Definitions for the word "grade" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 a certain degree in rank, merit, proficiency, etc. B class of persons or things of the same grade. 2 mark indicating the quality of a student''s work. 3 us class in school. 4 gradient, slope. v. (-ding) 1 arrange in grades. 2 (foll. By up, down, off, into, etc.) Pass gradually between grades, or into a grade. 3 give a grade to (a student). 4 reduce (a road etc.) To easy gradients. [latin gradus step]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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