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- English Word Grade Definition 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.
- English Word Grade Definition 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.
- English Word Grade Definition A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
- English Word Grade Definition 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.
- English Word Grade Definition To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
- English Word Grade Definition To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
- English Word Grade Definition To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
- English Word Grade Definition A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- English Word Graded Definition of Grade
- English Word Gradely Definition Decent; orderly.
- English Word Gradely Definition Decently; in order.
- English Word Grader Definition One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
- English Word Gradient Definition Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
- English Word Gradient Definition Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
- English Word Gradient Definition Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
- English Word Gradient Definition The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
- English Word Gradient Definition A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
- English Word Gradient Definition The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
- English Word Gradin Definition Alt. of Gradine
- English Word Gradine Definition Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.