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

Word History and Origins

Origin of grader¹

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

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.”

From Popular-Science

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The 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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg