gradeとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪd/
• 異形同音異義語: grayed, greyed
• 韻: -eɪd

名詞

grade (複数形 grades)

1. A rating.

   I gave him a good grade for effort.

2. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

   He got a good grade on the test.

   This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.

3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
   • 1986–2012, paul wheaton permaculture, “Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat!”, in richsoil.com‎^[1], retrieved 2014-03-17:

     There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff!
     
     Make sure that you get food grade diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth.

4. A slope (up または down) of a roadway or other passage

   The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.

5. (Canada, 米国用法, education) A level of primary and secondary education.

   Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.

   Clancy starts grade five this year.

6. (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).

   The grade fives are on a field trip.

7. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
8. The level of the ground.

   This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.

9. (mathematics) A gradian.
10. (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
11. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
    • 1836, John Greenleaf Whittier, “Mogg Megone, A Poem”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name), OCLC 2722314:

      The whistle of the shot as it cuts the leaves / Of the maples around the church’s eaves— / And the gride of hatchets, fiercely thrown, / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.

12. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
13. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.

同意語

• (taxon that is not a clade): paraphyletic group

関連する語

• gradient
• mark

動詞

grade (三人称単数 現在形 grades, 現在分詞 grading, 過去形および過去分詞形 graded)

1. To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
2. To assign a score to overall academic performance.
3. To organize in grades.

   a graded reader

4. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
5. (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
6. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 34:

     And there were circles even beyond these – […] humanity grading and drifting beyond the educated vision, until no earthly invitation can embrace it.

派生語

アナグラム

• Adger, Degar, EDGAR, Edgar, Gerda, garde, radge, raged