Definition of grade in English:

grade

noun ɡreɪdɡreɪd

1A particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, or value.
（等级、质量、熟练程度、强度或数值上的）级别
sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades
从级别上来说，海盐通常有粗盐和细盐之分。
in combination high-grade steel
Example sentencesExamples
- Tensile fabric comes in different structural grades and colors.
- I'll have to use the finest grade of wet sandpaper.
- Use the finest grade of lime available at a reasonable price when surface applications are made.
- The one medicine that in every grade of society was valued above all others was Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
- Just be sure to use the gardening-grade perlite rocks and not the finer grade masonry-quality powder.
- A beeper and colored lights indicate the blade's position relative to the desired grade.
- There are four grades at this age level, A, B, C, D and the teams and supporters who make it to the finals turn it into a noisy wonderful occasion.
- And not just the fruit, for they used the flowers in botanical medicines as well as in making a red dye, and the bark of the plant was helpful in tanning the finest grades of leather.
- We stand ready to advise you on the period and particular hotels that will give best value for a specified grade of accommodation.
- But the part of the process I loved most was the hand polishing with increasingly fine grades of sand paper done under running water.
- Usually the finer grades are used in the rubbing process.
- Use steel wool or a fine grade of sandpaper to smooth out the affected area and an inch or two of the surrounding floor.
- The array of choices is dizzying, from different types of cows and grades of milk quality to the ability to breed hybrid vegetables.
- All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade.
Synonyms
category, class, classification, grouping, group, set, section, bracket, division, type, brand
1. 1.1 A level in a salary or employment structure.
  （薪水或就业结构中的）等级
  clerical and secretarial grades
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although most respondents were white collar staff, they covered a wide range of grades from office support staff to permanent secretary.
  We desperately need a culture that values teamwork at all grades in the profession.
  In the same year the Ministry lost 39 employees from the lower grades, including clerks, interpreters and recorders.
  The second grade would command the rank of major or lieutenant colonel.
  It said managers had been ranked into three grades, with the bottom 15 per cent losing their jobs.
  I think in order to build confidence and to ensure that black women are moving through ranks and grades, we need to have a positive action programme that analyses their particular needs.
  A few years later he became a pilot and rose through the ranks to management grade by the time he was 30.
  In central and local government, for example, the majority of employees in the lowest grades are women.
  The strikers want the abolition of salary anomalies between staff employed on different grades at universities.
  The following are the ranks and corresponding pay grades within the Army, from lowest to highest.
  Under the council's offer, many employees on middle salary grades will only receive lump-sum payments with no cost-of-living increase.
  The dispute centres on the implementation of a 35-hour week which would bring guards in line with most other grades of staff employed by the company.
  Collier outlined that equal pay within salary grades is enforced by the University.
  The automaker was accused of unfair bias in giving older, white male employees lower grades, raises and rates of promotion than young women and minorities.
  She also said employees on the same grade in different regions got paid different salaries for the same work, or the same salary for different hours.
  Following half a day of action in October and the threat of more strikes this week, management decided to reopen negotiations with a timetable to produce a system of pay grades by the end of February.
  The salary grades were framed according to different sports and the importance of each athlete to their team.
  We have to have a structure and grades, because of our size and we have to work within those.
  For example, there may be 10 salary grades (A to J) separated by increments of $1,000.
  The majority of employees are the lower clerical grades, i.e. Clerical Officers, Executive Officers and Higher Executive Officers.
  Synonyms
  rank, level, echelon, standing, station, position, placing, class, status, order
  stage, step, rung, rung on the ladder, notch, stratum, tier
  degree of proficiency, degree of quality, degree of merit
2. 1.2British A level of importance allocated to a listed building.
  〈英〉（对列入名单的建筑物按重要性进行的）分级
  as modifier a Grade I listed building
  一级建筑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The 18th century grade two listed building has stood empty for over a year, and twice the company's plans have been rejected, and twice they have withdrawn applications.
  They include the demolition of the grade II listed building and its conversion to a dental surgery with the necessary alterations.
  The grade two listed main hospital building has been designated for use for health care, which could see a doctors surgery or small hospital created inside.
  Inside the grade - 2 listed church, opened in 1871, demonstrations of various crafts will be taking place.
  The grade 1 listed Gothic mansion which will be home to Hirst's collection is believed to have been an inspiration for the Houses of Parliament.
  A planning application to refurbish and enlarge the grade two listed building was being submitted today in a bid to attract ‘big name’ stores to the town centre.
  I walked further down the corridor of our workplace that was a grade two listed building.
  Known as Ye Olde Whitechapel in the North, the grade II listed building, dates back to 1820 and is in urgent need of repair.
  Plans for the grade II-listed building and its surrounds include hotels, a theatre, cinema and flats.
  The seventeenth century grade II listed building was converted into a pub in the 1970s and the pub closed at the end of last year.
  The grade II * listed building has lain derelict since it was sold off by the county council in the late 1980s.
  Windows have been smashed and the grade II listed building has been covered in graffiti.
  The town hall is a grade II-listed building and English Heritage had voiced its concern about a previous plan, which would demolish the interior of the building.
  The Orangery, situated within the grade two-listed coach house, can cater for up to 16 delegates.
  Opponents said more traffic would be generated and that the car park would destroy the look of the grade II Listed hospital building.
  Now, more than 100 years after its troubled start, the grade II listed structure is to be brought back to its former glory.
  A project costing £498,000 to restore the grade two listed railway station and repair the original cast iron canopies on the station roof was under way.
  Nine years ago a newly-formed trust made a bid to take over the grade II listed building and turn it into a museum and writing centre.
  The grade II listed building has been restored to its former glory as part of a £180,000 project.
  Plans are afoot to hold nights of music and theatre in the grade one listed building.
3. 1.3 (in historical linguistics) a relative position in a series of forms involving ablaut.
  （历史语言学）元音变换的相应位置
4. 1.4Zoology A group of animals at a similar evolutionary level.
  〔动〕（由一组处于相似进化程度的动物形成的）级
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thecodontia therefore is an evolutionary grade of animals, rather than a clade.
  They argued that previous classifications failed to examine real lineages and tended to be based more on evolutionary grades.
  However, keep in mind that these are not clear evolutionary groups and probably represent a grade of organisms out of which the fern lineage emerged.
  The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates.
  Pelycosaur, therapsid, and mammal represent three evolutionary grades in a single progressive evolutionary axis.
2North American A mark indicating the quality of a student's work.
〈主北美〉（表明学生成绩的）分数
I got good grades last semester
上学期我得了高分。
Example sentencesExamples
- The students who take the course during their initial semester are making higher grades cumulatively.
- School records were used to obtain data on student grades and standardized test scores.
- Students whose grades fell below 3.0 in the previous school year attend Summer Academy in their home city, rather than the Summer Institute.
- It is kind of like paying teachers more when their students get higher grades.
- If the awards were based instead on, say, high-school grades, many students would respond by choosing easy courses where an A is guaranteed.
- And it would also revise its code of practice on how students' grades related to the marks they score in their exams.
- Teachers who hand out misleading grades thereby allow some students, already let down by a school system that has failed to prepare them adequately, to be blindsided.
- He found that students would achieve similar grades, whether or not they liked or enjoyed their teachers.
- Students with lower grades can still get into Southern if they score high enough on college-aptitude tests.
- He is also concerned that they have led to significant grade inflation because they are closely tied to the grades that students expect to receive.
- Teachers often tell students their grades out loud, so that each person knows what grade the others received.
- Minimum matriculation requirements are at least two pass grades and university courses for which there is not strong demand might accept students with these grades.
- Students compete for grades, they compete for awards, they compete for a place on the team.
- Students' grades are based primarily on teacher-designed or local tests, so the stakes for students are unclear.
- The students who received passing grades earned them.
- Under the admissions policy, 90 percent of students are accepted by grades and test scores alone.
- Most commonly, he says, students complain about grades and faculty grading practices.
- Brian noticed that students' grades were higher than those on previous unit quizzes.
- That is, the higher the students' grades in high school, the more likely they would persist to meet their educational goals in college.
- Yet it is mandatory that I give this student a grade; moreover, she herself wants an evaluation of her performance.
Synonyms
mark, score, grading, assessment, evaluation, appraisal
1. 2.1 (with specifying ordinal number) those pupils in a school or school system who are grouped by age or ability for teaching at a particular level for a year.
  〈北美〉（按学生年龄或受教能力划分的）年级
  she teaches first grade
  她教一年级。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The average fifth grader read at a second grade level.
  It gives home computers to students in the 3rd grade and up.
  Students at all grade levels benefited from remedial summer school, but students in the earliest grades and in secondary school may benefit most.
  Students in the upper grades do an internship two afternoons every week.
  Yuntardi was confused when his daughter Sekar, a first grade elementary pupil, asked him to register her in a school tennis course.
  Only 7 percent of black children in the eighth grade read at a level of proficiency.
  In the ninth grade, 81 percent of females and males were participating in physical education.
  It is estimated that by the first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders, the majority of which have no known cause.
  This Act proposes that every student in grades 3 through 8 will be proficient in reading and math.
  After a while, it seemed obvious that he didn't have the same skill, he was paired with Dale for a lab in the 7th grade and history was made.
  Did I fail to mention that I failed the part where we had to identify animals in first grade?
  Students in higher grades scored better than students in lower grades.
  It is at the second grade reading level that you should begin monitor and track the areas of reading fluency and see a steady progress in the words per minute your child can read and comprehend.
  Beautiful weavings can be created by students in grades 3-6 with simple cardboard looms.
  Every year, the students in all grades of my elementary school do a papier-mache project.
  Synonyms
  class, form, study group, school group, set, stream, band
  year
2. 2.2British An examination, especially in music.
  〈英〉（尤指音乐的）考试
  I took grade five and got a distinction
  我参加了五级的考试并得了优良。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After seeing one of their public performances, a woman approached Mark and Angela in the supermarket about her 11-year-old daughter Sarah at grade one on the saxophone.
  She received an A for her seventh grade (the second highest level) music exams.
  After her marriage, she appeared for the senior grade music examination in 1991 and passed it with distinction.
3North American A gradient or slope.
〈主北美〉梯度；斜坡
just over the crest of a long seven per cent grade
刚越过了一个长长的0.07度斜坡的山顶。
Example sentencesExamples
- I also noticed that the hill that the car rolled up was at a lower grade than the hill that the starting line was painted on.
- Clark points out that some applications, such as parking lots, have so many different grades and slopes that the use of a trimmer becomes almost impossible.
- While you're outside, check that the grade around the house slopes away from it.
- Myrna and David visited a hillside azalea garden in a nearby park to walk the trails and get a feel for the different grades of slope.
- That would be like loading up your car and driving it up in the mountains at a 6% grade all day every day.
- Road construction has changed the hill grade from 11.5 per cent to eight
Synonyms
slope, gradient, incline, acclivity, declivity, tilt, angle
hill, rise, bank, ramp
4usually as modifier A variety of cattle produced by crossing with a superior breed.
与纯种杂交改良的牛
grade stock
改良的家畜。
Example sentencesExamples
- Research proved that U to E grade females give poor fertility and are poor milkers, two very important traits required for breeding.
- Indeed farmers with U grade stock have already reached the €2.94 / kg mark.
- Slightly lower grade stock, still of an acceptable quality, was then imported at a cheaper price from other parts of the world.
- Trade was stronger at the top for R4L grade heifers with nine factories paying over 93c/lb.
- Farmers should consider co-operating with friends and neighbours when selling R and U grade cows and thus add to their selling power.
- Farmers must first secure a reasonable price for the better quality cattle, which is the mainstay of specialist feeders, and then work this price back for the lower grade cattle.
- Of the 15 factories with the lowest percentage of R grade bullocks over a three month period, 12 were Munster-based.

