Index of English words, starting with "gr"

(1) - Grade (n.) A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
(2) - Grade (v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
(3) - Grade (v. t.) To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
(4) - Grade (v. t.) To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
(5) - Grade (n.) 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.
(6) - Grade (n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
(7) - Grade (n.) 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.
(8) - Grade (n.) 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.

(1) - Grader (n.) One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

(1) - Gradient (n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
(2) - Gradient (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
(3) - Gradient (n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
(4) - Gradient (a.) Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
(5) - Gradient (a.) Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
(6) - Gradient (a.) Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.

(1) - Gradin (n.) Alt. of Gradine