Graded
['ɡredɪd]
Definition
(adj.) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; 'stratified areas of the distribution' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Grade
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Examples
- The raw materials for the open-hearth furnaces are received on elevated railroad tracks graded and piled preparatory to sending to the furnaces. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here the rubber markets are located and here the rubber is carefully examined, graded, boxed and shipped to New York or Liverpool. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They had not been graded, but the paving had been done on the natural surface. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Its first use was as a symbol in the code by which vessels were graded in the register of shipping kept by Lloyd’s, the originators of marine insurance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It has to be broken up into portions, as it were, and assimilated piecemeal, in a gradual and graded way. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Pasteur obtained in inoculations of graded virulence, which could be adm inistered hypodermically, a means of prophylaxis after bites. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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