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grade
Noun
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A grade is a letter or number that you use to show how good something is. Usually, teachers use it to show how good a student's test or assignment is.
He got 97% on his test. It was the top grade in the class.
Our restaurant uses only the highest grade of meat.
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In North American English, a grade is the school year.
Most Canadian children start grade one when they are six years old and finish grade 12 when they are 18.
grade
Verb
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If you grade something, you judge how good it is.
After the final exam, the teacher spent the whole weekend grading papers.
My friends goes to the farm to grade animals that are going to be sold.
range
Noun
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A range of mathX/math is a number of different kinds of mathX/maths
We offer you a whole range of clothes, from socks to hats.
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The range is area between an upper and lower limit.
Most accidents affect children in the seven to 10 age range.
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Something's range is the distance that it can travel.
The company's newest airplane has a range of 10,556km.
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In statistics, the range of results is highest result minus the lowest result.
The test results in the study had a range of 63; the highest was 100 and the lowest 37.
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A (mountain) range is a group of mountains.
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A shooting range is a place to practice using a gun.
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A range is a large grassy area for farm animals to walk about freely.
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A range is a large stove for cooking.
range
Verb
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If something ranges from mathX/math to mathY/math, it includes a number of different things and mathX/math and mathY/math are different examples of those.
The police had stopped him for a variety of things ranging from stealing a book to having a gun.
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If something ranges around an area, it moves around it.