Tra từ grade - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

grade UK US [greɪd] noun countable [ grades ]

LEVEL

1. <A > a level of quality, size, importance, etc
• He's suffering from some kind of low-grade (= slight) infection, which he can't seem to get rid of.
• There's some really high-grade (= high quality) musicianship on this recording.
• Bill has been UK on/US at the same grade (= his job has been of the same level of importance, or he has had the same level of pay) for several years now.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Quality and standard
2. <A > a number or letter that shows how good someone's work or performance is
• Steve never studies, but he always gets good grades.
• UK Carla got a grade A in German.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Marks and results

• Sally's a grade above me.
• She's got nine GCSEs, all at grade A.
• He has attained the highest grade in his music exams.
• Jonathon Hill achieved grade A passes at A-level.
• Whether I go to university or not is dependent on what exam grades I get.

SCHOOL

3. <A > US a school class or group of classes in which all the children are of a similar age or ability
• Jackie is in the sixth grade.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Classes, courses and coursework

• She starts in the third grade this September.
• Pupils takes exams in the fourth and sixth grades.
• They were in the same grade at school.
• Students in the eighth grade have the chance to go on an exchange visit to France.
• He teaches maths to the third grade.

SLOPE
4. US for gradient
• The next hill has a real steep grade.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Describing angles, lines and orientations
Idiom: make the grade

verb transitive
1. to separate people or things into different levels of quality, size, importance etc
• The fruit is washed and then graded by size.
• The books are graded according to the difficulty of the language.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Classifying and creating order
2. US ( UK mark ) to give a score to a student's piece of work
• to grade work/papers
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Analysing and evaluating ↑Assessing and estimating value