单词 | grade |
释义 | Word Frequency grade(ɡreɪd) noun 1. a position or degree in a scale, as of quality, rank, size, or progression small-grade eggs high-grade timber 2. a group of people or things of the same category 3. mainly US a military or other rank 4. a stage in a course of progression 5. a mark or rating indicating achievement or the worth of work done, as at school 6. US and Canadian a unit of pupils of similar age or ability taught together at school 7. US and Canadian a. a part of a railway, road, etc, that slopes upwards or downwards; inclination b. Also called: gradient a measure of such a slope, esp the ratio of the vertical distance between two points on the slope to the horizontal distance between them 8. a unit of angle equal to one hundredth of a right angle or 0.9 degree 9. stockbreeding a. an animal with one purebred parent and one of unknown or unimproved breeding b. (as modifier) a grade sheep Compare crossbred (sense 2), purebred (sense 2)10. linguistics one of the forms of the vowel in a morpheme when this vowel varies because of gradation 11. at grade 12. make the grade verb 13. (transitive) to arrange according to quality, rank, etc 14. (transitive) to determine the grade of or assign a grade to 15. (intransitive) to achieve or deserve a grade or rank 16. to change or blend (something) gradually; merge 17. (transitive) to level (ground, a road, etc) to a suitable gradient 18. (transitive) stockbreeding to cross (one animal) with another to produce a grade animal Word origin C16: from French, from Latin gradus step, from gradī to stepWord Frequency -gradecombining form in adjective indicating a kind or manner of movement or progression plantigrade retrograde Word origin via French from Latin -gradus, from gradus a step, from gradī to walk |
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