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grader

[ grey-der ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that grades.
  2. a pupil of a specified grade at school:

    a fourth grader.

  3. a machine for grading.


grader

/ ˈɡreɪdə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that grades
  2. a machine, either self-powered or towed by a tractor, that levels earth, rubble, etc, as in road construction
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grader1

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; grade + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Over the next couple of years, Payne developed one of the first AI ethics curricula for middle graders, and her master’s thesis helped inform another set of interactive lessons, called “How to Train Your Robot.”

In 2012, as a 10th grader, Lean says he recorded his first legitimate song, “Hurt.”

Jeff Foxworthy, host of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

In 2012 a St. Louis school cafeteria worker, Dianne Brame, was fired for giving food to a fourth-grader who had no money.

The context of you being a mixed-up, hormone-addled seventh-grader when you read it, alone in your bedroom.

At least that is what he told a second-grader at a townhall last February.

Joining the line two or three miles down the valley, he found a track-grader's tool hut and went in and smoked.

As already mentioned, a machine frequently found in wholesale plants is the separator, or grader.

The motive power for the elevating grader is either a tractor or five or six teams of mules.

When the wagon is loaded, the grader is stopped while the loaded wagon is hauled out and an empty one drawn into position.

Generally four mules are hitched to a pusher in the rear of the grader and six or eight in the lead.

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