verb ɡreɪdɡreɪd

[with object]

1Arrange in or allocate to grades; classify or sort.
按照级别安排或分配；分类
the timber is graded according to its thickness
它们是按厚度分类的。
Example sentencesExamples
- At the moment, 99.99% of the coffee beans grown in the area are mixed together, and the blemish-free ones are graded by size and shape.
- The items and places of interest are graded with an asterisk rating (from zero to three) and much helpful information is given to tourists.
- Under the king was a carefully graded hierarchy of officials, ranging from the governors of provinces down through local mayors and tax collectors.
- Voter education should extend to rating or grading the performance of an elected representative.
- Replies to the 87 questions are graded in three categories - agree, disagree and undecided.
- It's a gloomy prediction but what else are parents like us supposed to think when universities are graded according to their intake from the state sector and we have thrown in our lot with an independent school?
- They will become even more responsible if development in their constituencies is formally graded, ranked in order of merit and made public.
- If other teachers have been placed in the promised grade it simply means that even those on the Copperbelt will eventually be graded accordingly.
- Applications are graded in date order; the earlier you apply the better your chance of being rewarded.
- The survey broke each town into sites and graded each site accordingly.
- Under the plans, sites used by travellers could be graded according to how much impact they have on the local community.
- And Malmesbury Hospital was graded green in both categories, one of 81 hospitals to achieve that distinction.
- There are 16 classes of vehicle, graded by engine size and body-type.
- Performances are graded to compensate for size or population profile.
- Premises applying for a licence will face a one-off fee followed by an annual charge which will be graded according to the size and location of the bar or pub.
- In such circumstances, there being no threat to life or injury, the police response was graded accordingly.
- With the ultimate in timing equipment being installed drivers will be graded into four categories and awarded platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals once a year.
- Periodically, the oysters are graded for size and then put into bags of about 200, to be hardened.
- He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
- He said the mining centre would enable miners to add value to their stones by preparing knocking, sorting and grading their gemstones before selling them.
Synonyms
classify, class, categorize, bracket, sort, group, order, arrange, type, pigeonhole, brand, size
rank, evaluate, rate, value, range, graduate, calibrate
2North American Give a mark to (a student or a piece of work).
〈主北美〉（给学生或作业）打分
Example sentencesExamples
- Of course there were differences because I graded the students in the university class, but not in the community class.
- Any teacher completing these books will never again be able to grade student work without questioning how and why that grading is taking place.
- The students are then graded on how well they adapt various stylistic aspects of the artist's work into their own.
- I'm not entirely comfortable with doing so, in part because I suspect much of the advice is particular to my class and how I grade exams.
- Obviously it's insane to spend more than fifteen minutes per paper/exam when grading a class of 100: just do the math!
- This paper also serves as a substantial writing component in which students are graded for both grammar and content.
- Linus worked 40 hours a week in the classroom and in the lab, and spent time preparing lessons and grading students papers in addition to his regular studies.
- A lecture on tips for effective presentations is given early in the curriculum and students are graded on presentation skills throughout the program.
- More reasonably, I'd grade the smaller class in four days, and the larger class in six days.
- Have the students divide the tasks up among themselves, but grade each student based on the work of the whole group.
- Each week, the teachers will grade the students - one will receive an A-grade making them top of the class.
- During the group lesson, each student was graded by both their peers and me on their success in reaching their musical goal for that group lesson.
- We should grade students on effort, not ability.
- Berkeley students aren't getting written homework assignments because teachers are refusing to grade work on their own time after two years with no pay raise.
- I require this evaluation form to be attached to the back of their project before I will grade their work.
- Students are graded on each discussion based upon their ability to find information on topics and their ability to support both sides of the argument in the paper that they write.
- The division of the A-level into AS and A2 stages has also increased the marking workload, as students are graded in both the first and second years of the course.
- The government is also looking into replacing the Advanced Level exam with a system which would grade students on their work during the school year as well as in a sit-down exam.
- To complete the course, the students are graded in a situational and field training exercise on all the above skills to determine whether they will qualify and graduate.
- He still has to be fair in grading his students, and he can lose his job if he doesn't do that.
Synonyms
assess, mark, score, judge, evaluate, appraise
3no object Pass gradually from one level, especially a shade of colour, into another.
（尤指色彩）从一个等级逐渐进入另一个等级
the sky graded from blue at the top of the shot to white on the horizon
天空从镜头顶端的蓝色渐渐变成地平线上的白色。
Example sentencesExamples
- The anterior is sloping, broad, without wings or ear, the rear wing in contrast gradually grading into the posterior margin.
- Thus, deposition graded gradually from anoxic environments below the storm wave base to oxic environments above the storm wave base.
- If the hypotheses of this research are correct, then equivalencies in a judoist's throwing side preference will emerge as he or she grades to the elite level.
- In the fossil record, Neanderthals don't grade smoothly into Homo sapiens.
Synonyms
pass, shade, change, merge, blend, transmute, turn
4Reduce (a road) to an easy gradient.
（将路面）坡度减缓
Example sentencesExamples
- This high desert area is dry in the summer when the Road Runners spend their time grading and graveling the roads.
- LSO series inclinometers are suitable for use in paving, grading, bridge leveling, and other applications.
- However, the city council has already started grading the roads to be tarred soon under the local government-financed road rehabilitation programme.
- The ability to shift the blade right and left comes in handy for slope and ditch work and for grading roads and parking lots.
- Our first project after we graded the road was to dig a 10-acre-foot pond.
- The volunteers at the reserve regularly grade the road and make sure that it is accessible.
- He said a grader from the Zambia National Service had been acquired to grade the roads which had not been serviced for a long time.
- Hardware on the excavation equipment then uses that elevation map to control the blade height automatically in order to grade the site properly.
- Lodge explains that sonic sensors make grading a road much easier than with stakes.
- The district has had to grade its roads in its quest to open up isolated villages to its administrative centre, Munyumbwe.
- He said his ministry would grade all feeder roads in readiness for the marketing season.
- He told the ministries in charge of roads not to grade roads without consulting members of Parliament.
- I have approached officials several times and a year ago they attempted to grade the road - the grader got stuck and they left the job incomplete.
- There are well-laid, carefully graded paths for walking and for cycling, and some impressive looking recreation facilities.
- Also, they must excavate to remove foundations and basements, and they must grade the site at the completion of the demolition job.
- Norman got work as a roadman, clearing drains, grading roads and laying metal.
5Cross (livestock) with a superior breed.
（家畜）与优良品种杂交
Example sentencesExamples
- The low percentage of cattle grading choice is most likely explained by the aggressive implant program utilized in this study.

