GRADED

graded, ranked, stratified

(adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; “stratified areas of the distribution”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

graded

simple past tense and past participle of grade

Adjective

graded (comparative more graded, superlative most graded)

Having been smoothed by a grader.

Forming a series decreasing or increasing in intensity of a given quality.

Anagrams

• Edgard, dradge, gadder, garded, radged

Source: Wiktionary

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GRADE

Grade, n. Etym: [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. Congress, Degree, Gradus.]

1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. Buckle.

2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.

3. (Stock Breeding)

Definition: The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing.

– Down grade, a descent, as on a graded railroad.

– Up grade, an ascent, as on a graded railroad.

– Equating for grades. See under Equate.

– Grade crossing, a crossing at grade.

Grade, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Graded; p. pr. & vb. n. Grading.]

1. To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

2. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

3. (Stock Breeding)

Definition: To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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