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grade

n.

An incline
hill, slope, inclined plane, gradient, slant, inclination, pitch, ascent, descent, obliquity, tangent, ramp, upgrade, acclivity, declivity, downgrade, climb, elevation, height; see also hill.
An embankment
fill, causeway, dike; see dam 1.
Rank or degree
class, category, classification; see degree 2.
A division of a school
class, standard, form, rank; see class 3.
*A hybrid
mixture, mongrel, ordinary specimen; see hybrid.

make the grade*

win, prosper, achieve; see succeed 1.

grade Synonyms

grade

v.

rate, give a grade to, assort; see rank 2.

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Another word for grade

noun

One of the units in a course, as on an ascending or descending scale:
degree, level, peg, point, rung, stage, step. (Informal) notch. See big
Degree of excellence:
caliber, class, quality. See be, value
A division of persons or things by quality, rank, or grade:
bracket, class, league, order, rank¹, tier. See group, value
Deviation from a particular direction:
cant¹, gradient, heel², inclination, incline, lean¹, list², rake², slant, slope, tilt, tip². See rise, straight

verb

To assign to a class or classes:
categorize, class, classify, distribute, group, pigeonhole, place, range, rank¹, rate¹. See group, value
To evaluate and assign a grade to:
mark, score. See value

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I don't know how you keep such a high grade average.
That jug is grade double A light.
When he returned to the main room, Harrigan had left to talk to a class of grade-school children, a job at which he excelled, much to the pleasure of the others who shunned playing Officer Friendly.
There would then have been less disturbance owing to the breath of the players and heat of the theatres or concert-rooms. It would be a great advantage to get this higher grade generally adopted.
The lower the grade the more elaborate and expensive is the machinery required to clean it, and consequently a spinner is willing to pay a certain amount extra for high grade cotton in order to save expenditure on preparatory machinery.

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