Phrases

at grade

On the same level.
〈北美〉在同一水平面上
the crossing at grade of two streets
两条街的平面交叉路口。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sharp said she decided to put the new plan forward because it became obvious Vancouver City council will not approve a light rail system built at grade through the city.
- Planning requirements mean tall residential buildings have setbacks and open areas at grade, making the streetscape discontinuous and usually unpleasant.
- This track crossed it at a diamond, one of the last such crossings at grade with streetcars.
- The total distance of the metro line will be 36.50 km of which 29.15 km will be elevated, 0.65 km at grade and 6.70 km will be underground.

make the grade

informal Succeed; reach the desired standard.
〈非正式〉成功；达到理想标准
Example sentencesExamples
- She quickly made the grade for England and reached the quarter-finals of the world championships in Thailand last year.
- His story is typical of many Asian doctors working in Scotland but, until now, such complaints have been dismissed by many as excuses for not making the grade.
- It's our politicians' image and style that aren't making the grade in the new post modern politics.
- Now that it's clear how you deserve to be treated, what do you do if you decide a friendship isn't making the grade?
- Only 600 establishments have made the grade and only those who surpass the high entry standards are eligible to compete for the national awards.
- Also, making the grade, education in America, our special report tonight on where the best and worst teachers in the country end up working and why.
- The Indians came through the tough Olympic qualifying competitions before making the grade.
- We look at why America's schools aren't making the grade.
- League tables released by the government today show that more pupils than ever scored five or more A - C grade GCSEs last year, with 51.5 per cent making the grade.
- It is, of course, a big step up from playing regularly for the national Under-21 side to making the grade at full international level.
Synonyms
come up to standard, come up to scratch, qualify, pass, pass muster, measure up, measure up to expectation

Origin

Early 16th century: from French, or from Latin gradus 'step'. Originally used as a unit of measurement of angles (a degree of arc), the term later referred to degrees of merit or quality.

A grade is literally a step from Latin gradus ‘step’, and was originally used in English as a unit of measurement, a use largely replaced by degree, from the same source. The word is also found in graduate (Late Middle English) ‘take a degree’, gradient (mid 19th century), gradual (Late Middle English) ‘done by degrees’, and degrade (Late Middle English). The expression to make the grade is an American expression from the early 20th century.

Rhymes

abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade

Definition of grade in US English:

grade

nounɡrādɡreɪd

1A particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, intensity, or value.
（等级、质量、熟练程度、强度或数值上的）级别
sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades
从级别上来说，海盐通常有粗盐和细盐之分。
grade AA butter
Example sentencesExamples
- Use the finest grade of lime available at a reasonable price when surface applications are made.
- Tensile fabric comes in different structural grades and colors.
- Just be sure to use the gardening-grade perlite rocks and not the finer grade masonry-quality powder.
- The one medicine that in every grade of society was valued above all others was Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
- All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade.
- Use steel wool or a fine grade of sandpaper to smooth out the affected area and an inch or two of the surrounding floor.
- The array of choices is dizzying, from different types of cows and grades of milk quality to the ability to breed hybrid vegetables.
- A beeper and colored lights indicate the blade's position relative to the desired grade.
- We stand ready to advise you on the period and particular hotels that will give best value for a specified grade of accommodation.
- And not just the fruit, for they used the flowers in botanical medicines as well as in making a red dye, and the bark of the plant was helpful in tanning the finest grades of leather.
- But the part of the process I loved most was the hand polishing with increasingly fine grades of sand paper done under running water.
- There are four grades at this age level, A, B, C, D and the teams and supporters who make it to the finals turn it into a noisy wonderful occasion.
- Usually the finer grades are used in the rubbing process.
- I'll have to use the finest grade of wet sandpaper.
Synonyms
rank, level, echelon, standing, station, position, placing, class, status, order
category, class, classification, grouping, group, set, section, bracket, division, type, brand
1. 1.1 A level in a salary or employment structure.
  （薪水或就业结构中的）等级
  Example sentencesExamples
  The following are the ranks and corresponding pay grades within the Army, from lowest to highest.
  The automaker was accused of unfair bias in giving older, white male employees lower grades, raises and rates of promotion than young women and minorities.
  It said managers had been ranked into three grades, with the bottom 15 per cent losing their jobs.
  Although most respondents were white collar staff, they covered a wide range of grades from office support staff to permanent secretary.
  We desperately need a culture that values teamwork at all grades in the profession.
  For example, there may be 10 salary grades (A to J) separated by increments of $1,000.
  The strikers want the abolition of salary anomalies between staff employed on different grades at universities.
  The dispute centres on the implementation of a 35-hour week which would bring guards in line with most other grades of staff employed by the company.
  The majority of employees are the lower clerical grades, i.e. Clerical Officers, Executive Officers and Higher Executive Officers.
  In central and local government, for example, the majority of employees in the lowest grades are women.
  She also said employees on the same grade in different regions got paid different salaries for the same work, or the same salary for different hours.
  Collier outlined that equal pay within salary grades is enforced by the University.
  Following half a day of action in October and the threat of more strikes this week, management decided to reopen negotiations with a timetable to produce a system of pay grades by the end of February.
  I think in order to build confidence and to ensure that black women are moving through ranks and grades, we need to have a positive action programme that analyses their particular needs.
  In the same year the Ministry lost 39 employees from the lower grades, including clerks, interpreters and recorders.
  A few years later he became a pilot and rose through the ranks to management grade by the time he was 30.
  We have to have a structure and grades, because of our size and we have to work within those.
  Under the council's offer, many employees on middle salary grades will only receive lump-sum payments with no cost-of-living increase.
  The salary grades were framed according to different sports and the importance of each athlete to their team.
  The second grade would command the rank of major or lieutenant colonel.
  Synonyms
  category, class, classification, grouping, group, set, section, bracket, division, type, brand
  rank, level, echelon, standing, station, position, placing, class, status, order
2. 1.2 (in historical linguistics) one in a series of related root forms exhibiting ablaut.
  （历史语言学）元音变换的相应位置
3. 1.3Zoology A group of animals at a similar evolutionary level.
  〔动〕（由一组处于相似进化程度的动物形成的）级
  Example sentencesExamples
  Pelycosaur, therapsid, and mammal represent three evolutionary grades in a single progressive evolutionary axis.
  They argued that previous classifications failed to examine real lineages and tended to be based more on evolutionary grades.
  The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates.
  Thecodontia therefore is an evolutionary grade of animals, rather than a clade.
  However, keep in mind that these are not clear evolutionary groups and probably represent a grade of organisms out of which the fern lineage emerged.
2North American A mark indicating the quality of a student's work.
〈主北美〉（表明学生成绩的）分数
I got good grades last semester
上学期我得了高分。
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet it is mandatory that I give this student a grade; moreover, she herself wants an evaluation of her performance.
- Students whose grades fell below 3.0 in the previous school year attend Summer Academy in their home city, rather than the Summer Institute.
- Students with lower grades can still get into Southern if they score high enough on college-aptitude tests.
- And it would also revise its code of practice on how students' grades related to the marks they score in their exams.
- Teachers who hand out misleading grades thereby allow some students, already let down by a school system that has failed to prepare them adequately, to be blindsided.
- If the awards were based instead on, say, high-school grades, many students would respond by choosing easy courses where an A is guaranteed.
- Minimum matriculation requirements are at least two pass grades and university courses for which there is not strong demand might accept students with these grades.
- Students compete for grades, they compete for awards, they compete for a place on the team.
- The students who received passing grades earned them.
- School records were used to obtain data on student grades and standardized test scores.
- It is kind of like paying teachers more when their students get higher grades.
- He is also concerned that they have led to significant grade inflation because they are closely tied to the grades that students expect to receive.
- Brian noticed that students' grades were higher than those on previous unit quizzes.
- That is, the higher the students' grades in high school, the more likely they would persist to meet their educational goals in college.
- Under the admissions policy, 90 percent of students are accepted by grades and test scores alone.
- Teachers often tell students their grades out loud, so that each person knows what grade the others received.
- Students' grades are based primarily on teacher-designed or local tests, so the stakes for students are unclear.
- Most commonly, he says, students complain about grades and faculty grading practices.
- He found that students would achieve similar grades, whether or not they liked or enjoyed their teachers.
- The students who take the course during their initial semester are making higher grades cumulatively.
Synonyms
mark, score, grading, assessment, evaluation, appraisal
1. 2.1 (with specifying ordinal number) those students in a school or school system who are grouped by age or ability for teaching at a particular level for a year.
  〈北美〉（按学生年龄或受教能力划分的）年级
  she teaches first grade
  她教一年级。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It gives home computers to students in the 3rd grade and up.
  After a while, it seemed obvious that he didn't have the same skill, he was paired with Dale for a lab in the 7th grade and history was made.
  Yuntardi was confused when his daughter Sekar, a first grade elementary pupil, asked him to register her in a school tennis course.
  It is estimated that by the first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders, the majority of which have no known cause.
  In the ninth grade, 81 percent of females and males were participating in physical education.
  Only 7 percent of black children in the eighth grade read at a level of proficiency.
  It is at the second grade reading level that you should begin monitor and track the areas of reading fluency and see a steady progress in the words per minute your child can read and comprehend.
  The average fifth grader read at a second grade level.
  Students in the upper grades do an internship two afternoons every week.
  This Act proposes that every student in grades 3 through 8 will be proficient in reading and math.
  Students in higher grades scored better than students in lower grades.
  Did I fail to mention that I failed the part where we had to identify animals in first grade?
  Beautiful weavings can be created by students in grades 3-6 with simple cardboard looms.
  Every year, the students in all grades of my elementary school do a papier-mache project.
  Students at all grade levels benefited from remedial summer school, but students in the earliest grades and in secondary school may benefit most.
  Synonyms
  class, form, study group, school group, set, stream, band
2. 2.2British An examination, especially in music.
  〈英〉（尤指音乐的）考试
  I took grade five and got a distinction
  我参加了五级的考试并得了优良。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She received an A for her seventh grade (the second highest level) music exams.
  After her marriage, she appeared for the senior grade music examination in 1991 and passed it with distinction.
  After seeing one of their public performances, a woman approached Mark and Angela in the supermarket about her 11-year-old daughter Sarah at grade one on the saxophone.
3North American A gradient or slope.
〈主北美〉梯度；斜坡
just over the crest of a long seven percent grade
刚越过了一个长长的0.07度斜坡的山顶。
Example sentencesExamples
- I also noticed that the hill that the car rolled up was at a lower grade than the hill that the starting line was painted on.
- Myrna and David visited a hillside azalea garden in a nearby park to walk the trails and get a feel for the different grades of slope.
- Clark points out that some applications, such as parking lots, have so many different grades and slopes that the use of a trimmer becomes almost impossible.
- Road construction has changed the hill grade from 11.5 per cent to eight
- While you're outside, check that the grade around the house slopes away from it.
- That would be like loading up your car and driving it up in the mountains at a 6% grade all day every day.
Synonyms
slope, gradient, incline, acclivity, declivity, tilt, angle
4usually as modifier A variety of cattle produced by crossing with a superior breed.
与纯种杂交改良的牛
grade stock
改良的家畜。
Example sentencesExamples
- Farmers must first secure a reasonable price for the better quality cattle, which is the mainstay of specialist feeders, and then work this price back for the lower grade cattle.
- Indeed farmers with U grade stock have already reached the €2.94 / kg mark.
- Slightly lower grade stock, still of an acceptable quality, was then imported at a cheaper price from other parts of the world.
- Farmers should consider co-operating with friends and neighbours when selling R and U grade cows and thus add to their selling power.
- Of the 15 factories with the lowest percentage of R grade bullocks over a three month period, 12 were Munster-based.
- Trade was stronger at the top for R4L grade heifers with nine factories paying over 93c/lb.
- Research proved that U to E grade females give poor fertility and are poor milkers, two very important traits required for breeding.

