anthems—also Grail
5. (v.i) Grade
   to pass by grades or degrees: to pass through a university course and receive a degree
6. (n) Grade
   one admitted to a degree in a college, university, or society
7. (adjs) Grade
   ready, free

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