(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.
(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.
(n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.
(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.
(v. t.) To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.
(v. t.) To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
(v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
(n.) A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
Example Sentences:
(1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(3) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(4) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(5) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
(6) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(7) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
(8) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(9) Expression of AR was compared with that of ER and PR as well as with tumour grade and age.
(10) Results showed significantly higher cardiac output in infants with grade III shunting than in infants with grade 0 and grade I shunting.
(11) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(12) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(13) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(14) The sensitivity of 75 non-CNS solid tumors to mismatched dsRNA was compared to the high-grade astrocytomas in the HTCA.
(15) This study concludes that grade is the greatest predictor of survival, with only 37% of grade 3 patients surviving at 5 years.
(16) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
(17) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(18) Contrary to expectations, low SES was not associated with greater levels of hyperglycemia or grades of retinopathy.
(19) The overall prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was found to be 81.8%, while 31.8, 44.1, 5.7 and 0.2% of children had Grades I, II, III and IV PEM, respectively.
(20) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
Regrade
Definition:
(v. i.) To retire; to go back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects then used one of three treatment regimens, were retested for accumulated plaque and regraded.
(2) In Wales, the education minister, Leighton Andrews, ordered the WJEC exam board to regrade Welsh students' English papers.
(3) After 30 minutes, a second injection of placebo or naloxone was given, and the patient was regraded a third time.
(4) Challenged on whether he or anyone else should do anything to restore or change the grades achieved by pupils in England in June, Gove said: "If we were to regrade, or firstly if I were to instruct Ofqual or exam boards to regrade, I would destroy the independence of the regulator.
(5) Michael Gove has condemned the "irresponsible and mistaken" decision of the Welsh education minister, Leighton Andrews, to intervene in the disputed GCSEs grades by ordering a regrading exercise.
(6) Both the location and the dimensions of the wound as well as the breaking strength of the injured muscles remained inside such narrow limits that the trauma can be regraded as constant.
(7) Areas identified by others as area 3a should probably be regraded as parts of area 3b.
(8) The regulator insisted it would be inappropriate for either of the sets of exams to be regraded.
(9) Five minutes later, the same observer regraded the patient.
(10) The documents set out their case for a regrading of GCSE English papers taken by pupils this summer.
(11) Two thousand 300 students who took exams set by the Welsh exam board WJEC in Wales have already been regraded on the orders of the Welsh government, which regulates exams set there.
(12) There has been, as Guy Standing remarks in The Precariat , an orgy of regrading and redefining jobs as less skilled so that they qualify for lower wages; there has also been a growing confidence that employers do not need to pay higher wages in every annual wage round.
(13) The alliance is demanding Ofqual , the exam regulator in England, orders a regrade or face moves to force a judicial review in the high court.
(14) The women accepted a pay increase, still less than the men, but the regrading issue was not resolved until after another strike years later, in 1984, when they were finally classified as skilled workers.
(15) All cases were regraded according to a classification of Isaacson et al into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.
(16) There was no difference between SLE and progressive polyarthritis as regrads the cold precipitation of rheumatoid factors.
(17) The common misconception of Norrie's disease being regraded as microphthalmia or hereditary corneal dystrophy instead of phthisis is noted.
(18) All lesions were regraded blind and twice by two pathologists.
(19) If a restructuring is essential, neither they nor I can see any reason why Marie and her colleagues shouldn’t have their jobs regraded and their pay preserved.
(20) It is being brought by an alliance of pupils, schools, councils and professional bodies, who want the students regraded after the boundary for a grade C in GCSE English was raised between January and June.