verbɡrādɡreɪd

[with object]

1Arrange in or allocate to grades; class or sort.
按照级别安排或分配；分类
they are graded according to thickness
它们是按厚度分类的。
carefully graded exercises
仔细分类的练习。
Example sentencesExamples
- Under the plans, sites used by travellers could be graded according to how much impact they have on the local community.
- It's a gloomy prediction but what else are parents like us supposed to think when universities are graded according to their intake from the state sector and we have thrown in our lot with an independent school?
- In such circumstances, there being no threat to life or injury, the police response was graded accordingly.
- There are 16 classes of vehicle, graded by engine size and body-type.
- The items and places of interest are graded with an asterisk rating (from zero to three) and much helpful information is given to tourists.
- The survey broke each town into sites and graded each site accordingly.
- Under the king was a carefully graded hierarchy of officials, ranging from the governors of provinces down through local mayors and tax collectors.
- Replies to the 87 questions are graded in three categories - agree, disagree and undecided.
- Performances are graded to compensate for size or population profile.
- Applications are graded in date order; the earlier you apply the better your chance of being rewarded.
- Voter education should extend to rating or grading the performance of an elected representative.
- With the ultimate in timing equipment being installed drivers will be graded into four categories and awarded platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals once a year.
- At the moment, 99.99% of the coffee beans grown in the area are mixed together, and the blemish-free ones are graded by size and shape.
- Periodically, the oysters are graded for size and then put into bags of about 200, to be hardened.
- And Malmesbury Hospital was graded green in both categories, one of 81 hospitals to achieve that distinction.
- If other teachers have been placed in the promised grade it simply means that even those on the Copperbelt will eventually be graded accordingly.
- They will become even more responsible if development in their constituencies is formally graded, ranked in order of merit and made public.
- Premises applying for a licence will face a one-off fee followed by an annual charge which will be graded according to the size and location of the bar or pub.
- He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
- He said the mining centre would enable miners to add value to their stones by preparing knocking, sorting and grading their gemstones before selling them.
Synonyms
classify, class, categorize, bracket, sort, group, order, arrange, type, pigeonhole, brand, size
2North American Give a mark to (a student or a piece of work).
〈主北美〉（给学生或作业）打分
Example sentencesExamples
- Have the students divide the tasks up among themselves, but grade each student based on the work of the whole group.
- The students are then graded on how well they adapt various stylistic aspects of the artist's work into their own.
- Of course there were differences because I graded the students in the university class, but not in the community class.
- Linus worked 40 hours a week in the classroom and in the lab, and spent time preparing lessons and grading students papers in addition to his regular studies.
- I'm not entirely comfortable with doing so, in part because I suspect much of the advice is particular to my class and how I grade exams.
- Students are graded on each discussion based upon their ability to find information on topics and their ability to support both sides of the argument in the paper that they write.
- To complete the course, the students are graded in a situational and field training exercise on all the above skills to determine whether they will qualify and graduate.
- Obviously it's insane to spend more than fifteen minutes per paper/exam when grading a class of 100: just do the math!
- A lecture on tips for effective presentations is given early in the curriculum and students are graded on presentation skills throughout the program.
- The division of the A-level into AS and A2 stages has also increased the marking workload, as students are graded in both the first and second years of the course.
- We should grade students on effort, not ability.
- Berkeley students aren't getting written homework assignments because teachers are refusing to grade work on their own time after two years with no pay raise.
- He still has to be fair in grading his students, and he can lose his job if he doesn't do that.
- I require this evaluation form to be attached to the back of their project before I will grade their work.
- Any teacher completing these books will never again be able to grade student work without questioning how and why that grading is taking place.
- Each week, the teachers will grade the students - one will receive an A-grade making them top of the class.
- During the group lesson, each student was graded by both their peers and me on their success in reaching their musical goal for that group lesson.
- The government is also looking into replacing the Advanced Level exam with a system which would grade students on their work during the school year as well as in a sit-down exam.
- This paper also serves as a substantial writing component in which students are graded for both grammar and content.
- More reasonably, I'd grade the smaller class in four days, and the larger class in six days.
Synonyms
assess, mark, score, judge, evaluate, appraise
3no object Pass gradually from one level, especially a shade of color, into another.
（尤指色彩）从一个等级逐渐进入另一个等级
the sky graded from blue to white on the horizon
天空从镜头顶端的蓝色渐渐变成地平线上的白色。
Example sentencesExamples
- The anterior is sloping, broad, without wings or ear, the rear wing in contrast gradually grading into the posterior margin.
- Thus, deposition graded gradually from anoxic environments below the storm wave base to oxic environments above the storm wave base.
- If the hypotheses of this research are correct, then equivalencies in a judoist's throwing side preference will emerge as he or she grades to the elite level.
- In the fossil record, Neanderthals don't grade smoothly into Homo sapiens.
Synonyms
pass, shade, change, merge, blend, transmute, turn
4Reduce (a road) to an easy gradient.
（将路面）坡度减缓
Example sentencesExamples
- I have approached officials several times and a year ago they attempted to grade the road - the grader got stuck and they left the job incomplete.
- He said a grader from the Zambia National Service had been acquired to grade the roads which had not been serviced for a long time.
- Lodge explains that sonic sensors make grading a road much easier than with stakes.
- Hardware on the excavation equipment then uses that elevation map to control the blade height automatically in order to grade the site properly.
- The district has had to grade its roads in its quest to open up isolated villages to its administrative centre, Munyumbwe.
- He said his ministry would grade all feeder roads in readiness for the marketing season.
- There are well-laid, carefully graded paths for walking and for cycling, and some impressive looking recreation facilities.
- However, the city council has already started grading the roads to be tarred soon under the local government-financed road rehabilitation programme.
- This high desert area is dry in the summer when the Road Runners spend their time grading and graveling the roads.
- He told the ministries in charge of roads not to grade roads without consulting members of Parliament.
- Our first project after we graded the road was to dig a 10-acre-foot pond.
- The volunteers at the reserve regularly grade the road and make sure that it is accessible.
- The ability to shift the blade right and left comes in handy for slope and ditch work and for grading roads and parking lots.
- LSO series inclinometers are suitable for use in paving, grading, bridge leveling, and other applications.
- Norman got work as a roadman, clearing drains, grading roads and laying metal.
- Also, they must excavate to remove foundations and basements, and they must grade the site at the completion of the demolition job.
5Cross (livestock) with a superior breed.
（家畜）与优良品种杂交
Example sentencesExamples
- The low percentage of cattle grading choice is most likely explained by the aggressive implant program utilized in this study.

Phrases

at grade

On the same level.
〈北美〉在同一水平面上
the crossing at grade of two streets
两条街的平面交叉路口。
Example sentencesExamples
- The total distance of the metro line will be 36.50 km of which 29.15 km will be elevated, 0.65 km at grade and 6.70 km will be underground.
- Sharp said she decided to put the new plan forward because it became obvious Vancouver City council will not approve a light rail system built at grade through the city.
- This track crossed it at a diamond, one of the last such crossings at grade with streetcars.
- Planning requirements mean tall residential buildings have setbacks and open areas at grade, making the streetscape discontinuous and usually unpleasant.

make the grade

informal Succeed; reach the desired standard.
〈非正式〉成功；达到理想标准
Example sentencesExamples
- Only 600 establishments have made the grade and only those who surpass the high entry standards are eligible to compete for the national awards.
- Also, making the grade, education in America, our special report tonight on where the best and worst teachers in the country end up working and why.
- It is, of course, a big step up from playing regularly for the national Under-21 side to making the grade at full international level.
- His story is typical of many Asian doctors working in Scotland but, until now, such complaints have been dismissed by many as excuses for not making the grade.
- Now that it's clear how you deserve to be treated, what do you do if you decide a friendship isn't making the grade?
- She quickly made the grade for England and reached the quarter-finals of the world championships in Thailand last year.
- League tables released by the government today show that more pupils than ever scored five or more A - C grade GCSEs last year, with 51.5 per cent making the grade.
- We look at why America's schools aren't making the grade.
- The Indians came through the tough Olympic qualifying competitions before making the grade.
- It's our politicians' image and style that aren't making the grade in the new post modern politics.
Synonyms
come up to standard, come up to scratch, qualify, pass, pass muster, measure up, measure up to expectation

Origin

Early 16th century: from French, or from Latin gradus ‘step’. Originally used as a unit of measurement of angles (a degree of arc), the term later referred to degrees of merit or quality.

