Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Graded"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grade \Grade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Graded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Grading}.]
1. To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size,
quality, rank, etc.
2. To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent,
as the line of a canal or road.
3. (Stock Breeding) To cross with some better breed; to
improve the blood of.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
graded
adj 1: arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas
of the distribution" [syn: {ranked}, {stratified}]
2: (of roads) leveled and drained but not paved [syn: {graveled}]
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