gradeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

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. (chiefly Canada, 米国用法) The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

   Synonym: mark

   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, 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

• e-grade
• gradient
• o-grade
• zero-grade

派生した語

• → Japanese: グレード (gurēdo)

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. (chiefly Canada, 米国用法) To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
2. (chiefly Canada, 米国用法) 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