单词	grade
释义	Definition of grade in English: grade noun ɡreɪdɡreɪd 1A particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, or value. （等级、质量、熟练程度、强度或数值上的）级别 sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades 从级别上来说，海盐通常有粗盐和细盐之分。 in combination high-grade steel Example sentencesExamples Tensile fabric comes in different structural grades and colors. I'll have to use the finest grade of wet sandpaper. Use the finest grade of lime available at a reasonable price when surface applications are made. The one medicine that in every grade of society was valued above all others was Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Just be sure to use the gardening-grade perlite rocks and not the finer grade masonry-quality powder. A beeper and colored lights indicate the blade's position relative to the desired grade. There are four grades at this age level, A, B, C, D and the teams and supporters who make it to the finals turn it into a noisy wonderful occasion. And not just the fruit, for they used the flowers in botanical medicines as well as in making a red dye, and the bark of the plant was helpful in tanning the finest grades of leather. We stand ready to advise you on the period and particular hotels that will give best value for a specified grade of accommodation. But the part of the process I loved most was the hand polishing with increasingly fine grades of sand paper done under running water. Usually the finer grades are used in the rubbing process. Use steel wool or a fine grade of sandpaper to smooth out the affected area and an inch or two of the surrounding floor. The array of choices is dizzying, from different types of cows and grades of milk quality to the ability to breed hybrid vegetables. All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade. Synonyms category, class, classification, grouping, group, set, section, bracket, division, type, brand 1.1 A level in a salary or employment structure. （薪水或就业结构中的）等级 clerical and secretarial grades Example sentencesExamples Although most respondents were white collar staff, they covered a wide range of grades from office support staff to permanent secretary. We desperately need a culture that values teamwork at all grades in the profession. In the same year the Ministry lost 39 employees from the lower grades, including clerks, interpreters and recorders. The second grade would command the rank of major or lieutenant colonel. It said managers had been ranked into three grades, with the bottom 15 per cent losing their jobs. I think in order to build confidence and to ensure that black women are moving through ranks and grades, we need to have a positive action programme that analyses their particular needs. A few years later he became a pilot and rose through the ranks to management grade by the time he was 30. In central and local government, for example, the majority of employees in the lowest grades are women. The strikers want the abolition of salary anomalies between staff employed on different grades at universities. The following are the ranks and corresponding pay grades within the Army, from lowest to highest. Under the council's offer, many employees on middle salary grades will only receive lump-sum payments with no cost-of-living increase. The dispute centres on the implementation of a 35-hour week which would bring guards in line with most other grades of staff employed by the company. Collier outlined that equal pay within salary grades is enforced by the University. The automaker was accused of unfair bias in giving older, white male employees lower grades, raises and rates of promotion than young women and minorities. She also said employees on the same grade in different regions got paid different salaries for the same work, or the same salary for different hours. Following half a day of action in October and the threat of more strikes this week, management decided to reopen negotiations with a timetable to produce a system of pay grades by the end of February. The salary grades were framed according to different sports and the importance of each athlete to their team. We have to have a structure and grades, because of our size and we have to work within those. For example, there may be 10 salary grades (A to J) separated by increments of $1,000. The majority of employees are the lower clerical grades, i.e. Clerical Officers, Executive Officers and Higher Executive Officers. Synonyms rank, level, echelon, standing, station, position, placing, class, status, order stage, step, rung, rung on the ladder, notch, stratum, tier degree of proficiency, degree of quality, degree of merit 1.2British A level of importance allocated to a listed building. 〈英〉（对列入名单的建筑物按重要性进行的）分级 as modifier a Grade I listed building 一级建筑。 Example sentencesExamples The 18th century grade two listed building has stood empty for over a year, and twice the company's plans have been rejected, and twice they have withdrawn applications. They include the demolition of the grade II listed building and its conversion to a dental surgery with the necessary alterations. The grade two listed main hospital building has been designated for use for health care, which could see a doctors surgery or small hospital created inside. Inside the grade - 2 listed church, opened in 1871, demonstrations of various crafts will be taking place. The grade 1 listed Gothic mansion which will be home to Hirst's collection is believed to have been an inspiration for the Houses of Parliament. A planning application to refurbish and enlarge the grade two listed building was being submitted today in a bid to attract ‘big name’ stores to the town centre. I walked further down the corridor of our workplace that was a grade two listed building. Known as Ye Olde Whitechapel in the North, the grade II listed building, dates back to 1820 and is in urgent need of repair. Plans for the grade II-listed building and its surrounds include hotels, a theatre, cinema and flats. The seventeenth century grade II listed building was converted into a pub in the 1970s and the pub closed at the end of last year. The grade II listed building has lain derelict since it was sold off by the county council in the late 1980s.* Windows have been smashed and the grade II listed building has been covered in graffiti. The town hall is a grade II-listed building and English Heritage had voiced its concern about a previous plan, which would demolish the interior of the building. The Orangery, situated within the grade two-listed coach house, can cater for up to 16 delegates. Opponents said more traffic would be generated and that the car park would destroy the look of the grade II Listed hospital building. Now, more than 100 years after its troubled start, the grade II listed structure is to be brought back to its former glory. A project costing £498,000 to restore the grade two listed railway station and repair the original cast iron canopies on the station roof was under way. Nine years ago a newly-formed trust made a bid to take over the grade II listed building and turn it into a museum and writing centre. The grade II listed building has been restored to its former glory as part of a £180,000 project. Plans are afoot to hold nights of music and theatre in the grade one listed building. 1.3 (in historical linguistics) a relative position in a series of forms involving ablaut. （历史语言学）元音变换的相应位置 1.4Zoology A group of animals at a similar evolutionary level. 〔动〕（由一组处于相似进化程度的动物形成的）级 Example sentencesExamples Thecodontia therefore is an evolutionary grade of animals, rather than a clade. They argued that previous classifications failed to examine real lineages and tended to be based more on evolutionary grades. However, keep in mind that these are not clear evolutionary groups and probably represent a grade of organisms out of which the fern lineage emerged. The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates. Pelycosaur, therapsid, and mammal represent three evolutionary grades in a single progressive evolutionary axis. 2North American A mark indicating the quality of a student's work. 〈主北美〉（表明学生成绩的）分数 I got good grades last semester 上学期我得了高分。 Example sentencesExamples The students who take the course during their initial semester are making higher grades cumulatively. School records were used to obtain data on student grades and standardized test scores. Students whose grades fell below 3.0 in the previous school year attend Summer Academy in their home city, rather than the Summer Institute. It is kind of like paying teachers more when their students get higher grades. If the awards were based instead on, say, high-school grades, many students would respond by choosing easy courses where an A is guaranteed. And it would also revise its code of practice on how students' grades related to the marks they score in their exams. Teachers who hand out misleading grades thereby allow some students, already let down by a school system that has failed to prepare them adequately, to be blindsided. He found that students would achieve similar grades, whether or not they liked or enjoyed their teachers. Students with lower grades can still get into Southern if they score high enough on college-aptitude tests. He is also concerned that they have led to significant grade inflation because they are closely tied to the grades that students expect to receive. Teachers often tell students their grades out loud, so that each person knows what grade the others received. Minimum matriculation requirements are at least two pass grades and university courses for which there is not strong demand might accept students with these grades. Students compete for grades, they compete for awards, they compete for a place on the team. Students' grades are based primarily on teacher-designed or local tests, so the stakes for students are unclear. The students who received passing grades earned them. Under the admissions policy, 90 percent of students are accepted by grades and test scores alone. Most commonly, he says, students complain about grades and faculty grading practices. Brian noticed that students' grades were higher than those on previous unit quizzes. That is, the higher the students' grades in high school, the more likely they would persist to meet their educational goals in college. Yet it is mandatory that I give this student a grade; moreover, she herself wants an evaluation of her performance. Synonyms mark, score, grading, assessment, evaluation, appraisal 2.1 (with specifying ordinal number) those pupils in a school or school system who are grouped by age or ability for teaching at a particular level for a year. 〈北美〉（按学生年龄或受教能力划分的）年级 she teaches first grade 她教一年级。 Example sentencesExamples The average fifth grader read at a second grade level. It gives home computers to students in the 3rd grade and up. Students at all grade levels benefited from remedial summer school, but students in the earliest grades and in secondary school may benefit most. Students in the upper grades do an internship two afternoons every week. Yuntardi was confused when his daughter Sekar, a first grade elementary pupil, asked him to register her in a school tennis course. Only 7 percent of black children in the eighth grade read at a level of proficiency. In the ninth grade, 81 percent of females and males were participating in physical education. It is estimated that by the first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders, the majority of which have no known cause. This Act proposes that every student in grades 3 through 8 will be proficient in reading and math. After a while, it seemed obvious that he didn't have the same skill, he was paired with Dale for a lab in the 7th grade and history was made. Did I fail to mention that I failed the part where we had to identify animals in first grade? Students in higher grades scored better than students in lower grades. It is at the second grade reading level that you should begin monitor and track the areas of reading fluency and see a steady progress in the words per minute your child can read and comprehend. Beautiful weavings can be created by students in grades 3-6 with simple cardboard looms. Every year, the students in all grades of my elementary school do a papier-mache project. Synonyms class, form, study group, school group, set, stream, band year 2.2British An examination, especially in music. 