Definitions for gradable
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
gradegreɪd(n.; v.)grad•ed, grad•ing.
(n.)a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity.
a class of persons or things of the same relative rank, quality, etc.
a step or stage in a course or process.
a single division of a school classified, usu. by year.
Category: Education
the pupils in such a division.
Category: Education
grades, elementary school (usu. prec. by the).
Category: Education
a letter, number, or other symbol indicating the relative quality of a student's work; mark.
Category: Education
a classification or standard of food based on quality, size, etc.:
grade A milk.
Category: Cooking
inclination with the horizontal of a road, railroad, etc.; slope.
Category: Civil Engineering, Railroads, Transportation
the level at which the ground intersects the foundation of a building.
Category: Building Trades
an animal resulting from a cross between a parent of ordinary stock and one of a pure breed.
Category: Animal Husbandry
(v.t.)to arrange in a series of grades; class; sort:
a machine that grades eggs.
to determine the grade of.
to assign a grade to (a student's work); mark.
Category: Education
to cause to pass by degrees, as from one color or shade to another.
to reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination:
to grade a road.
Category: Civil Engineering
to cross (an ordinary or low-grade animal) with an animal of a pure or superior breed.
Category: Animal Husbandry
(v.i.)to incline; slant or slope.
to be of a particular grade or quality.
to pass by degrees, as from one color or shade to another; blend.
Idioms for grade:
at grade, on the same level:
a railroad crossing a highway at grade.
Category: Idiom, Railroads
make the grade, to attain a specific goal; succeed.
Category: Idiom
up to grade, of the desired or required quality.
Category: Idiom
Origin of grade:
1505–15; < F: office < L gradus step, stage, degree, der. of gradī to go, step, walk
grad′a•ble
-grade
a combining form meaning “walking, moving,” in the manner or by the means specified by the initial element:
plantigrade.
Category: Affix
Origin of -grade:
< L -gradus, comb. form repr. gradus step or gradī to walk. See grade , gradient
Princeton's WordNet
gradable(adj)
capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.)
Wiktionary
gradable(Noun)
A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.
gradable(Adjective)
Able to form degrees or grades.
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