grade
noun/ɡreɪd/
Слово англійською: grade
Переклад grade українською: клас (у́чні), оці́нка (у шко́лі), початко́ва шко́ла, ранг, ступінь
Детальний опис
- a mark given in an exam or for a piece of school work
- (British English) She got good grades in her exams.
- (North American English) She got good grades on her exams.
- 70 per cent of students achieved Grade C or above.
Wordfinder- candidate
- exam
- grade
- invigilate
- mark
- oral
- paper
- practical
- resit
- revise
- (in the US school system) one of the levels in a school with children of similar age
- Sam is in (the) second grade.
- the quality of a particular product or material
- All the materials used were of the highest grade.
- a level of ability or rank that somebody has in an organization
- salary/pay grades (= levels of pay)
- She's still only on an entry grade.
- (specialist) how serious an illness is
- low/high grade fever
- (especially North American English) (also gradient British and North American English)a slope on a road or railway; the degree to which the ground slopes
- The hill has a grade of 25 per cent.
- We hiked up a short steep grade.
- (British English) a level of exam in musical skill
- grade 6 piano
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin gradus ‘step’. Originally used as a unit of measurement of angles (a degree of arc), the term later referred to degrees of merit or quality.
Idioms
be above/beyond somebody's pay grade
- to be a decision or an area of work that somebody does not have the authority or expert knowledge to deal with
- This decision is above my pay grade.
make the grade
- (informal) to reach the necessary standard; to succeed
- About 10 per cent of trainees fail to make the grade.