See Also: O grade(dictionary)
Low grade(finance)
grade(1)(dictionary)
grade(2)(dictionary)
Grade(medicine)
Low Grade(money)
Grade(money)
Standard Grade(dictionary)
High-grade(money)
Investment Grade(money)

grade(2) (iou)



grade verb. M16.
[from (the same root as) the noun.]
verb trans. Admit to a (specified) university degree. Only in M16.
verb trans. Lay out (a map etc.) by degrees of latitude and longitude. Only in E17.
verb trans. Arrange or categorize according to quality, merit, rank, intensity, etc. M17.
S. Bellow Neuroses might be graded by the inability to tolerate ambiguous situations.
verb trans. Reduce (the line of a road, railway, etc.) to levels or practicable gradients. E19.
verb trans. Erode the surface of so as to produce or alter a slope. M19.
verb intrans. Be of good or specified quality; reach a required or expected standard. L19.
grade up with US be equal or comparable to, measure up to.
verb trans. Blend with other things so as to affect the grade or quality. L19.
verb trans. Cross (cattle, etc.) with some better breed. Foll. by up: improve (stock) by so doing. L19.
F. Francis Turning in a good bull and grading up your stock.
verb trans. & intrans. (Cause to) shade or pass gradually (up, down) from one grade into another. L19.
V. Nabokov That silky shimmer above her temple grading into bright brown hair.
verb trans. Philology. In pass.: be altered by gradation or ablaut. L19.
verb trans. Give a grade to (a student, his or her work). M20.
American Poetry Review If anyone will tell me how to grade creative writing, I'll be grateful.
grader noun a person who or a machine which grades; spec. a wheeled machine for levelling the ground in road-making: M19.