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Definition of grade

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Grade (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..

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Citigrade :: Citigrade (a.) Pertaining to the Citigradae.

Degrade :: Degrade (v. i.) To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera..

Ascent :: Ascent () The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees..

Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat..

Uncardinal :: Uncardinal (v. t.) To degrade from the cardinalship.

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc..

Second :: Second (n.) An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour..

Gradate :: Gradate (v. t.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

Coryphodon :: Coryphodon (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant..

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign..

First-rate :: First-rate (n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.

Congo :: Congo (n.) Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea..

Stationer :: Stationary (n.) One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion..

Brand :: Brand (v. t.) A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour..

Centigrade :: Centigrade (a.) Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10¡ centigrade (or 10¡ C.)..

Plantigrade :: Plantigrade (a.) Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.

Sheik :: Sheik (n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade..

Voodooism :: Voodooism (n.) A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism..

Order :: Order (n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order..