grade
English
/ɡɹeɪd/
noun
Definitions
- A rating.
- (chiefly) The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- (North America) A level of primary and secondary education.
- (Canada) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- The level of the ground.
- (mathematics) A gradian.
- (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
Etymology
Borrowed from French grade (a grade, degree) derived from Latin gradus (degree, step, pace, a step, a station, a step in a ladder stair, position) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰradʰ-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aggrade English
- bigrade English
- centigrade English
- decigrade English
- disgrade English
- downgradable English
- downgrade English
- downgrader English
- food English
- food-grade English
- gradability English
- gradable English
- gradably English
- gradee English
- gradeless English
- gradelessness English
- grader English
- gradewide English
- intergrade English
- intergrader English
- intragrader English
- midgrade English
- milligrade English
- misgrade English
- monograde English
- multigrade English
- non-gradable English
- orthograde English
- out English
- outgrade English
- overgrade English
- pay English
- paygrade English
- quadrigrade English
- regrade English
- reupgrade English
- subgrade English
- undergrade English
- ungradable English
- upgradability English
- upgradable English
- upgradation English
- upgrade English
- upgrader English
- *dēgradus Latin
- gradatim Latin
- gradus Latin
- graduālis Latin
- Grad German
- grádus Hungarian
- Grado Italian
- grado Italian
- upgraden Dutch, Flemish
- décigrade French
- dégrader French
- grade French
- апгрейд Russian
- гра́дус Russian
- градус Russian
- грейдер Russian
- grado Spanish, Castilian
- *gʰradʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰredʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- grad Norwegian Bokmål
- upgrade Portuguese
- *gridiz Proto-Germanic
- グレード Japanese
- upgrade Polish
- grad Norwegian Nynorsk
- grad Old English
- degré Old French
- gré Old French
- altgrada Esperanto
- altgrade Esperanto
- grade Esperanto
- grado Esperanto
- grau Catalan, Valencian
- grao Galician
- grad Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- گریدر Persian
- เกรด Thai
- gradd Welsh
- graet Middle Dutch
- grado Ido
- grád Old Irish
- Sentigrado Tagalog
- градус Bulgarian
- 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 Gothic
- 업그레이드 Korean
- out
- pay
- food
- gradee
- grader
- upgrade
- bigrade
- aggrade
- regrade
- misgrade
- gradably
- midgrade
- upgrader
- disgrade
- outgrade
- subgrade
- gradable
- paygrade
- gradeless
- reupgrade
- gradewide
- downgrade
- decigrade
- overgrade
- monograde
- orthograde
- undergrade
- ungradable
- intergrade
- upgradable
- multigrade
- centigrade
- food-grade
- downgrader
- milligrade
- intergrader
- intragrader
- upgradation
- gradability
- quadrigrade
- non-gradable
- downgradable
- gradelessness
- upgradability