grade

grade has 21 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
• n.. The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.
• n.. A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
• n.. The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.
• v. t.. To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
• v. t.. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
• v. t.. To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
• n.. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
• n.. a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
• n.. the gradient of a slope or road or other surface; "the road had a steep grade"
• n.. a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"
• n.. the height of the ground on which something stands; "the base of the tower was below grade"