SG Heritage Dictionary

Grade [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A degree or rank in order or dignity, civil, military or ecclesiastical.

2. While questions, periods, and grades and privileges are never once formally discussed.

3. A step or degree in any ascending series; as crimes of every grade

4. When we come to examine the intermediate grades.

Grade [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. 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.

3. A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.

4. 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.

5. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

Grade [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Graded [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Grade

Gradely [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Decent; orderly.

Gradely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Decently; in order.

Grader [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

Degree Roget’s Thesaurus §26

N. degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch, reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber, gradation, shade, tenor, compass, sphere, station, rank, standing, rate, way, sort, point, mark, stage, intensity, strength

Adj. comparative, gradual, shading off, within the bounds

Adv. by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto, however, howsoever, step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop, a little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by little and little, in some degree, in some measure, to some extent, di grado in grado, 2, comparative quantity

Arrangement Roget’s Thesaurus §60

N. arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter

V. reduce to order, bring into order, introduce order into, rally, arrange, dispose, place, form, put in order, set in order, place in order, set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal, cast the parts, assign the parts, dispose of, assign places to, assort, sort, sift, riddle, put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array, apportion, class, classify, divide, file, string together, thread, register, catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade, methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix, unravel, disentangle, ravel, card, disembroil, feaze

Adj. arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic

Phr. "in vast cumbrous array"

Term Roget’s Thesaurus §71

N. term, rank, station, stage, step, degree, scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch, stand, standing, footing, range

V. hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place, 3, collective order

Learner Roget’s Thesaurus §541

N. learner, scholar, student, pupil, apprentice, # prentice, journeyman, articled clerk, beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur, abecedarian, alphabetarian, alumnus, eleve, recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer, seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner, debutant, intern, resident, schoolboy, fresh, freshman, frosh, junior soph, junior, senior soph, senior, sophister, sophomore, questionist, undergraduate, graduate student, law student, medical student, pre-med, post-doctoral student, post-doc, matriculated student, part-time student, night student, auditor, class, grade, seminar, form, remove, pupilage, disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte, fellow-student, condisciple, school

V. learn, practise

Adj. in statu pupillari, in leading strings

Phr. practise makes perfect