〈英〉（尤指音乐的）考试 I took grade five and got a distinction 我参加了五级的考试并得了优良。 Example sentencesExamples After seeing one of their public performances, a woman approached Mark and Angela in the supermarket about her 11-year-old daughter Sarah at grade one on the saxophone. She received an A for her seventh grade (the second highest level) music exams. After her marriage, she appeared for the senior grade music examination in 1991 and passed it with distinction. 3North American A gradient or slope. 〈主北美〉梯度；斜坡 just over the crest of a long seven per cent grade 刚越过了一个长长的0.07度斜坡的山顶。 Example sentencesExamples I also noticed that the hill that the car rolled up was at a lower grade than the hill that the starting line was painted on. Clark points out that some applications, such as parking lots, have so many different grades and slopes that the use of a trimmer becomes almost impossible. While you're outside, check that the grade around the house slopes away from it. Myrna and David visited a hillside azalea garden in a nearby park to walk the trails and get a feel for the different grades of slope. That would be like loading up your car and driving it up in the mountains at a 6% grade all day every day. Road construction has changed the hill grade from 11.5 per cent to eight Synonyms slope, gradient, incline, acclivity, declivity, tilt, angle hill, rise, bank, ramp 4usually as modifier A variety of cattle produced by crossing with a superior breed. 与纯种杂交改良的牛 grade stock 改良的家畜。 Example sentencesExamples Research proved that U to E grade females give poor fertility and are poor milkers, two very important traits required for breeding. Indeed farmers with U grade stock have already reached the €2.94 / kg mark. Slightly lower grade stock, still of an acceptable quality, was then imported at a cheaper price from other parts of the world. Trade was stronger at the top for R4L grade heifers with nine factories paying over 93c/lb. Farmers should consider co-operating with friends and neighbours when selling R and U grade cows and thus add to their selling power. Farmers must first secure a reasonable price for the better quality cattle, which is the mainstay of specialist feeders, and then work this price back for the lower grade cattle. Of the 15 factories with the lowest percentage of R grade bullocks over a three month period, 12 were Munster-based. verb ɡreɪdɡreɪd [with object] 1Arrange in or allocate to grades; classify or sort. 按照级别安排或分配；分类 the timber is graded according to its thickness 它们是按厚度分类的。 Example sentencesExamples At the moment, 99.99% of the coffee beans grown in the area are mixed together, and the blemish-free ones are graded by size and shape. The items and places of interest are graded with an asterisk rating (from zero to three) and much helpful information is given to tourists. Under the king was a carefully graded hierarchy of officials, ranging from the governors of provinces down through local mayors and tax collectors. Voter education should extend to rating or grading the performance of an elected representative. Replies to the 87 questions are graded in three categories - agree, disagree and undecided. It's a gloomy prediction but what else are parents like us supposed to think when universities are graded according to their intake from the state sector and we have thrown in our lot with an independent school? They will become even more responsible if development in their constituencies is formally graded, ranked in order of merit and made public. If other teachers have been placed in the promised grade it simply means that even those on the Copperbelt will eventually be graded accordingly. Applications are graded in date order; the earlier you apply the better your chance of being rewarded. The survey broke each town into sites and graded each site accordingly. Under the plans, sites used by travellers could be graded according to how much impact they have on the local community. And Malmesbury Hospital was graded green in both categories, one of 81 hospitals to achieve that distinction. There are 16 classes of vehicle, graded by engine size and body-type. Performances are graded to compensate for size or population profile. Premises applying for a licence will face a one-off fee followed by an annual charge which will be graded according to the size and location of the bar or pub. In such circumstances, there being no threat to life or injury, the police response was graded accordingly. With the ultimate in timing equipment being installed drivers will be graded into four categories and awarded platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals once a year. Periodically, the oysters are graded for size and then put into bags of about 200, to be hardened. He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer. He said the mining centre would enable miners to add value to their stones by preparing knocking, sorting and grading their gemstones before selling them. Synonyms classify, class, categorize, bracket, sort, group, order, arrange, type, pigeonhole, brand, size rank, evaluate, rate, value, range, graduate, calibrate 2North American Give a mark to (a student or a piece of work). 〈主北美〉（给学生或作业）打分 Example sentencesExamples Of course there were differences because I graded the students in the university class, but not in the community class. Any teacher completing these books will never again be able to grade student work without questioning how and why that grading is taking place. The students are then graded on how well they adapt various stylistic aspects of the artist's work into their own. I'm not entirely comfortable with doing so, in part because I suspect much of the advice is particular to my class and how I grade exams. Obviously it's insane to spend more than fifteen minutes per paper/exam when grading a class of 100: just do the math! This paper also serves as a substantial writing component in which students are graded for both grammar and content. Linus worked 40 hours a week in the classroom and in the lab, and spent time preparing lessons and grading students papers in addition to his regular studies. A lecture on tips for effective presentations is given early in the curriculum and students are graded on presentation skills throughout the program. More reasonably, I'd grade the smaller class in four days, and the larger class in six days. Have the students divide the tasks up among themselves, but grade each student based on the work of the whole group. Each week, the teachers will grade the students - one will receive an A-grade making them top of the class. During the group lesson, each student was graded by both their peers and me on their success in reaching their musical goal for that group lesson. We should grade students on effort, not ability. Berkeley students aren't getting written homework assignments because teachers are refusing to grade work on their own time after two years with no pay raise. I require this evaluation form to be attached to the back of their project before I will grade their work. Students are graded on each discussion based upon their ability to find information on topics and their ability to support both sides of the argument in the paper that they write. The division of the A-level into AS and A2 stages has also increased the marking workload, as students are graded in both the first and second years of the course. The government is also looking into replacing the Advanced Level exam with a system which would grade students on their work during the school year as well as in a sit-down exam. To complete the course, the students are graded in a situational and field training exercise on all the above skills to determine whether they will qualify and graduate. He still has to be fair in grading his students, and he can lose his job if he doesn't do that. Synonyms assess, mark, score, judge, evaluate, appraise 3no object Pass gradually from one level, especially a shade of colour, into another. （尤指色彩）从一个等级逐渐进入另一个等级 the sky graded from blue at the top of the shot to white on the horizon 天空从镜头顶端的蓝色渐渐变成地平线上的白色。 Example sentencesExamples The anterior is sloping, broad, without wings or ear, the rear wing in contrast gradually grading into the posterior margin. Thus, deposition graded gradually from anoxic environments below the storm wave base to oxic environments above the storm wave base. If the hypotheses of this research are correct, then equivalencies in a judoist's throwing side preference will emerge as he or she grades to the elite level. In the fossil record, Neanderthals don't grade smoothly into Homo sapiens. Synonyms pass, shade, change, merge, blend, transmute, turn 4Reduce (a road) to an easy gradient. （将路面）坡度减缓 Example sentencesExamples This high desert area is dry in the summer when the Road Runners spend their time grading and graveling the roads. LSO series inclinometers are suitable for use in paving, grading, bridge leveling, and other applications. However, the city council has already started grading the roads to be tarred soon under the local government-financed road rehabilitation programme. The ability to shift the blade right and left comes in handy for slope and ditch work and for grading roads and parking lots. Our first project after we graded the road was to dig a 10-acre-foot pond. The volunteers at the reserve regularly grade the road and make sure that it is accessible. He said a grader from the Zambia National Service had been acquired to grade the roads which had not been serviced for a long time. Hardware on the excavation equipment then uses that elevation map to control the blade height automatically in order to grade the site properly. Lodge explains that sonic sensors make grading a road much easier than with stakes. The district has had to grade its roads in its quest to open up isolated villages to its administrative centre, Munyumbwe. He said his ministry would grade all feeder roads in readiness for the marketing season. He told the ministries in charge of roads not to grade roads without consulting members of Parliament. I have approached officials several times and a year ago they attempted to grade the road - the grader got stuck and they left the job incomplete. There are well-laid, carefully graded paths for walking and for cycling, and some impressive looking recreation facilities. Also, they must excavate to remove foundations and basements, and they must grade the site at the completion of the demolition job. Norman got work as a roadman, clearing drains, grading roads and laying metal. 5Cross (livestock) with a superior breed. （家畜）与优良品种杂交 Example sentencesExamples The low percentage of cattle grading choice is most likely explained by the aggressive implant program utilized in this study. Phrases at grade On the same level. 〈北美〉在同一水平面上 the crossing at grade of two streets 两条街的平面交叉路口。 Example sentencesExamples Sharp said she decided to put the new plan forward because it became obvious Vancouver City council will not approve a light rail system built at grade through the city. Planning requirements mean tall residential buildings have setbacks and open areas at grade, making the streetscape discontinuous and usually unpleasant. This track crossed it at a diamond, one of the last such crossings at grade with streetcars. The total distance of the metro line will be 36.50 km of which 29.15 km will be elevated, 0.65 km at grade and 6.70 km will be underground. make the grade informal Succeed; reach the desired standard. 