word-vault/dist/data/cards/gr/grade.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "grade",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a mark given in an exam or for a piece of school work",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She got good grades in her exams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She got good grades on her exams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "70 per cent of students achieved Grade C or above."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an A-grade essay"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I need to improve my grades."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She got a failing grade for that assignment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The oral exam constitutes 10 per cent of the final grade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The proportion of students getting A grades is up."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["final", "A", "B"],
                "verb + grade": ["achieve", "attain", "earn"],
                "phrases": ["grade point average"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "(in the US school system) one of the levels in a school with children of similar age",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sam is in (the) second grade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He skipped a grade so he finished high school early."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My son will be starting third grade this fall."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He moved up three grades in just a year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These topics are suitable for seventh grade."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["sixth", "third", "etc."],
                "verb + grade": ["enter", "start", "complete"],
                "grade + noun": ["level", "school"],
                "preposition": ["in… grade"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the quality of a particular product or material",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All the materials used were of the highest grade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a piece of high grade building land"
                },
                {
                    "text": "low grade steel"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Grade A beef"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a piece of top grade beef"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "top", "low"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a level of ability or rank that somebody has in an organization",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "salary/pay grades *(= levels of pay)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's still only on an entry grade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was offered a job at a lower grade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The majority of staff are on the same grade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "large pay increases for senior grades"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the people on management grades"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The higher grades within the organization usually get bigger pay rises."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "senior", "junior"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the… grade", "on a/​the… grade"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "how serious an illness is",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**low/high grade** fever"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a slope on a road or railway; the degree to which the ground slopes",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)British and North American English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The hill has a grade of 25 per cent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We hiked up a short steep grade."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a level of exam in musical skill",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "grade 6 piano"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be a decision or an area of work that somebody does not have the authority or expert knowledge to deal with",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This decision is above my pay grade."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to reach the necessary standard; to succeed",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "About 10 per cent of trainees fail to make the grade."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡreɪd/",
                "audio": "gr/grade/grade__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡreɪd/",
                "audio": "gr/grade/grade__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin gradus ‘step’. Originally used as a unit of measurement of angles (a degree of arc), the term later referred to degrees of merit or quality."
}