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grading

/greyd/US // greɪd //UK // (ɡreɪd) //

评级,评语,评定

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
    • : a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc.
    • : a step or stage in a course or process.
    • : a single division of a school classified according to the age or progress of the pupils. In the U.S., public schools are commonly divided into twelve grades below college.
    • : the pupils in such a division.
    • : grades. elementary school: He first began teaching in the grades.
    • : a letter, number, or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work in a course, examination, or special assignment; mark.
    • : a classification or standard of food based on quality, size, etc.: grade A milk.
    • : inclination with the horizontal of a road, railroad, etc., usually expressed by stating the vertical rise or fall as a percentage of the horizontal distance; slope.
    • : Building Trades.Also called grade line. the level at which the ground intersects the foundation of a building.
    • : an animal resulting from a cross between a parent of ordinary stock and one of a pure breed.
    • : Mathematics. grad.
v.有主动词 verb
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    grad·ed, grad·ing.

    • : to arrange in a series of grades; class; sort: a machine that grades two thousand eggs per hour.
    • : to determine the grade of.
    • : to assign a grade to; mark: I graded forty tests last night.
    • : to cause to pass by degrees, as from one color or shade to another.
    • : to reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination: to grade a road.
    • : to cross with an animal of a pure or superior breed.
v.无主动词 verb
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    grad·ed, grad·ing.

    • : to incline; slant or slope: The road grades steeply for a mile.
    • : to be of a particular grade or quality.
    • : to pass by degrees from one color or shade to another; blend: See how the various colors grade into one another.
  1. 1
    • : grade up, to improve by breeding with purebreds.

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Examples

  • “They grew up 15 minutes from each other, were in the same grade, and shared similar friend circles,” the lawsuit says.

  • Because this kind of software is professional grade, it is expensive.

  • Fairfax County’s schools superintendent is recommending a return of students across grades over the next three months but is receiving a mixed reaction.

  • The departures will come midway through the school year and for the upper grades, weeks before their quarter ends in late January.

  • She was working for a bank in the village of Park Forest, and my brother and I were both in grade school when it happened.

  • Of course, when it comes to grading acting performance, age shouldn't be anything but a number.

  • Grading on that standard, two Palestinian voices at AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby is revolutionary.

  • The symbolism of a gun-control group grading members of Congress for the first time is a display of power in itself, Glaze says.

  • After less than a year, the faculty were furious because there were not enough TAs to do all their grading for them.

  • I've spent the morning grading papers and trying to figure out why the Orthodox Union (OU) wants to disturb my Yom Kippur.

  • If the wages are graded according to capacity, then the grading is done by the everlasting elective officials.

  • It was perched high above the sidewalk, for the street but a few years since was a gully, and the grading had deepened it.

  • It means tearing up those rails, grading a new line—and you'll pay for it.

  • The rocky nature of the site permitted little grading, but it added to the picturesqueness.

  • This absence of the collar is quite likely caused by its inter-grading with the Hutchins goose.