grader
English
A road grader.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪdɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪdə/
- Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
Noun
grader (plural graders)
- A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces.
- Synonyms: motor grader, road grader
- 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
- The blade-grader is a long steel-framed carriage under which is fixed a steel blade capable of being tilted at various angles: its principal use is in trimming cutting-slopes.
- A machine used to sort food by size or quality.
- One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
- the graders of a school examination
- (in combination) One who belongs to a certain grade at school.
- a first-grader
Derived terms
- 10th grader
- 11th grader
- 12th grader
- 13th grader
- 1st grader
- 2nd grader
- 3rd grader
- 4th grader
- 5th grader
- 6th grader
- 7th grader
- 8th grader
- 9th grader
- eighth grader
- eleventh grader
- fifth grader
- first grader
- fourth grader
- ninth grader
- reserve grader
- second grader
- seventh grader
- sixth grader
- tenth grader
- third-grader
- third grader
- thirteenth grader
- twelfth grader
Translations
machine
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one who grades or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated
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one who belongs to a certain grade at school
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