grader

[ grey-der ]

/ ˈgreɪ dər /

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noun

a person or thing that grades.

a pupil of a specified grade at school: a fourth grader.

a machine for grading.

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Origin of grader

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; grade + -er¹

Words nearby grader

grade inflation, gradely, grademark, grade point, grade point average, grader, grade school, grade-schooler, grade separation, gradient, gradienter

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How to use grader in a sentence

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.”
Want ethical AI? Hand the keys to middle schoolers.|Sarah Scoles|November 21, 2021|Popular-Science
In 2012, as a 10th grader, Lean says he recorded his first legitimate song, “Hurt.”
The Cult of Yung Lean: ‘I’m Building An Anarchistic Society From the Ground Up’|Marlow Stern|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Jeff Foxworthy, host of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Why Game-Show Hosts Vote Republican|Rebecca Dana|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 2012 a St. Louis school cafeteria worker, Dianne Brame, was fired for giving food to a fourth-grader who had no money.
Government Has Made America Inept|Philip K. Howard|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The context of you being a mixed-up, hormone-addled seventh-grader when you read it, alone in your bedroom.
Lifetime’s ‘Flowers in the Attic’ Review: The Incest Is There, The Strange Magic Is Not|Andrew Romano|January 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At least that is what he told a second-grader at a townhall last February.
Turns Out Chris Christie Hated Traffic on the George Washington Bridge, Too|David Freedlander|January 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Joining the line two or three miles down the valley, he found a track-grader's tool hut and went in and smoked.
Northwest!|Harold Bindloss
As already mentioned, a machine frequently found in wholesale plants is the separator, or grader.
All About Coffee|William H. Ukers
The motive power for the elevating grader is either a tractor or five or six teams of mules.
American Rural Highways|T. R. Agg
When the wagon is loaded, the grader is stopped while the loaded wagon is hauled out and an empty one drawn into position.
American Rural Highways|T. R. Agg
Generally four mules are hitched to a pusher in the rear of the grader and six or eight in the lead.
American Rural Highways|T. R. Agg

British Dictionary definitions for grader

grader

/ (ˈɡreɪdə) /

noun

a person or thing that grades

a machine, either self-powered or towed by a tractor, that levels earth, rubble, etc, as in road construction

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