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

  • (..) - - Him? - Do you know him? - Yeah. We were on the same lunch shift when I was in ninth grade, and he would always save the most random, weird things. And then one day, he was just, like, gone. And then Connie Cardullo told me that his (..)
    1999 American Beauty