grade

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This grade is a sort of school, and a very strict one, in which the young men are taught habits of obedience, subordination, and devotion to duty.

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  1. noun A stage or degree in a process.
  2. noun A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity: a poor grade of lumber.
  3. noun An accepted level or standard.
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  • I REALLY struggled in school and to get by without failing a grade is also an accoomplishment. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
  • If no other grade was the same as Amy's grade, then Amy's grade was what percentile of the grades of the two classes combined?
  • If the grade is the goal, not the learning, all sorts of bad things might happen. —  Lean Blog
  • The only correlation between attendance and my grade was actually a negative correlation: the less I went, the better my grades got. —  Slashdot
  • So the grade is a little lower, probably because of the fewer Diggs, fewer Bloglines accounts, and the fewer De. licio.us bookmarks. —  InvestorBlogger
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class ·  quality ·  rank ·  type ·  degree ·  division ·  education ·  category ·  requirement ·  amount ·  school ·  development

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grade:   grades ·  grading ·  graded
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French, from Latin gradus; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. In Middle English representing by gree, q. v.; from French grade, a grade, degree (cf. Anglo-Saxon grad, a step), from Latin gradus, a step, pace, a step in a ladder or stair, a station, position, degree, from gradi, past participle gressus, step, walk, go. From Latin gradus come also English gradation, gradual, grail, etc., and from the orig. verb gradi also ult. English gradient, ingredient, grassant, grassation, aggress, congress, digress, egress, ingress, progress, regress, transgress, etc., grallatory, retrograde, plantigrade, etc.
  2. from grade, n.
 

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