I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grade a test ( also mark a test British English )
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I spent the day marking tests.
grade crossing
grade point average
grade school
O grade
repeat a class/grade/year (= do the same class at school again the following year )
Standard Grade
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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Competition for entry to these programs is keen, and applicants need above-\#average grades to gain admission.
different
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The results are exquisite-moving from ballads and other composed pieces through different grades of abstraction to total collective improvisation.
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He liked the different grades of sandpaper; he liked useful things.
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For example, there may be different conditions for different grades of staff.
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What are ranges in cost for different grades and different types of packaging? 8.
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But there are different grades of interference.
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I started out as a buck private and served in five different enlisted grades before becoming an officer.
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The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades .
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This filter contains three sheets of different grade open-cell foam on the top, with Flocor filling the base.
good
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But quality teas, the best grade , have hardly changed at around 200p a kilogramme.
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To get a better grade the student must take it from one of the students above by out-performing him or her.
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She graduated with very good grades and went on to graduate school.
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Kim's good grades in school plummeted.
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I would go and get good grades .
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Might the university expect better grades than they asked for previously?
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They sing at good grades and sag at bad ones.
high
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The higher grades of employee were supplied, as was the custom with many firms, with shiny, new company cars.
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Despite this tragedy, she graduated with the second highest grade point average in her high school.
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In the high grade group, none of the variables or different modes of treatment influenced mortality.
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Total copper production rose 5 percent because of higher ore grades at and increased output at Escondida.
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Why did the right hon. Gentleman not decide to have a higher grade environmental impact assessment?
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The carbon in pulp process uses higher grade ore which is crushed, milled and mixed with chemical solutions in large tanks.
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This ratio was 0.78 in the high grade group.
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Nor do they reward young people who take harder courses or earn higher grades .
low
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Many of these routes would get a lower E grade if Friends, nuts and chalk were used.
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Can students sue teachers for giving them low grades ?
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Colds and fevers are of a low grade , not violent.
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The better quality carcasses are fatter, more juicy, and more flavourful than carcasses of the lower grades .
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All cases were regarded according to a classification of Isaacson etal into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue.
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The lower three grades are seldom sold as retail cuts but are used instead in making hamburger and meat food products.
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On admission here, he had a low grade pyrexia, bilateral pleural effusions, and moderate smooth hepatomegaly.
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Anna said they are the ones who score low grades and throw spitballs in class.
standard
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From 1986 it was replaced by Standard grade .
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Sandra Chalmers provides a workable set of stimulating games which cover the content area of Standard grade courses.
top
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A good three-quarters of Mr Singleton's production falls into the top two grades but he believes he can improve on that.
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Both performances would rate in the top grade at schools level.
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Gillingham marina offers top grade facilities without the South Coast price tag.
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Sedgemore has improved so much since entering top grade rugby that club coach Alex Evans is tipping him for international honours.
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Second, I had to pass all my examinations with top grades .
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The proportion of women in the top three grades has almost doubled in the past four years.
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They pride themselves on providing a top grade service and have done everything form cleaning ocean-going liners to baby-sitting chinchillas.
■ NOUN
crossing
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The figure could also be reduced by concentrating on those grade crossings where the benefit relative to cost is greatest.
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The city and its suburbs have some 2, 000 public grade crossings , 268 with whistle bans.
dysplasia
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It can be argued that the finding of high grade dysplasia without cancer should be considered to be a success of surveillance.
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Thus, follow up of patients with low grade dysplasia found one cancer in 223 patient years.
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Four of the patients who had low grade dysplasia previously were negative for dysplasia at colectomy.
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Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens.
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If high grade dysplasia was found, repeat biopsies were performed within six months.
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Surgery was performed in cases of persistent high grade dysplasia , or carcinoma.
investment
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The erosion of investment grade credits, though, would raise the stakes for banks.
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Bancomext securities will receive an investment grade rating because of the structure.
point
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Despite this tragedy, she graduated with the second highest grade point average in her high school.
school
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Across the hall, a group of twenty grade school children are at work in two connected rooms.
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In grade school Gary had served as an altar boy.
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And they were the ones who taught the next generation from grade school up.
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Many read at only grade school levels.
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The local grade school and the high schools and the nearby universities exist.
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Every one of these children who has started grade school has finished high school, Phyllis says.
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In grade school , she wrote them herself and begged people to read her creations.
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By 1990, District 4 boasted 21 junior high schools , plus six alternative grade schools.
■ VERB
achieve
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Nearly 90 % of candidates achieved A-E grades at A-level this year.
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I've seen my daughter work continually over the past two years - and I mean work - to achieve her grades .
fail
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I normally sell it straight off the combine for malting, or feed if it fails to make the grade .
