grade

Definition

  • noun: a level of study that is completed by a student during one year
  • noun: a position in a scale of ranks or qualities
  • verb: to give a grade to (a student or a student's work)
  • verb: to arrange in 'grades'
  • synonyms: sort, acclivity, adjust

Examples

  • ('US') I got a good 'grade' on my math test. = ('Brit') I got a good 'grade' in my maths test.

  • Many people apply for these positions, but only a few 'make the grade'.

  • How would you 'grade' your meal on a scale from one to five?

Movie quotes

  • (..) A merchant owns two stores. ln one, he sells fruit. Be seated. Professor... the auditors taking the exam for the grade school diploma. Silence! Rotten little stinker. - Toto, help me. - Silence! l can't do this damn thing. (..)
    1988 Cinema Paradiso
  • (..) Tall, thin, jolly, with a nice moustache like me. Always smiling. A lot like Clark Gable. Now that l'm older and go to fifth grade... l don't say l should come in the booth... but can't we at least be friends? ''l choose my friends for looks, (..)
    1988 Cinema Paradiso