'Up grade' definitions:
Definition of 'Up grade'
From: GCIDE
- Grade \Grade\ (gr[=a]d), n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. Congress, Degree, Gradus.]
- 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. [1913 Webster]
- They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. --Buckle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. [1913 Webster]
- At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing.
- Down grade, a descent, as on a graded railroad.
- Up grade, an ascent, as on a graded railroad.
- Equating for grades. See under Equate.
- Grade crossing, a crossing at grade. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Up grade'
- At grade,
- Down grade,
- Grade,
- Graded,
- Gradely,
- Grading,
- Equating for grades,
- Grade crossing,
- grade insignia,
- grade point,
- grade school,
- grade separation,
- graded graveled,
- low grade,
- make the grade,
- technical grade,
- commercial-grade,
- grade point average,
- grade-appropriate,
- grade-constructed,
- high-grade,
- junior-grade,
- lieutenant junior grade,
- low-grade,
- technical-grade,
- top-grade,
- utility-grade,
- weapons-grade,
- field-grade officer,
- weapon-grade plutonium