〈非正式〉成功；达到理想标准 Example sentencesExamples She quickly made the grade for England and reached the quarter-finals of the world championships in Thailand last year. His story is typical of many Asian doctors working in Scotland but, until now, such complaints have been dismissed by many as excuses for not making the grade. It's our politicians' image and style that aren't making the grade in the new post modern politics. Now that it's clear how you deserve to be treated, what do you do if you decide a friendship isn't making the grade? Only 600 establishments have made the grade and only those who surpass the high entry standards are eligible to compete for the national awards. Also, making the grade, education in America, our special report tonight on where the best and worst teachers in the country end up working and why. The Indians came through the tough Olympic qualifying competitions before making the grade. We look at why America's schools aren't making the grade. League tables released by the government today show that more pupils than ever scored five or more A - C grade GCSEs last year, with 51.5 per cent making the grade. It is, of course, a big step up from playing regularly for the national Under-21 side to making the grade at full international level. Synonyms come up to standard, come up to scratch, qualify, pass, pass muster, measure up, measure up to expectation Origin Early 16th century: from French, or from Latin gradus 'step'. Originally used as a unit of measurement of angles (a degree of arc), the term later referred to degrees of merit or quality. A grade is literally a step from Latin gradus ‘step’, and was originally used in English as a unit of measurement, a use largely replaced by degree, from the same source. The word is also found in graduate (Late Middle English) ‘take a degree’, gradient (mid 19th century), gradual (Late Middle English) ‘done by degrees’, and degrade (Late Middle English). The expression to make the grade is an American expression from the early 20th century. Rhymes abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade noun.1 phr. Definition of grade in US English: grade nounɡrādɡreɪd 1A particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, intensity, or value. （等级、质量、熟练程度、强度或数值上的）级别 sea salt is usually available in coarse or fine grades 从级别上来说，海盐通常有粗盐和细盐之分。 grade AA butter Example sentencesExamples Use the finest grade of lime available at a reasonable price when surface applications are made. Tensile fabric comes in different structural grades and colors. Just be sure to use the gardening-grade perlite rocks and not the finer grade masonry-quality powder. The one medicine that in every grade of society was valued above all others was Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. All four semi-finalists will have the option of moving up to the lower tier of the new grade. Use steel wool or a fine grade of sandpaper to smooth out the affected area and an inch or two of the surrounding floor. The array of choices is dizzying, from different types of cows and grades of milk quality to the ability to breed hybrid vegetables. A beeper and colored lights indicate the blade's position relative to the desired grade. We stand ready to advise you on the period and particular hotels that will give best value for a specified grade of accommodation. And not just the fruit, for they used the flowers in botanical medicines as well as in making a red dye, and the bark of the plant was helpful in tanning the finest grades of leather. But the part of the process I loved most was the hand polishing with increasingly fine grades of sand paper done under running water. There are four grades at this age level, A, B, C, D and the teams and supporters who make it to the finals turn it into a noisy wonderful occasion. Usually the finer grades are used in the rubbing process. I'll have to use the finest grade of wet sandpaper. Synonyms rank, level, echelon, standing, station, position, placing, class, status, order category, class, classification, grouping, group, set, section, bracket, division, type, brand 1.1 A level in a salary or employment structure. （薪水或就业结构中的）等级 Example sentencesExamples The following are the ranks and corresponding pay grades within the Army, from lowest to highest. The automaker was accused of unfair bias in giving older, white male employees lower grades, raises and rates of promotion than young women and minorities. It said managers had been ranked into three grades, with the bottom 15 per cent losing their jobs. Although most respondents were white collar staff, they covered a wide range of grades from office support staff to permanent secretary. We desperately need a culture that values teamwork at all grades in the profession. For example, there may be 10 salary grades (A to J) separated by increments of $1,000. The strikers want the abolition of salary anomalies between staff employed on different grades at universities. The dispute centres on the implementation of a 35-hour week which would bring guards in line with most other grades of staff employed by the company. The majority of employees are the lower clerical grades, i.e. Clerical Officers, Executive Officers and Higher Executive Officers. In central and local government, for example, the majority of employees in the lowest grades are women. She also said employees on the same grade in different regions got paid different salaries for the same work, or the same salary for different hours. Collier outlined that equal pay within salary grades is enforced by the University. Following half a day of action in October and the threat of more strikes this week, management decided to reopen negotiations with a timetable to produce a system of pay grades by the end of February. I think in order to build confidence and to ensure that black women are moving through ranks and grades, we need to have a positive action programme that analyses their particular needs. In the same year the Ministry lost 39 employees from the lower grades, including clerks, interpreters and recorders. A few years later he became a pilot and rose through the ranks to management grade by the time he was 30. We have to have a structure and grades, because of our size and we have to work within those. Under the council's offer, many employees on middle salary grades will only receive lump-sum payments with no cost-of-living increase. The salary grades were framed according to different sports and the importance of each athlete to their team. The second grade would command the rank of major or lieutenant colonel. Synonyms category, class, classification, grouping, group, set, section, bracket, division, type, brand rank, level, echelon, standing, station, position, placing, class, status, order 1.2 (in historical linguistics) one in a series of related root forms exhibiting ablaut. （历史语言学）元音变换的相应位置 1.3Zoology A group of animals at a similar evolutionary level. 〔动〕（由一组处于相似进化程度的动物形成的）级 Example sentencesExamples Pelycosaur, therapsid, and mammal represent three evolutionary grades in a single progressive evolutionary axis. They argued that previous classifications failed to examine real lineages and tended to be based more on evolutionary grades. The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates. Thecodontia therefore is an evolutionary grade of animals, rather than a clade. However, keep in mind that these are not clear evolutionary groups and probably represent a grade of organisms out of which the fern lineage emerged. 2North American A mark indicating the quality of a student's work. 〈主北美〉（表明学生成绩的）分数 I got good grades last semester 上学期我得了高分。 Example sentencesExamples Yet it is mandatory that I give this student a grade; moreover, she herself wants an evaluation of her performance. Students whose grades fell below 3.0 in the previous school year attend Summer Academy in their home city, rather than the Summer Institute. Students with lower grades can still get into Southern if they score high enough on college-aptitude tests. And it would also revise its code of practice on how students' grades related to the marks they score in their exams. Teachers who hand out misleading grades thereby allow some students, already let down by a school system that has failed to prepare them adequately, to be blindsided. If the awards were based instead on, say, high-school grades, many students would respond by choosing easy courses where an A is guaranteed. Minimum matriculation requirements are at least two pass grades and university courses for which there is not strong demand might accept students with these grades. Students compete for grades, they compete for awards, they compete for a place on the team. The students who received passing grades earned them. School records were used to obtain data on student grades and standardized test scores. It is kind of like paying teachers more when their students get higher grades. He is also concerned that they have led to significant grade inflation because they are closely tied to the grades that students expect to receive. Brian noticed that students' grades were higher than those on previous unit quizzes. That is, the higher the students' grades in high school, the more likely they would persist to meet their educational goals in college. Under the admissions policy, 90 percent of students are accepted by grades and test scores alone. Teachers often tell students their grades out loud, so that each person knows what grade the others received. Students' grades are based primarily on teacher-designed or local tests, so the stakes for students are unclear. Most commonly, he says, students complain about grades and faculty grading practices. He found that students would achieve similar grades, whether or not they liked or enjoyed their teachers. The students who take the course during their initial semester are making higher grades cumulatively. Synonyms mark, score, grading, assessment, evaluation, appraisal 2.1 (with specifying ordinal number) those students in a school or school system who are grouped by age or ability for teaching at a particular level for a year. 〈北美〉（按学生年龄或受教能力划分的）年级 she teaches first grade 她教一年级。 Example sentencesExamples It gives home computers to students in the 3rd grade and up. After a while, it seemed obvious that he didn't have the same skill, he was paired with Dale for a lab in the 7th grade and history was made. Yuntardi was confused when his daughter Sekar, a first grade elementary pupil, asked him to register her in a school tennis course. It is estimated that by the first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders, the majority of which have no known cause. In the ninth grade, 81 percent of females and males were participating in physical education. Only 7 percent of black children in the eighth grade read at a level of proficiency. It is at the second grade reading level that you should begin monitor and track the areas of reading fluency and see a steady progress in the words per minute your child can read and comprehend. The average fifth grader read at a second grade level. Students in the upper grades do an internship two afternoons every week. This Act proposes that every student in grades 3 through 8 will be proficient in reading and math. Students in higher grades scored better than students in lower grades. Did I fail to mention that I failed the part where we had to identify animals in first grade? Beautiful weavings can be created by students in grades 3-6 with simple cardboard looms. Every year, the students in all grades of my elementary school do a papier-mache project. Students at all grade levels benefited from remedial summer school, but students in the earliest grades and in secondary school may benefit most. Synonyms class, form, study group, school group, set, stream, band 2.2British An examination, especially in music. 〈英〉（尤指音乐的）考试 I took grade five and got a distinction 我参加了五级的考试并得了优良。 Example sentencesExamples She received an A for her seventh grade (the second highest level) music exams. After her marriage, she appeared for the senior grade music examination in 1991 and passed it with distinction. After seeing one of their public performances, a woman approached Mark and Angela in the supermarket about her 11-year-old daughter Sarah at grade one on the saxophone. 3North American A gradient or slope. 〈主北美〉梯度；斜坡 just over the crest of a long seven percent grade 刚越过了一个长长的0.07度斜坡的山顶。 