n. 等级, 年级, 阶段, 成绩, 程度, 坡度, 斜坡

vt. 分等, 分级, 评分

vi. 属于某等级, 逐渐变化

[医] 级

[经] 等级, 品位

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.

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.


Grade \Grade\ (gr[=a]d), n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace,
grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. {Congress}, {Degree},
{Gradus}.]
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.

They also appointed and removed, at their own
pleasure,
teachers of every grade. --Buckle.

2. In a railroad or highway:
(a) 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.
(b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a
road; a gradient.

3. (Stock Breeding) 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.

{At grade}, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a
railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are
on the same level at the point of crossing.

{Down grade}, a descent, as on a graded railroad.

{Up grade}, an ascent, as on a graded railroad.

{Equating for grades}. See under {Equate}.

{Grade crossing}, a crossing at grade.

improved \improved\ adj.
1. advanced to a more desirable or valuable or excellent
state. Opposite of {unimproved}. [Narrower terms: {built,
reinforced}; {cleared, tilled ; {developed}; {grade ;
{graded, graveled ] Also See: {restored}.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. changed for the better; as, her improved behavior.

Syn: amended.
[WordNet 1.5]