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grade

(grād)

1. A stage or degree in a process.

2. A position in a scale of size, quality, or intensity: a poor grade of lumber.

3. An accepted level or standard.

4. A set of persons or things all falling in the same specified limits; a class.

a. A level of academic development in an elementary, middle, or secondary school: learned fractions in the fourth grade.

b. A group of students at such a level: The third grade has recess at 10:30.

c. grades Elementary school.

6. A number, letter, or symbol indicating a student's level of accomplishment: a passing grade in history.

7. A military, naval, or civil service rank.

8. The degree of inclination of a slope, road, or other surface: the steep grade of the mountain road.

9. A slope or gradual inclination, especially of a road or railroad track: slowed the truck when he approached the grade.

10. The level at which the ground surface meets the foundation of a building.

11. A domestic animal produced by crossbreeding one of purebred stock with one of ordinary stock.

12. Linguistics A degree of ablaut.

v. grad·ed, grad·ing, grades

v.tr.

1. To arrange in grades; sort or classify: How is motor oil graded?

a. To determine the quality of (academic work, for example); evaluate: graded the book reports.

b. To give a grade to (a student, for example).

3. To level or smooth to a desired or horizontal gradient: bulldozers graded the road.

4. To gradate.

5. To improve the quality of (livestock) by crossbreeding with purebred stock.

v.intr.

To change or progress gradually: piles of gravel that grade from coarse to fine.

[French, from Latin gradus; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.]

grad′a·ble adj.

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gradable

(ˈɡreɪdəbəl)

adj

1. capable of being graded

2. (Linguistics) linguistics denoting or relating to a word in whose meaning there is some implicit relationship to a standard: 'big' and 'small' are gradable adjectives.

(Linguistics) linguistics a word of this kind

ˌgradaˈbility, ˈgradableness n

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gradable - capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.)

hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical - classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"

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(171) In that case, Marshall observed that "[a] thing may be necessary, very necessary, absolutely or indispensably necessary." (172) Because the term "admits of all degrees of comparison," Marshall continued, attention to "context" is necessary to determine whether the term is best read in a "rigorous" or "more mitigated sense." (173) A difference worth mentioning, however, is that Marshall's reasoning probably supports the more modest thesis that appeal to context is necessary to determine whether "necessary" is used literally or, as he put it, "figuratively]" (174)-- insofar it is not obviously felicitous to say that something is "more necessary" than something else, that "necessary" is a gradable adjective is at least controversial.

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