grade
verb/ɡreɪd/
/ɡreɪd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they grade | /ɡreɪd/ /ɡreɪd/ |
| he / she / it grades | /ɡreɪdz/ /ɡreɪdz/ |
| past simple graded | /ˈɡreɪdɪd/ /ˈɡreɪdɪd/ |
| past participle graded | /ˈɡreɪdɪd/ /ˈɡreɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form grading | /ˈɡreɪdɪŋ/ /ˈɡreɪdɪŋ/ |
- (especially North American English) to give a grade to a student or to a piece of their written work
- grade somebody/something I spent all weekend grading papers.
- grade somebody/something + noun The best students are graded A.
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationb2- I don't think he graded our essays fairly.
- Who grades the students?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fairly
- objectively
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- [usually passive] to arrange people or things in groups according to their ability, quality, size, etc.
- be graded (by/according to something) The containers are graded according to size.
- be graded from… to… Eggs are graded from small to extra large.
- Responses were graded from 1 (very satisfied) to 5 (not at all satisfied).
- be graded (as) something Ten beaches were graded as acceptable.
- be graded for something The grammar exercises are graded for difficulty.
Extra Examples- The containers are graded by size.
- The timber is graded according to its thickness.
- a series of modern stories carefully graded for beginner to intermediate students
- finely graded nuances of language
- The attacks were graded as mild, moderate or severe.
- The gems are then graded by quality.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- carefully
- finely
- according to
- by
- from… to…
- …
Word Originearly 16th cent.: 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.
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