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initialism
- General Education Diploma. A substitute for a high school diploma, for people who dropped out of high school or were homeschooled.
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| grade |
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noun
- A rating.
- I gave him a good for effort.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- This fine- coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- ''The of this hill is more than 5 percent
- A level of pre-collegiate education
- Clancy is entering the fifth this year.
- An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
- The level of the ground.
- This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below .
verb (grades, grading, graded)
- To score an academic test.
- To assign a score to overall academic performance.
- To flatten and even out or smooth a large surface.
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noun - A method of computing a numerical value for letter grades received in school by assigning each a numeric value and average, averaging the numbers.
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| grader |
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noun (plural: graders)
- A machine used in construction for flattening large surfaces
- One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
- One who belongs to a certain grade at school.
- ''A first .
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| grade school |
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noun
- An elementary school or primary school.
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| graduand |
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noun
- A university student who has completed the requirements for, but has not yet been awarded, a particular degree.
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| graduate |
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noun - a person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution
- (context, US) a person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school
verb (graduat, ing)
- (intransitive) to be recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution
- (context, intransitive, US) to be recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school
- (intransitive) to become a graduate, such as at a ceremony of graduation or commencement
- (context, transitive, ergative) to certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- (transitive) to mark a scale on (something) so that it can be used for measuring
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| grammar school |
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noun
- (archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
- (context, mostly UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
- elementary school, Elementary school.
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