Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that grades, especially.
- noun One who grades students' work.
- noun A piece of heavy equipment used to level or smooth roads or other surfaces to the desired gradient.
- noun A student in a specified class in an elementary, middle, or secondary school. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which grades.
- noun A heavy plow or an earth-scraper used in throwing up an embankment or in making a permanent way.
- noun A grain-separator or -sorter. See
separator .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
- noun A vehicle used for levelling earth, esp. one with a plow blade suspended from the center, used specifically for grading roads.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A machine used in construction for flattening large surfaces
- noun One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
- noun One who belongs to a certain
grade at school.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a judge who assigns grades to something
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Examples
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
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I mentioned on an earlier thread that typing “teleprompter” into the Fox Nation search box yeilds 1,310 articles – mostly slamming Obama … yet Sarah writing on her hand like a first grader is pefecty acceptable?
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Fub I seriously doubt that the average 7th grader is quite as computer savvy as you assume.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor 2010
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
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Taylor Cabrera, a twelfth-grader, is an activist who went to Washington to educate himself and his peers so they can be part of democracy in action.
Alan Singer: Pablo's Kids March on Washington Alan Singer 2010
slumry commented on the word grader
Hey, R--this is a left-hand word!
July 18, 2007