gradable

grade  (grd)

n.

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.

5.

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 steps or degrees.

2. To arrange in a series or according to a scale.

3.

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).

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

5. To gradate.

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

v.intr.

1. To hold a certain rank or position.

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

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

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grada·ble adj.

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gradable [ˈgreɪdəb^əl]

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

n

(Linguistics) Linguistics a word of this kind

gradability , gradableness n

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Adj.

1.

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"