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Graded   /grˈeɪdəd/  /grˈeɪdɪd/   Listen
verb
Grade  v. t.  (past & past part. graded; pres. part. 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) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.


adjective
graded  adj.  
1.
Ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of graded difficulty.
Synonyms: ordered, ranked.
2.
Leveled and drained but not paved; of roads.
Synonyms: graveled.





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"Graded" Quotes from Famous Books



... supplied to the rest were poor scraps. There was the same difference in his wine, which was of three kinds. The intention was not to offer a choice, but to prevent the right of refusing. One kind was for himself and us; another for his less important friends (for his friends are graded); another for his and our freedmen. My next neighbour noticed this, and asked me if I approved of it. I said 'No!' 'Well,' said he, 'what is your own practice?' 'I treat every one alike, for I invite people to a dinner, not to an insult, and when they share my table I let them share everything.' ...
— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker
... completed to the Red River, a distance of about two hundred and thirty-three miles from the above-named city. Quite a number of miles of iron had been laid at the time of our late visit, and as many more miles graded; with half a thousand men actively engaged in forwarding ...
— Minnesota; Its Character and Climate • Ledyard Bill
... of fresh troops in the donga below, and he consequently set about shelling it. Mac's regiment departed for the trenches at this juncture, and so missed the excitement. They kept along the shore for a short distance, then turned to the right, and started straight up the steep, narrow badly-graded paths towards the more or less flat summit, where they were to relieve an infantry battalion. The sun was hot, and the way was steep, not to mention the weighty burden of equipment. The cool sea drew farther away as they soared gradually skywards, panting and perspiring. ...
— The Tale of a Trooper • Clutha N. Mackenzie
... varieties shall be graded over a screen which measures 1-7/8 inches in the clear. For long white varieties a screen of 1-3/4 inches, in ...
— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various
... lighted with electricity, has a gravity water system, and all the machinery for doing all the business naturally coming to a town [Page 59] of its size. It has a fine high school and graded schools, churches, newspapers, banks, warehouses, big stocks of goods, ...
— A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 • Ithamar Howell


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