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After 1975, the grades were changed to A to E, with, in theory, no fail grades.
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A two, a failing grade , would mean being kept back a year, to study with smaller children.
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And what happened if you failed to make the grade ?
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The federal government has graded the San Francisco housing authority at only four points above a failing grade, said Brown.
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But not only Cii-Honeywell Bull failed to make the grade .
get
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Many of these routes would get a lower E grade if Friends, nuts and chalk were used.
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She says she got her grades , she's very shocked!
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The test results were in and only his urine got a passing grade .
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But for some, who didn't get the grades they hoped for, there's abject misery.
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It was as useless as trying to get kidnapped in second grade .
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To get a better grade the student must take it from one of the students above by out-performing him or her.
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I would go and get good grades .
make
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Then the firm are given one year to make the grade .
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Downtown News, so we know the pharmacists there make the journalistic grade .
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It decided me that I wasn't going to be good enough to make the grade .
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A handful of dramas make the grade but the sitcoms are failing miserably.
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It became an aloof, lonely personal fight to make the grade .
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Durham deliver PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks.
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The best strategy is to have small males who stick like glue on the rare occasions when one makes the grade .
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That was why she was making the grade as a jockey.
pass
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The test results were in and only his urine got a passing grade .
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We emerged from the first two big rapids with one passing grade and one failing.
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Ciao Italia more than passed the grade on this one.
read
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Forty percent of all recruits who enter the armed forces every year read at eighth grade level or below.
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Many read at only grade school levels.
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The fifth one scarcely reads at sixth grade level.
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Half the heads of households classified below the poverty line by federal standards can not read an eighth grade book.
receive
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Most workers, for example, receive the craftsman's grade , which is 10 percent above the minimum.
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While Jeb Bush received a 56 percent grade , President Bush earned a 52 percent approval rating from respondents.
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Meanwhile, Footless Crow receives a strange grade of E5.
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Many of their parents would say so, since they receive low grades .
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Having tutored himself at home, Paul received an A grade for A-level computer studies when he was 16.
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Bancomext securities will receive an investment grade rating because of the structure.
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These boys receive low grades because they fail to turn in assignments.
teach
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Which gave me time to attend to Sister Mary teaching the second grade and learn their lessons as well.
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This is because Miss McFawn used to teach first grade where they did nothing but put on plays.
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Allison, 24, is married and teaching fourth grade in Houston.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mission/cost/grade etc creep
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It is a case of mission creep gone wildly over the top.
skip a year/grade
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He was a good enough student to skip a grade in elementary school and later scored 1280 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Grade A beef
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a low-grade fever
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a steep grade
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Class participation is a quarter of your final grade .
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I need a really good grade on the final exam to pass the class.
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I really liked my eighth grade math teacher.
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I wasn't very happy with the grade on my essay.
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If he gets good enough grades he'll get a scholarship to Michigan State.
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She's in the fifth grade .
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The pay scale is based on grade and length of service.
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The second grade class is doing a play about the Pilgrims.
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The seventh grade is taking a trip to Minneapolis next week.
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weapons-grade nuclear material
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What grade are you in?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A third group of mixed grade was recognised in 11 patients with low grade who also had occasional areas of high grade.
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All grades are wholesome but U. S. Grade A is assigned to products which are of uniform size and free of blemishes.
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But quality teas, the best grade , have hardly changed at around 200p a kilogramme.
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Had he completely closed him-self off in the fourth grade ?
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My years at Sacred Heart, kindergarten through the middle of third grade , were a blur.
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The yield of beef carcasses varies according to the yield grade from about 80 percent for Yield Grade No.
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Trainees are paid on Clinical Scientist grade A, which is currently £9,239 p.a. increasing by annual increments.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
school
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At first it feels like high school , then junior high, and finally grade school.
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Lynette, Deborah, and Doreen, all in eighth grade in public school .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mission/cost/grade etc creep
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It is a case of mission creep gone wildly over the top.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the fruit is taken to the warehouse where it is graded and packed.
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Beef is graded on the basis of its fat content.
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I spent the weekend grading tests.
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One supermarket now grades its wines on a scale of 1 to 9, from driest to sweetest.
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The hillsides must be graded to prevent erosion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above this level, the contribution is graded, with contributions ceasing on incomes above £325 a week.
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Although pork is not graded extensively, graded carcasses can be ordered.
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Because various factors determine the thickness of egg white, eggs from different flocks are graded separately.
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No matter who you are, you grade out just fine on the Schott curve.
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Plutonium is graded by its isotopic composition.
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The worms can be graded according to size, simply by shaking the harvested worms in some water in a small bottle.