0 a level of quality, size, importance, etc.: --
UK Carla got a grade A in German.
Steve never studies, but he always gets good grades.
Bill has been on the same grade (= his job has been of the same level of importance, or he has had the same level of pay) for several years now.
There's some really high-grade (= high quality) musicianship on this recording.
He's suffering from some kind of low-grade (= slight) infection, which he can't seem to get rid of.
1 a school class or group of classes in which all the children are of a similar age or ability: --
Jackie is in the sixth grade.
2 a gradient : --
3 to separate people or things into different levels of quality, size, importance, etc.: --
4 a measure of the quality of a student’s performance, usually represented by the letters A (the best) through F (the worst): --
She always gets good grades.
5 a school class or group of classes in which all the children are of a similar age or ability: --
James is in the seventh grade this year.
Teacher-rated academic per formance in sixth grade was not predictive of discordant cases in any of the three trajectory classes.
Since the robot is only expected to have to negotiate small grades, it only incorporates suspension systems at the two lateral wheels.
The joke is lost on those for whom public schools are state schools, with not standards but grades.
Specifically, for the moderate declining group, we found evidence that grade retention aggravated classroom physical aggression, but only when it occurred prior to age 13.
At what rate do learners learn and retain new vocabulary from reading a graded reader?
At the first grade level, reading instruction does not follow the phonics method, nor does it entail systematic instruction in phonemic awareness.
Embracing the idea that representations may be graded opens up many interesting conceptual possibilities.
However, subscale values did not significantly differ according to country of qualification, clinical speciality, number of years worked in psychiatry, place of work, clinical grade.
