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grade is a noun and verb meaning "a body of students who are taught together". It carries 13 recorded senses.
“lumber of the highest grade”
one-hundredth of a right angle
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
“she made good marks in algebra”
“grade A milk”
“what was your score on your homework?”
the height of the ground on which something stands
“the base of the tower was below grade”
a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
assign a rank or rating to
“how would you rank these students?”
“The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide”
determine the grade of or assign a grade to
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grade come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.