Dictionary entry
Make the grade
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
[IDM ] (infml ) သတ်မှတ်အဆင့်မီသည်။
Definition
grade / greÇd / n ၁။ အဆင့္အတန္း။ အမ်ဳိးအစား။ a person's salary grade (ie level of pay) ❍ high-/ low-grade officials/ materials ❍ the lowest grade of agricultural land. ၂။ (က) အဆင့္။ Pupils with 90% or more are awarded Grade A. ❍ She got excellent grades in her exams. (ခ) (ဂီတ) ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈအဆင့္။ He's got Violin Grade 6 (ie has passed a test at that level of skill). ၃။ ( US ) အတန္း(သို႔) စာသင္ႏွစ္။ go up/ down a grade. ၄။ ( esp US ) = GRADIENT ၁ v ၁။ ~ sth/ sb by / according to sth; ~ sth/ sb from sth to sth (esp passive) (အရည္အေသြး၊ အမ်ဳိးအစား၊ အရြယ္ စသည္အလိုက္) အုပ္စုခြဲသည္။ graded tests for language students ❍ The potatoes are graded by/ according to size. ❍ Eggs are graded from small to extra-large. ❍ a hotel graded as four-star (ie luxury) accommodation. ၂။ ( esp US ) အဆင့္သတ္မွတ္သည္။ The term papers have been graded. ❍ A student who gets 90% is graded A. ၃။ (ေျမကို) ညိႇသည္။ The trees were planted in the newly graded bank. ❏ grade crossing n ( US ) = LEVEL CROSSING ❏ grade school n ( US ) = PRIMARY SCHOOL ❏ make the grade [ IDM ] ( infml ) သတ္မွတ္အဆင့္မီသည္။ bout 10% of trainees fail to make the grade.
Examples
- Their wool is suitable for finer grades of cloth.
- Top grade tennis rackets
- You need to improve your grades.
- [get/gain/obtain a grade] : I got a Grade 2 for art.
- The technical and professional grades have become more open to women.
- He demanded to be put on a higher grade.
- The topic is covered in the seventh grade.
- Eighth grade students