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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.
[1913 Webster]

2. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent,
as the line of a canal or road.
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3. (Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to
improve the blood of.
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graded \graded\ adj.
1. ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of
graded difficulty.

Syn: ordered, ranked.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. leveled and drained but not paved; -- of roads.

Syn: graveled.
[WordNet 1.5]