Definition of Grades

1. Noun. (plural of grade) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of grade) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grades

1. grade [v] - See also: grade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grades

grade inflation
grade insignia
grade on a curve
grade point
grade point average
grade school
grade schools
grade separation
graded
gradeless
gradelier
gradeliest
gradely
grader
graders
grades (current term)
gradewide
gradgrind
gradgrinds
gradian
gradians
gradience
gradient
gradient elution
gradient encoding
gradient perception
gradient wind
gradientless
gradients
gradin

Literary usage of Grades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"In the Department of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, the average length of stay of Helpers during the years 1908-09 in the grades from $180 to $360 was 90 ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The results are, therefore, given in grades. The value of one of these grades is somewhat uncertain, but is not far from a tenth of a magnitude, ..."

3. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1916)
"CHAPTER IV PROBLEMS OF ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL THE GROUPING OF grades The present grouping of grades is first of all ..."

4. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1922)
"THE VALIDITY OF THE WHIPPLE GROUP TEST IN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH grades HELEN DAVIS Director of Measurements and Special Education, Jackson, Michigan Among ..."

5. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1905)
"The intermediate grades are a neglected field in educational theory and practice. Primary work has received a great deal of attention, and the upper grades ..."

6. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"In examinations and grades we attempt to determine individual ... It is quite possible that the assigning of grades to school children and college students ..."

7. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"The lines and grades of sewers are sometimes run out in the same way as those described for curbstones. The stakes or spikes (in hard paving) are set on an ..."

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