Example sentencesExamples I also noticed that the hill that the car rolled up was at a lower grade than the hill that the starting line was painted on. Myrna and David visited a hillside azalea garden in a nearby park to walk the trails and get a feel for the different grades of slope. Clark points out that some applications, such as parking lots, have so many different grades and slopes that the use of a trimmer becomes almost impossible. Road construction has changed the hill grade from 11.5 per cent to eight While you're outside, check that the grade around the house slopes away from it. That would be like loading up your car and driving it up in the mountains at a 6% grade all day every day. Synonyms slope, gradient, incline, acclivity, declivity, tilt, angle 4usually as modifier A variety of cattle produced by crossing with a superior breed. 与纯种杂交改良的牛 grade stock 改良的家畜。 Example sentencesExamples Farmers must first secure a reasonable price for the better quality cattle, which is the mainstay of specialist feeders, and then work this price back for the lower grade cattle. Indeed farmers with U grade stock have already reached the €2.94 / kg mark. Slightly lower grade stock, still of an acceptable quality, was then imported at a cheaper price from other parts of the world. Farmers should consider co-operating with friends and neighbours when selling R and U grade cows and thus add to their selling power. Of the 15 factories with the lowest percentage of R grade bullocks over a three month period, 12 were Munster-based. Trade was stronger at the top for R4L grade heifers with nine factories paying over 93c/lb. Research proved that U to E grade females give poor fertility and are poor milkers, two very important traits required for breeding. verbɡrādɡreɪd [with object] 1Arrange in or allocate to grades; class or sort. 按照级别安排或分配；分类 they are graded according to thickness 它们是按厚度分类的。 carefully graded exercises 仔细分类的练习。 Example sentencesExamples Under the plans, sites used by travellers could be graded according to how much impact they have on the local community. It's a gloomy prediction but what else are parents like us supposed to think when universities are graded according to their intake from the state sector and we have thrown in our lot with an independent school? In such circumstances, there being no threat to life or injury, the police response was graded accordingly. There are 16 classes of vehicle, graded by engine size and body-type. The items and places of interest are graded with an asterisk rating (from zero to three) and much helpful information is given to tourists. The survey broke each town into sites and graded each site accordingly. Under the king was a carefully graded hierarchy of officials, ranging from the governors of provinces down through local mayors and tax collectors. Replies to the 87 questions are graded in three categories - agree, disagree and undecided. Performances are graded to compensate for size or population profile. Applications are graded in date order; the earlier you apply the better your chance of being rewarded. Voter education should extend to rating or grading the performance of an elected representative. With the ultimate in timing equipment being installed drivers will be graded into four categories and awarded platinum, gold, silver and bronze medals once a year. At the moment, 99.99% of the coffee beans grown in the area are mixed together, and the blemish-free ones are graded by size and shape. Periodically, the oysters are graded for size and then put into bags of about 200, to be hardened. And Malmesbury Hospital was graded green in both categories, one of 81 hospitals to achieve that distinction. If other teachers have been placed in the promised grade it simply means that even those on the Copperbelt will eventually be graded accordingly. They will become even more responsible if development in their constituencies is formally graded, ranked in order of merit and made public. Premises applying for a licence will face a one-off fee followed by an annual charge which will be graded according to the size and location of the bar or pub. He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer. He said the mining centre would enable miners to add value to their stones by preparing knocking, sorting and grading their gemstones before selling them. Synonyms classify, class, categorize, bracket, sort, group, order, arrange, type, pigeonhole, brand, size 2North American Give a mark to (a student or a piece of work). 〈主北美〉（给学生或作业）打分 Example sentencesExamples Have the students divide the tasks up among themselves, but grade each student based on the work of the whole group. The students are then graded on how well they adapt various stylistic aspects of the artist's work into their own. Of course there were differences because I graded the students in the university class, but not in the community class. Linus worked 40 hours a week in the classroom and in the lab, and spent time preparing lessons and grading students papers in addition to his regular studies. I'm not entirely comfortable with doing so, in part because I suspect much of the advice is particular to my class and how I grade exams. Students are graded on each discussion based upon their ability to find information on topics and their ability to support both sides of the argument in the paper that they write. To complete the course, the students are graded in a situational and field training exercise on all the above skills to determine whether they will qualify and graduate. Obviously it's insane to spend more than fifteen minutes per paper/exam when grading a class of 100: just do the math! A lecture on tips for effective presentations is given early in the curriculum and students are graded on presentation skills throughout the program. The division of the A-level into AS and A2 stages has also increased the marking workload, as students are graded in both the first and second years of the course. We should grade students on effort, not ability. Berkeley students aren't getting written homework assignments because teachers are refusing to grade work on their own time after two years with no pay raise. He still has to be fair in grading his students, and he can lose his job if he doesn't do that. I require this evaluation form to be attached to the back of their project before I will grade their work. Any teacher completing these books will never again be able to grade student work without questioning how and why that grading is taking place. Each week, the teachers will grade the students - one will receive an A-grade making them top of the class. During the group lesson, each student was graded by both their peers and me on their success in reaching their musical goal for that group lesson. The government is also looking into replacing the Advanced Level exam with a system which would grade students on their work during the school year as well as in a sit-down exam. This paper also serves as a substantial writing component in which students are graded for both grammar and content. More reasonably, I'd grade the smaller class in four days, and the larger class in six days. Synonyms assess, mark, score, judge, evaluate, appraise 3no object Pass gradually from one level, especially a shade of color, into another. （尤指色彩）从一个等级逐渐进入另一个等级 the sky graded from blue to white on the horizon 天空从镜头顶端的蓝色渐渐变成地平线上的白色。 Example sentencesExamples The anterior is sloping, broad, without wings or ear, the rear wing in contrast gradually grading into the posterior margin. Thus, deposition graded gradually from anoxic environments below the storm wave base to oxic environments above the storm wave base. If the hypotheses of this research are correct, then equivalencies in a judoist's throwing side preference will emerge as he or she grades to the elite level. In the fossil record, Neanderthals don't grade smoothly into Homo sapiens. Synonyms pass, shade, change, merge, blend, transmute, turn 4Reduce (a road) to an easy gradient. （将路面）坡度减缓 Example sentencesExamples I have approached officials several times and a year ago they attempted to grade the road - the grader got stuck and they left the job incomplete. He said a grader from the Zambia National Service had been acquired to grade the roads which had not been serviced for a long time. Lodge explains that sonic sensors make grading a road much easier than with stakes. Hardware on the excavation equipment then uses that elevation map to control the blade height automatically in order to grade the site properly. The district has had to grade its roads in its quest to open up isolated villages to its administrative centre, Munyumbwe. He said his ministry would grade all feeder roads in readiness for the marketing season. There are well-laid, carefully graded paths for walking and for cycling, and some impressive looking recreation facilities. However, the city council has already started grading the roads to be tarred soon under the local government-financed road rehabilitation programme. This high desert area is dry in the summer when the Road Runners spend their time grading and graveling the roads. He told the ministries in charge of roads not to grade roads without consulting members of Parliament. Our first project after we graded the road was to dig a 10-acre-foot pond. The volunteers at the reserve regularly grade the road and make sure that it is accessible. The ability to shift the blade right and left comes in handy for slope and ditch work and for grading roads and parking lots. LSO series inclinometers are suitable for use in paving, grading, bridge leveling, and other applications. Norman got work as a roadman, clearing drains, grading roads and laying metal. Also, they must excavate to remove foundations and basements, and they must grade the site at the completion of the demolition job. 5Cross (livestock) with a superior breed. （家畜）与优良品种杂交 Example sentencesExamples The low percentage of cattle grading choice is most likely explained by the aggressive implant program utilized in this study. Phrases at grade On the same level. 〈北美〉在同一水平面上 the crossing at grade of two streets 两条街的平面交叉路口。 Example sentencesExamples The total distance of the metro line will be 36.50 km of which 29.15 km will be elevated, 0.65 km at grade and 6.70 km will be underground. Sharp said she decided to put the new plan forward because it became obvious Vancouver City council will not approve a light rail system built at grade through the city. This track crossed it at a diamond, one of the last such crossings at grade with streetcars. Planning requirements mean tall residential buildings have setbacks and open areas at grade, making the streetscape discontinuous and usually unpleasant. make the grade informal Succeed; reach the desired standard. 〈非正式〉成功；达到理想标准 Example sentencesExamples Only 600 establishments have made the grade and only those who surpass the high entry standards are eligible to compete for the national awards. Also, making the grade, education in America, our special report tonight on where the best and worst teachers in the country end up working and why. It is, of course, a big step up from playing regularly for the national Under-21 side to making the grade at full international level. His story is typical of many Asian doctors working in Scotland but, until now, such complaints have been dismissed by many as excuses for not making the grade. Now that it's clear how you deserve to be treated, what do you do if you decide a friendship isn't making the grade? She quickly made the grade for England and reached the quarter-finals of the world championships in Thailand last year. League tables released by the government today show that more pupils than ever scored five or more A - C grade GCSEs last year, with 51.5 per cent making the grade. We look at why America's schools aren't making the grade. The Indians came through the tough Olympic qualifying competitions before making the grade. It's our politicians' image and style that aren't making the grade in the new post modern politics. Synonyms come up to standard, come up to scratch, qualify, pass, pass muster, measure up, measure up to expectation Origin Early 16th century: from French, or from Latin gradus ‘step’. Originally used as a unit of measurement of angles (a degree of arc), the term later referred to degrees of merit or quality. noun.1 phr.
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